[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
[ASASCAT]
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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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