I decided it was time to clean up the briggs car a bit. Stripped it down to the cage, cleaned and repainted. The black paint always looked dirty and had to go. Made all new bushings for the a arms and trailing arms. Rebuilt the steering rack, installed a slip yoke on the steering column to eliminate the binding that I always had. Made an entirely new wiring harnes with weather pack connectors, new dash panels and gauges. Rebuilt all the cv joints. Topped it all off with a 2001 polaris 700 twin big block motor (( Internal Combustion Engine ? )). This required me to make all of my own brackets for an electric start motor (( Internal Combustion Engine ? )) and a custom two into one exhaust manifold to mate up to the expansion pipe. I did away with my dual radiator set up and used a radiator from a 3cyl geo metro. I reworked the Engine mounting plate to make clutch tuning easier. With the old 500 set up I had to remove the Engine to change the clutch. The new set up allows me to remove two 3/8 nuts and the Engine will pivot up enough to allow me to remove the clutch. Of course I still have to remove the mounting bolts for the silencer and the three bolts for the radiator which slides over to allow for the clearance. Here are some pics of the early stages. I'll post more soon.
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