I knew Brandon was serious about working on the Fiat when he woke himself up at 7 am, all on his own. We headed over to the storage lot and picked up the trailer. Brandon drove, his first time pulling a trailer. I ended up backing it into the driveway.
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| Car is unloaded into garage and ready for work to begin. |
The first step, after unloading the car, was to empty the car of all the parts stored inside. These parts were laid out across the driveway.
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| Brandon is ready, mask on for dust and allergies. Its a bad allergy day. |
Time to get to work. We knew that the drivers side floor would need replacing, so we scraped all the crud and used a shop vac to clean up the mess. After a couple hours of scraping and cleaning, we determined that the drivers side and passenger side floor pans need to be replaced.
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| Brandon shop vacs all the debris from the floor to see what condition its in. |
Josh, Brandon's friend and fellow robotics team member, show up at 10 to help out. First step, get in the truck and go get some breakfast and then head to Home Depot for some supplies. Part of the payment for working on the car is food, a necessity for any teenager. Also, everyone who works on the car will get to drive it.
At Home Depot we purchased some tools we were missing (projects like this are always a good excuse to buy new tools!), as well as a rolling wire shelf unit to store car parts.
Once we were back at our garage, Josh took on the disassembly of the engine while Brandon and I continued to clean out the interior of the car. We also pulled the gas tank and started cleaning the hood compartment (on a Fiat 600, that's where the gas tank, spare tire and battery are located). The engine in in the rear.
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| Josh took on the disassembly of the engine |
Josh made progress on the engine. Another friend, Roen showed up around 1 and started working on cleaning parts coming off the engine. It's a messy project. Danielle showed up later and she helped with some parts cleaning, as well as some additional new tool runs with Brandon. Oh, and rags, lots and lots of rags.
Brandon spent some time in the afternoon figuring out how to clean a gas tank.
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| Today's Crew: Josh, Brandon and Roen (not pictured, Danielle who left early...something about having to work). |
We finished up the day around 5:30 pm, cleaning up the garage so we can use it for other things and our dog could get back in. She normally has access from the side door.
Parts have been ordered from the Mr. Fiat website: two floor panels, a fuel sending unit and an engine gasket set.
