September 12th

Today I wrote my personal project report. It was kind of frustrating because they gave us hardly any notice and no guidance besides a sample report by "Suzie Student." I got it done anyway by following the sample.

September 1st

Today I went out to the workshop to cut the pieces of the carburetor. It occurred to me that If I was to drill another whole in each piece, The centre of which being 5/16 of an inch away from the centre of the existing hole, The holes would over lap. This Idea was not going to work.

August 28th

Today I got a new tool to help with this problem.It is called an impact driver. You put the necessary bit in one end then put in on the screw then hold it while you hit the other end with a hammer. Rotates the bit about one eighth of a turn with up to 1200 foot pounds of torque. Needless to say, I got the bolts out easily. After about 20 minutes work, I had both sides of the carburetor completely separated. I put the horazontal pieces that I would need to cut with the hack saw in a jar for another day.

August 24th

Today I disconnected the carburetor from the air filter and began taking it apart. My objective was to remove all the horizontal pieces, cut them down 5/16th of an inch, because that is how much wider the carburetor is than the engine intake. Several of the pieces would need new holes to be drilled. others would just need to be refitted and secured to there adjacent pieces. I immediately encountered a problem. Several of the screws that needed to come out were frozen. no matter what I did, all I could seem to do what strip the metal. I could not afford to do this because these screws are unique and I would not be able to replace them.

August 22nd

Today I tried to put the carburetor back in. In order to get it to fit, I had to first remove the air filter and air intake, as well as removing the battery housing and connecting because the were in the way. It became apparent that the left and right outputs of the carburetor were farther apart than they are on the engine. Obviously this is a problem because they need to connect securely, and in this position they won't connect at all.