I did a little to the car this week. I trailered it to my friend's alignment shop and had the front end lined up and checked out. Everything is OK. I also worked on the turn signal switch. The screw that holds the turn signal lever was broken off in the switch, so, I took the switch out to work on it. It takes an 8-32 X 5/8" screw so I figured I'd run out to Lowe's and pick up a pack. They had 1/2" and 3/4". I bought the 3/4" and ground it down to 5/8".
I posted a thread on here about it. That's when a fellow PYer reminded me of the springs in the housing! So, I eneded up pulling the whole steering column out of the car to work on it. I needed to do that anyway because I forgot to install the lower column seal when I first put the steering column back in.
I also ordered some bumper bracket washers from AMK but they have not arrived yet. I bought the bolts from a local shop and spent $14.30 on them The front end work ran me $65.00
I worked on the car for 3 1/2 hours. Here are the latest totals.
Labor @ 379 hrs...............$7,580.00
Parts .............................$7,103.87
Outside Labor...................$6,221.00
Gifts .................................$716.52
Total.............................$21,621.39
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