Part Numbers

Road Tires.

In Future Plans, Part Numbers, Purchasing on 5 March 2010 with 3 comments

Peer Pressure came with a set of 32×11.5R15 BF Goodrich Mud Terrains, and they are very, very nice tires. However, they’re also noisy as hell and I’d like to have something better suited for everyday driving mounted in their place, so I thought I’d do some preliminary pricing. The first step was to convert [...]

Plans for Wrenching.

In Friends, Part Numbers, Purchasing, Repairs on 20 January 2010 tagged friends repairs parts with no comments

I got a couple of small packages in the mail this week, one of which contains an OEM Robertshaw 180° thermostat and gasket. Along with some other small chores, my aim is to get it installed on Saturday and try to get the fan shroud mounted in order to run up the engine and test [...]

Holley 2300 Installation

In Future Plans, Part Numbers, Purchasing on 4 January 2010 with no comments

This is only peripherally related to my engine (I have a different carb setup) but the writeup is good so far: This gentleman is swapping a Holley 2100 for a new 2300 350CFM unit, which is the one I’d like to eventually have on my Scout.

Leaky Gasket.

In Friends, Part Numbers, Progress on 20 June 2009 with no comments

I took the Scout over to some friends’ last night to pick up a load of baby toys, and figured it would be a good idea to put some gas in the tank. There’s something wrong with either the gas gauge or the sender in the tank, because it’s never registered anything other than empty. [...]

Sunday In the Garage.

In Part Numbers, Progress on 29 March 2009 with no comments

I got a little time to work on Scout-related stuff this weekend, and it felt good to make some progress. Because I couldn’t leave the house on Saturday, I worked on the spare dash in the basement. I got the entire thing disassembled except for the washer control and spent an hour cleaning about a [...]

VIN decoding.

In Part Numbers on 10 March 2009 with 3 comments

One of the questions I’ve had about my FrankenScout since I got it has been what is original and what isn’t. I have the VIN from the title and the plate (which is screwed into the driver’s A pillar), and which most likely comes from the body itself. But what about the frame? is it [...]

Wiper information

In Part Numbers on 20 January 2009 tagged binder bulletin, forum, forum post, Part Numbers, parts with 1 comment

This morning, a forum post came up on the Binder Bulletin with wiper arm information, which reminded me of a Scout story from years ago:
When I was in college, I borrowed my roommate’s Traveller to drive myself and two friends to D.C. to attend an evening seminar at the Smithsonian. On the way down, it began [...]