[DeTomaso] Sat, July 26 Tech Session

Asa Jay Laughton asajay at asajay.com
Sat Jul 26 21:40:22 EDT 2008


By the way, the POCA Club Store does not carry plastic model kits.  This 
was from a personal set I purchased years ago from someone on this forum 
who got a really good deal on a group buy.

Just thought I should make that clear.
Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired

& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA

1973 Pantera L 5533
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Asa Jay Laughton wrote:
> It was a beautiful day, interuppted just before mid-day by a 
> thundering Pantera coming down my driveway.  A little over an hour 
> later we had the transmission all unbolted and ready to slide out.  So 
> we broke for some barbecue hamburgers then headed over to my dad's 
> place to pick up his engine hoist.
>
> A couple of straps on the transmission to hold it up, a bottle jack 
> and 2x6 under the engine oil pan and in about five minutes we had the 
> trans out and on the floor.  What a pleasure.
>
> We talked Pantera tech for a while, ball-joints, a-arms, brakes, 
> transmission, etc.  We perused the POCA Inventory and I gave away a 
> plastic Pantera model kit to the biggest helper of the day, Ken 
> MacArthur.  Afterward, we pulled Ken's car into the shade of the 
> garage and did a quick check of his front end.
>
> Looks like Ken already has a bushing in his steering rack and it felt 
> great.  The tie-rod ends seemed a bit loose at the ball joint so I 
> recommended he replace those.  Rocking the wheels we believe we found 
> his ball joints could be replaced as well.  I showed him my 30 year 
> old joints pulled from my Pantera recently and he understood where the 
> clunking might be coming from.  We then did a little carb adjustment 
> to make sure the choke lockout on the carb secondaries released 
> properly to let him have some quality "Holy Shit" moments with the 
> pedal pressed to the floor.  We quickly looked at his rear sway bar 
> mounts, as he has one stud broken, but we'll have to tackle that 
> another day.
>
> Overall it was a great day, a really good visit and some quality 
> Pantera work got done.  I'll be advertising another day when I get 
> ready to put the transaxle back in.  I hope to see more of you here.
>
> Please take care,
> Asa Jay
>
> PS.  I know some of you have sold your Pantera in the recent year.  If 
> you would like to be removed from my address book, please just let me 
> know.   Thanks.
>



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