Live from Lebanon Valley LODRS .90s style

[Keith 944]

Well after spending most of the day repairing some issues on the car I made the 3 1/2 hour trip down to New York.
supposed to be a fairly nice week with a little rain coming Thursday.
yes I am staying here hanging out and trying to relax a little bit before our next battle
i have to thank the track owner Howie for allowing the racers to come from Epping and park or stay if they wish, and Mike Fitts for putting us where we belong, you guys really went through the extra effort. looks like there was quite a few cars and people that took them up on the offer. I will spend some of the day tomorrow working on my car again and running around picking up some food and what not for the week.i will try to post some pictures, maybe I will have some time to get a few more pictures of this weeks adventure. again, if there’s anything you guys want to see or have any questions please let me know sometimes I think I just ramble on about myself, help me out!!!

[Keith 944]

OK guys it’s Tuesday woke up to nice sunny skies weather supposed to get up to 76 today believe I’ll ride the scooter around a bit pick up some groceries and what not. I do have a few issues I have to fix on the car,
Let’s backtrack a little and discuss what goes on during one of these trips. okay so most people know you go a lot of rounds but what happens in between the races, just last week I had ordered a new converter and put it in. changed transmission fluid, the transmission only has a few passes and the valve body is a new hipster with a brand new solenoid so I noticed in one round of eliminations the car rolled into the beams a hair, now just had to be me pushing on the gas before I set the break or something like that so I didn’t pay that much attention, in the finals the car rolled about 3 inches, I did come up red but came back and thought that was unusual so I set the break and the car rolled again, put it in reverse, set the brake and it seem like it hung up! what is going on here? so I put the car in the trailer, crawl underneath and noticed that the solenoid is sticking when being manually pushed in or out . I was going to take the transmission out because I didn’t want to risk it being the rod inside the valve body. I took the solenoid off anyway and noticed it was just the solenoid getting hung up, that little roll pin was hanging up on the housing of the solenoid just enough to make it stick or release slow. Had a new solenoid on the other spare transmission so I replaced that.
So I think I have that fixed. onto the next issue, I noticed I had some brake fluid leaking on the rear wheels, off comes the wheels. I take apart the caliper, replace the O-ring, noticed that the piston has a slight groove in it. put it all back together, seems like it’s not leaking now but I did notice my brakes felt like hitting a brick and still not stopping very well, so online order $500 in parts, I will take the pads back off and sand them today, hopefully I have just glazed them. I have stuff coming to the house for when I get back. I still may change that transmission because it seem like it had a lot of fine metallic in it, not sure if the brake sticking might have done something internally. I will check that today. I will adjust the band and see if it’s worth running that transmission here. sure is a lot easier to change stuff at home on the lift then on the ground in the dirt. I have this car on my lift probably every other week checking everything over, it gets a lot of runs but I built the car over 25 years ago and somethings are still original.. My point to this is if you have any issues take the time to look everything over, you may just find it in time to win the next round!

[Keith 944]

Thanks to my buddy Gerald Pierce who has a shop here in Albany. He hooked me up with some transyned and filter to change the fluid in my Allison. I am going to hit that hard now so thanks again buddy!

[SST159]

Yea, that Gerald is a real nice guy until you stage next to him. Then he will rip your eyes out of your head with a .01 light and dead on with a .003. LOL
Tell him I said hello.
If you get bored, my trailer is in the back field.
Change the oil and go over the valves for me please.
Heading up Thursday morning so if you need anything give me shout.

[Keith 944]

Originally Posted by SST159

Yea, that Gerald is a real nice guy until you stage next to him. Then he will rip your eyes out of your head with a .01 light and dead on with a .003. LOL
Tell him I said hello.
If you get bored, my trailer is in the back field.
Change the oil and go over the valves for me please.
Heading up Thursday morning so if you need anything give me shout.

Work is a four letter word, this is what I am doing

[BKSG1198]

Great, the EPA will be out to the creek since Keith is contaminating it....lol. Have fun, see ya in a few weeks!

[SST159]

Where is the beer??

[Keith 944]

I drank it all while working on your car, if I was you I would look the valves over before I made a pass, Oil should be OK though it does take 3 quarts right??

[SST159]

I usually run two quarts but three will be ok thanks. LOL

[BKSG1198]

Drew, just watch out for the tow hook that Keith installed to the back of the car since he adjusted the valves also.....lol