K.I.T.T. Goodies from Knight Rider Shop

Awesome!  Just arrived today in the mail my steering wheel adapter and door LEDs (episode 3 "A Good Day At White Rock") I ordered from Knight Rider Shop online. I can't wait for warmer weather to install these. I'm going to hold out for when I can get the power mirror door bezels and switch so as that way I can do both of those little jibs at the same time... at least that would make sense to me to do it that while the door is all disassembled.  ;-)

Turbocast Rims Off

Using my new tire changer I picked up from Princess Auto I was able to get the tires off of the Turbo Cast rims from the parts car with very little effort. The job most definitely would have been easier with the tire changer mounted securly to the garage floor but Canadian Tire didn't have the right concrete floor anchors that I needed and I was impatient.  lol

I was trying to clean up the rims last night using Scotch bright and some all purpose metal polish but was not having much luck. They appear to have a great deal of oxidization and break pad dust coating them. Also because of their design they are not the easiest rims to clean as you can tell by the picture. I'll have to see if there is a better product out there that will take all that crap off of the rims... I'm sure there is??

New Tire Changer

I picked up a tire changer from Princess Auto for around $85.00 I figured seeing how most places charge about $11.00 to remove a tire per wheel and that I have to

1 - Remove the tires from the aluminum Turbocast rims so I can clean those up for K.I.T.T.

2 - Remove the tires from the Trans Am thats being converted into K.I.T.T.

3 - Put the tires onto the cleaned up Turbocast Rims and then put the wheels back on.

At a grand total of $132.00 approximately before taxes I was well better off to buy the tire changer, learn how to use it and already it will have paid for itself. Plus I figure it's not like I'm not most likely to need to do it again at some point ;-)

Changing the Battery For The Very First Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-tuamwoVsI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Turbo Cast Wheels Removed

Special thanks to my brother Alan for popping by this afternoon to help me jack up the parts car and put it up on cinder blocks so we could take the wheels off. K.I.T.T.'s proper shoes are now stacked neatly in the garage.  Just need to take them in and have the old tires taken off the rims so I can clean up the aluminum rims.

Insulating the garage

Yesterday I started to get the insulation up into the rafters in the garage.  I have a good 3rd of it done and will be doing the rest today. Hopefully this will help make the garage a little more bearable for working out there on cold days.

Also got 4 good cinder blocks to put the donor car up on so I can take off the Turbo Cast rims for K.I.T.T.

Knight Rider Dash Arrived Today

I'm very stoked that my 2 T.V. Knight Rider Dash arrived by Fed Ex today all the way from Italy. I ordered on December 11th from Knight Rider World on eBay. You may recall that I chose this dash over many of the others available  because this one has the extra side and centre panels for a much better dash placement. I was very impressed when I saw this version available from Italy, it cost a little bit more but for me it made sense to spend that little extra seeing how I saved so much on the other parts such as

 the gullwing steering yoke, upper and lower consoles that I also got from eBay from Knight Scan. 

Now I need to find some instructional videos on what type of rotary tool is needed to make the cut outs for installation of the electronics and installation of the dash onto the current one in the 1982 Trans Am Firebird.

If anyone knows of any good ones I would sure appreciate the pointing in the right direction ;)