Load 'em up!

Well, we're moving to Tennessee. The plan for the Mustang is to load it onto a trailer, and tow it behind a big Penske Truck down Rt. 40 and over the mountains to Tennessee.

We moved it out of our garage, into the neighbors driveway for a few days. Then we loaded it up onto the trailer. The video shows us moving, and then positioning the car in the road. It took all hands to load it onto the trailer, so nobody was able to capture it on video.

Getting a car loaded onto a trailer is a pretty big challenge. We had the added complications of a manual transmission, a clutch that was a bit tricky. In the end, we got it part way, and then used some ratchet straps to winch it, and a few hands to push it the rest of the way onto the wheel chocks.

The trip out to Tennessee was long and difficult, but we made it!

Stopping Power

There was a little bit of brake work that needed to be done after our first powered move test. One of the brake drum cylinders was leaking fluid. We pulled it all apart, and replaced it with a new one.










Once that was done, we bled the brakes again, and refilled all the brake fluid.













Here's some pics of the master cylinder. We drained out the old fluid, and then had to run brake clean fluid into the cylinder and pump the brakes to wash out the dried up dot 3 goo that accumulated as the old fluid evaporated over the years.

Here it is with lots of brake clean in it, waiting to get washed out.