{"id":3665,"date":"2009-05-04T21:55:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T04:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giuliettas.com\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2009-05-04T21:55:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T04:55:35","slug":"i-guess-this-is-ti-tidy-up-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/2009\/05\/04\/i-guess-this-is-ti-tidy-up-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"I guess this is TI tidy-up part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

I couldn’t sleep last night. I worked hard on the TI Sunday until 8pm and got inspired to fix it up and then when I tried to go to sleep I kept thinking about what I needed to do to put it together. Well, after dragging my tired, I-only-got-2-hours-of-sleep butt around the office I simply had to stop off at the shop on my way home to do at least a little something to the TI since I spent all night trying to get it out of my head.
\n\"TI<\/a>The shop engine hoist came back from a service call so I put it to work and pulled the engine out while no one was looking.\u00a0 PO had 1 nut holding the engine in.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"TI<\/a>There were some shop mates about so I rolled the car out onto the car wash slope and set to.\u00a0 Tomorrow I buy some black bed liner and get rid of the gray in the engine compartment.\u00a0 I sanded it with wet or dry 120 so it should come out okay.
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\"TI<\/a>The wires and all look pretty scary, but if you trace them one at a time, fixing them up goes pretty quick.\u00a0 That light spot on the fender is missing paint.\u00a0 One of the tie rod ends was loose and the steering box was loose.\u00a0 Once I tightened it all up it was easy to push around.\u00a0 I didn’t find any stress cracks in the front suspension mount sheetmetal which is rare.
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\"img_8379\"<\/a>Is the drivers side the starboard side?\u00a0 Not sure.\u00a0 Note the exquisite key scratch that manages to go over the fuel door.\u00a0 Awesome.\u00a0 That dent below it happened while I had this thing up for sale.\u00a0 Do I pull the fuel tank and pop it out.\u00a0 I’ll flip a coin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"img_8380\"<\/a> The best looking rear end of a car ever?\u00a0 Quite possibly.\u00a0 We bought that Italia sticker in Rome on our Honeymoon.\u00a0 I know… how romantic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"img_8381\"<\/a>Looking better, much much better.\u00a0 I think I will get some touch up paint for the areas the PO ground off.\u00a0 Looks good no?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"img_8382\"<\/a>There was at least 5 different colors of overspray on this poor car so I gave it a 1500 grit go-over along with the washing.\u00a0 Once I touch the paint up I can wet sand again then polish.\u00a0 I can’t wait!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"img_8383\"<\/a>Look at how nice the windshield is.\u00a0 This is a hard to find piece of glass in good shape unless you want to spend a lot of money. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tomorrow I plan on painting the engine compartment black and further sorting out the dash wiring to all the switches.\u00a0 Is there somewhere I can order an ignition key by the code?<\/p>\n

Thanks for stopping in.\u00a0 If you have any of the following for this car let me know: steering column shrouds, brake fluid reservior, hood prop, used carpet set, or airbox.\u00a0 Trying to get it as together as possible.<\/p>\n

Up next, deciding what to do about the drive train.\u00a0 Two liter from APE?\u00a0 Everything as is?\u00a0 An unknown transmission or a known bad transmission?\u00a0 I’ll flip a coin.<\/p>\n

I’m starting to like this car again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I couldn’t sleep last night. I worked hard on the TI Sunday until 8pm and got inspired to fix it up and then when I tried to go to sleep I kept thinking about what I needed to do to put it together. Well, after dragging my tired, I-only-got-2-hours-of-sleep butt around the office I simply … <\/p>\n

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