04.04.08
Disassembly — Operation 16
This was just a clean-up and disassembly day.
• Curtis Controller: This was given a gentle cleaning. It will be saved and reused.
• Seat belts: Photographed and discarded.
• Reinforcing Straps for Seat Positioners and Seat Belts – Interior: There were four of these – mounted over the carpet on the inside of the car. They were made of steel but badly rusted, so I photographed them (see above) and threw them out. I had to cut thru one to remove the seatbelt bolt. There seems to be no pattern to the holes that were drilled – other than to say that two of the holes in each were for the seat positioner and the aft-most hole was for the seat-belt attach point. They measured 18-1/8-inches long, 1-1/2-inches wide and 3/16-inch thick. I could find no mention of these straps in the plans, so I assume that they were added as an afterthought.
• Reinforcing Straps for Seat Positioners – Exterior. There should have been four of these but I could only locate two under the car. They were mounted between the underside of the floor pans and the electric car’s sub-chassis. They weren’t as badly rusted as the interior ones, but I still want to find a better way to mount the (probably new) seat positioners, so I photographed them and discarded them. They were made of steel and holes were drilled to match the mounting studs on the seat positioners. They measured 10-inches long, 1-1/8-inches wide and 1/8-inch thick.
• Antenna: This was discarded.
• Seatbelt Attach Hardware: Two of the bolts had to be cut to remove the seatbelts and all of the hardware was badly rusted, so I photographed the hardware and discarded it.
• Motor Shunt: This was saved. It needs a thorough cleaning.
• Fuse Standoffs with Mounting Hardware: These were saved. They need to be cleaned.
• Mirrors and Associated Hardware: All of this was discarded, because the mirrors just didn’t fit the fenders very well. Fred Werkmeister’s car has a very nice set of mirrors. He believes that they came from a 1998 Oldsmobile Aurora. A sticker on my original mirrors said “TurboRacing”.
• Buss Fuse: This is an ALS-400 fuse. I need to get a couple of them. Their center-to-center dimension is 3-3/4”.
• High Current Connectors: These are made by Anderson Power Products. They are imprinted SB 350A-600V. I have 2 red sets for the battery packs and 1 grey set for the motor. I need to replace these with new ones. I photographed them and will keep the old ones.
• Other High-Current Cables: I have 3 of these which I photographed and kept. I’ll eventually discard these when I make some new ones.
