Hello again :-D
Sorry for the long wait, but I have been away working all weekend.. :-/ And thanks for even more
welcome's.. Also from Finland, and Germany.. I have some "C-Body friends" in both countries.. Daniel B. in Germany, and Jarmo (The best looking 300 Hurst I've seen), in Finland.. Maybe you know them ?
I would like to comment a little on the "dishonest part" of my post, that I was probably just as "gullible a buyer", as he was "a dishonest seller", but that said, he DID actually end up cheating me for some cash money, as I asked him to buy and include some of the parts that obviously would need replacement, and I seem to remember something about suddenly no more email communication, despite about 400 USD left of 1000 extra transferred.. but that's PEANUTS compared to what happened later.
Well, I'd better get on with the story about "The adventures of wreck "...
Before it was sent of, it had several other nicknames. The first one was probably "The Fire Engine".. This one, partly because it was very, very red at first, and partly because the horn went of by itself sometimes, and probably also because I kept the "burnt look" pretty much untouched...
...and the last reason, was probably because it caught fire again... twice!
First time, was shortly after "the blue harness" was installed... This was not a real fire, but just smoke and some "finger burns". It was caused by a short, and because the horn relay was totally crazy after the first fire.
(FRIENDLY ADVISE TO ALL PEOPLE RESTORING FIRE DAMAGED CARS... PLEASE DO NOT ONLY REPLACE ALL WIRES, BUT ALSO
ALL RELAYS).
Apparently, the horn relay was also damaged in the fire, but I never really thought of replacing it.. It looked OK, it was not my first priority to honk, especially not, as it actually worked fine and honked when asked to, BUT as mentioned above, I noticed that the horn would "self-activate" sometimes... most often at night, around 03.00 - 04:00 in the morning... so I had to get up, and run out to activate the horn button, and/or turn the lights on and off a couple of times, to get it to shut up. Never did I anticipate, what that relay had in store for me next.
One night.. around 3, it went off again.. MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.. so I got up and ran to the carport as usual.. but today was a bit different... Coz there it was.. not only honking away happily.. BUT now with all lights on.. and I mean ALL.. turn indicators (not flashing, but lit), back-up, interior, dash.. everything with a bulb, was lit up.. and thick white smoke was oozing out from under the dash, and engine compartment... so I jumped in the car, coughing like a madman, burning my fingers while pulling out wires and relays from under the dash, until it finally stopped.
It was cold, and I was only wearing boxer shorts, and since there were very bad light in the carport, I went back to bed.. (to process my smoke inhalation).. but the next morning, I could see, that wires coming to and from the horn relay, were all melted, and subsequently melted OTHER wires in the harness, who then sorted, and melted even more wires, until the whole car lit up, like it was Christmas.
Second time, was a nice summer day, after I completed a left turn, i noticed light smoke, and flames licking up between the hood and windshield.. At this point, I had installed a emergency fuel pump switch (two coiled up wires, tied to the buddy seat bracket, ha ha), so the fire was almost dead, at the time I got the hood up.. but still, the repeated stories of fire, eventually became the name. It turned out, that one of those fuel-filters, with chrome end studs, and a glass cylinder between, had come undone, and leaked fuel out on the motor. When I later tried to tighten this, it turned out that the thread was "bad" in the receiving cap, so it was discarded and replaced with a non-transparent metal one. Hurrah for China parts!
But the "Fire Engine" name was about to change again.. The next name, had something to do with the failed restoration in Poland. From Copenhagen, there is a ferry, sailing to Swinoujscie in Poland.. And as the C-Body is a huge car and the restoration experience went SO wrong, you could almost taste the next name.
I gotta go do some work, but will return today, and at least get us to Poland.. :-D
PS: I edited my last post a bit, as there were some typos.. and somehow, it also seems like some of my "spaces" between words, disappear when posting..? Strange.. I hope it wont happen again!