Five Years (+10) and counting

[gasman826]

Clare tonight and Grayling tomorrow night.  FIVE car cruise-ins today!

[gasman826]

St Johns this morning.

[mustang6984]

Sweet! That is some serious gathering of cars! I be jealous! 

[CobraJoe]

Nice turnout, makes me wish i was there. 

[gasman826]

Leaving downtown Clare this morning to cruise-in/Street Fair in Harrison.  On to another cruise-in and overnight in Grayling.  More E85, food and ice cream...what's a person to do?

[RICH MUISE]

Awesome week....and you're not sweltering in 100* heat!

[gasman826]

Made it to the end of old US27 in Cheboygan, Michigan.  Broken but made it.  Minor stuff.  The locking steering column took a crap.  Key turns only between ON and OFF.  No ACC, no locking steering wheel, no START, no removing the key.  Solution:  push to start or jump the starter solenoid.  Not convenient but doable to get home...291 miles. The '57 is hiding behind the '53 Ford pickup.

[mustang6984]

UGH! Gonna make for a miserable starting, and no air is no fun, but maybe not too bad.

[RICH MUISE]

Hugh, ACC..........accesories not A/C.
Gary, is your T-Bird column like my Mustang Column?....key switch is separate from readily accessible ignition switch? Maybe jump the wires at the ignition switch? or not, just thinking out loud. Maybe jump wires at the fuse box? What do the car thieves do?

[gasman826]

HOME!  Vacations are so tiring!

[mustang6984]

LOL!!! Yea...gotta come home and get some rest from the vacation in order to function the following week!

[gasman826]

My son and I having fun with the '57.

[djfordmanjack]

awesome pic !!!

[mustang6984]

awesome pic !!!

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[gasman826]

Time to pull some maintenance.  After nearly 800 miles added on the Old US27 Cruise, the engine has about 1450 miles on it.  So, the list:
- torque everything
- new spark plugs
- compression test...195# across the board
- run the valves...I didn't like one pushrod.  At first, I thought I might have lost the cam but the pushrod had shortened.  We'll see if the new $35 pushrod will hold up!
- new oil and filter.  I split the filter and no shiny stuff inside.
- upgraded the valve cover with a screw on oil fill with an O-ring.
- new set of injectors
- new driveshaft safety loop
Ready to load up and go for another dyno tuning session.  835HP is a lot but there is more.  It is running rich so maybe a little better mileage.