Conversion officially on hold for Winter

The next video episode, such as it is, is posted below.  It's been too cold to do much of anything, as you can see.  We had two more snows since I shot this video.  It's just today starting to get up to normal temperatures, but the wind is gusting at ~30 mph, making it feel much cooler.  Next week, the wind is supposed to die down, but the temperatures will be falling too supposedly.  I'm hoping to get started again sometime in March, if the temperature and the rain (or more to the point, a lack of it) cooperate.

Sorry, no new updates...

A family reunion, weather, and a schedule change at work have kept me away from working on the car.  But next weekened, I have a three day weekend coming up, should get some movement then!

Today, we fight!

Today we're tackling the rust problems on the car. There's still some more work to do, but overal, it came out pretty well. The video, which I thought would be short, turned out to be the longest yet! I had to break it up into 3 parts. They'll be video responsed together as usual.

Here's the first one:



The manual did come in, but I did not get time to work on it. Today I'm tackling the bathroom, so I'm not sure I'll be able to get to working on the EV again until later in the week, when the hard bits of the bathroom are done. I'll update when I can, but I suspect it will be Wednesday at earliest.

Situation Normal

Well, as usual, nothing goes quite as planned. I did get the tarps hung up, though it took quite a bit more innovation than I realized. It turns out I didn't have any metal drilling bits, which is good to know now rather than during the mounting period. Failing that, I decided to try and run some string over the length of the overhang. A toy and a bottle of water stuck on the roof proved to me this wasn't going to work right.

I finally got the bright idea to just drill into the wood siding and the wood posts, and that worked pretty well. I need to get some fasteners to attach the corners together, but it's functional for now.

I got out there the other day to put it on jacks, and when I got down under the car (on the passenger side; I can't get under the car on the driver's side because the tires are too flat), I couldn't find the jackpoint! Usually there's a pretty obvious spot, but there's so little undercarraige down there, I'm affraid of twisting or crushing something important. I've ordered the Chilton's Geo Storm repair manual, which I was probably going to need for the clutch/engine anyway, but am now stuck waiting on it. This is exactly what I wanted to avoid by ordering parts ahead. Oh well! Sometimes you just have to roll with the punches.

That should be here tomorrow, so hopefully this weekend I can start removing bits. At the very least I want to get the fluid drained, but I have a home renovation project going on too, which has to come first (only one bathroom, so leaving it half done is not an option).

I'll get some more pictures and maybe a video later this weekend back up. I did at least get the stuff I'll need to repair the rust whole, so maybe I can get that done and posted if nothing else.