142. Getting closer....!

An almighty thrash by Steve with a little help from his friends has seen  a big step forward in the hope of getting to Dragstalgia. The gearbox rebuild kit arrived early, now this is because the kit that Steve ordered was found to be damaged and it was the last one of its type in stock so a more expensive and probably better replacement, a TCI kit was sent. A big thanks to Jegs who sent it priority post, it arrived in three days at no extra cost, now there's customer service for you. So Serve then spent a stressful evening repairing the gearbox I say stressful as Steve tells me it wasn't easy.

Next was to finish off the refurbishment of the trailer Steve, along with his mate manged to get the remainder of the woodwork completed and lights fitted in one evening another job ticked off the incredibly long "To Do" list.

Yesterday evening was a very long night for Steve the gearbox was taken from his work to where the car is being stored at the moment along with the rebuilt axle. First of all while putting the gearbox in place Steve heard a rattling sound the sort of sound that you shouldn't be getting from a re-built gearbox! so the box was put back on the floor and stripped where al oose bolt from the valve body had dropped out..phew! rather there than on the track. So back it went and then the axle was put in place another very heavy item, The process of aligning everything correctly was then undertaken and at that point Steve called it a night

So the wheels have got to go back on and everything tightened and checked then the car will be started up on the stands and the running gear checked over to make sure everything works as it should and no more rattling noises. The team have a just a week to finish it all off and fingers crossed no more problems and they might just make it. Steve has already entered the car for the fire burnouts again on Saturday night.

Like of lot of teams we run on a small budget everything comes out of our own pockets all the work on the car is down mainly to Steve which of course is many many days of unpaid hard work, but I have to say Steve has been a bit lucky just when he needed it with one of the main stream on-line bingo company's So I would like to say a big thank you to our unknowing main sponsor Gala Bingo.