KornEquipped

I was pretty surprised by the price of some headlight restorer kits. I really want to clean up the headlights on a few of my cars but whats so special about the kits? I have a bunch of old headlights in the garage attic so I looked around the shelves and found a bottle of Plexiglass polish and a bottle of John Deere Spray Detailer. A couple of light passes on a standard cloth buffing wheel mounted on my bench motor yielded pretty good results.  I don’t know if the rouge that was already on the wheel contributed to the shine. I have another set up there so I’ll try those too. I think I’ll post these on Craigslist now.

Here is the first one done. Pretty good compared to the other.

A long time ago I made this program to interface to my CJ7 and added a dash mode display to it.

I decided to update it for my EZGO….

Now to get this little tablet mounted to the cart

 I needed a bunch of connectors for all these controllers when I realized the power supply adapters from an ATX motherboard were the right ones….Just cut off the smaller end and solder up some longer wires…

The first test of a 1236 and my first VCL program. I wish I had a spyglass so I could make it say “Hello World”

I got this 3 phase motor out of a Printronix Line Printer.

It really surprised me when I powered it up and it flipped over.

So now it’s clamped down to the table

 I have a bunch of Curtis Controllers I got from old Forklifts. I needed a quick way to bench test them before I tried them in a cart.

The best way to check every function was to build a switch and pot box for al the possible inputs and add a bunch of leds for the different outputs and indicators. While I was at it I added an RS232 interface.

Rather than use a resistive load I just paralleled a bunch of Auto Backup light bulbs

This worked out pretty good and let me do a coarse setup on the parameters before they got installed.  So far I’ve got three of then in use and no problems yet. I did make one little miscalculation with the load compensation while Nick was sitting in the Go Cart and the cart decided to jump up on its rear wheels the second Nick hit the throttle. Luckily I was there to push him back over. That’s why the full roll cage was mandatory on that cart.

The EZGO Gold Cart retrofit was a little more mild on the programming. I use that for bringing cut up trees to the front on my property. I also have a trailer hitch on it for moving my trailer or tow dolly around.It worked really well towing a Hyundai down my driveway when the car died.

I once brought home an engine and trans from a 71 Nova on my trailer and instead of trying to back the trailer into the garage with the car I swapped the trailer to the golf cart and ran it around the yard a few times for fun then backed it into the garage with ease.

So far these things have performed very well. I have a couple of 1236 controllers but cant really find a reasonably priced motor to go with them so for now it DC power only

Now take one Controller a Dana Axle and……. Wait for the post….

I picked up this Fiero pretty cheap but it needed a windsheild and plenty of bodywork. The A pillars were damaged from the tree that broke the windsheild. After a couple of weeks and some fiberglass and Bondo I had it smooth but it needed some paint.

After a weekend and some International Harvester Red Tractor Paint and a quart of Gloss Black it came out great.

Not bad for $30 worth of Tractor Paint. This summer I want to redo my Mustang and Eileen’s Corsica. I did this with a $20 paint gun I got from Harbor Freight. I’ve been reading a lot about roller painting a car and the results are really astounding but for my cars I don’t need the extra smooth finish. My cars are all drivers no trailer queens here…..

I cant wait till the weather gets a little warmer. I want to convert my S10 from its old Quadrajet to fuel injection. I picked up this 84 Corvette manifold from a guy going to a Holley carb on his Vette. I got the computer, wiring harness, all the sensors and plumbing. The hardest part will be putting the EFI pump back in the fuel tank. The factory 2.8L one had to be removed when the 350 V8 went in. I picked up a nice one from Jegs. Now I just need time.