Herbold Racing!

I know it has been a long time (2 weeks!) since my last real blog entry… but that doesn’t mean I’ve not been doing anything. In fact I have been doing something pretty major. I’ve been working on a complete rebuild of my carburetor! It is not done yet but I wanted [...]

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Day 2 has come and gone and we made tons of progress on the car. Jerad mainly focused on getting the new seat in and I worked on getting the headers off and replacing the header gaskets. We also added a couple of steel bars underneath the new fuel cell to make the [...]

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After the failed start up I decided that the culprit were the batteries. I took them out of the car and checked the built in indicators on them and one was showing red, and the other was showing black. The label on the batteries say that a fully charged battery will show a [...]

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I got up very early in the morning, well… earlier than when I normally get up, so I could go to the DMV to transfer the vehicle title to my name. When I got there, I learned two things… one, because it is an out of state vehicle, I have to bring the car in [...]

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This afternoon after work I popped over to Sears to look for a floor jack and stands. I ended up buying the Craftsman 50239 which is a 2 ton aluminum floor jack and two sets (for 4 stands total) of Craftsman 50159 which are 3 ton high lift jack stands. The whole thing [...]

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