You should have most of it by the weekend.
You should have most of it by the weekend.
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Oh man yeah, I've seen them before. They look great, and I will likely pick up a set later, but I'm wanting to put a digital dash in this one. Thanks for reminding me, I've done some other work I need to post photos of.Originally Posted by ATaylorRacing
Nice job on the alternator, can't wait to see how the rest of the resto goes!
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Nice! Then I can look at them for the next several months.lol. Thanks again Johnny.
Thanks Cindy. Going to try not to cut corners(except where they need to come off) and do it up right. At some point I will likely be bringing it down there for some tuning.
Parts kit for the rotisserie to get the car up on. Just need to get the steel tubing, some jacks, casters, and weld it up. There's a steel place not far so I'll hopefully be able to start on it soon.
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Rear suspension:
Been spending some time here and there on readying the ac/alternator bracket for polishing. Once again I forgot to take pictures before I got started on it, but these are some pictures after some initial sanding with some drill based flap wheels at 80 & 120 grit. I've since gotten quite a bit more work done on it and will get some more pics up later.
Quite a bit of material had to come off with some drill based grinding bits too before I could even do much with the sanding wheels. The aluminum on the bracket is pretty soft though and using the grinding bits I was able to smooth out that huge groove there in the last pic.
This was a set of pics I took of the progress on it 2/27.
And a couple taken on 03/02:
Started removing items from the block last night. Got all the pulleys, the water pump, distributor and intermediate shaft removed so far.
The weather cleared up a bit today and I was able to get out and do some work on removing things from the interior.
Got the insulation stuff off. Wow they used a lot of glue! For anyone who hasn't removed that stuff yet, it's dusty, I'd suggest a dust mask, or you'll at least want to pull your shirt up over your nose.
Took off all the nuts and drain tube, disconnected the vaccum line on the firewall for the heater/ac box and got that removed along with the steering column and brake/clutch pedal assembly. Cleaned up what I could of the remaining glue/insulation mess.
Got the rest of the block disassembled last night. Glad I have an impact gun and at least a small compressor, made the job of getting all the caps off so much easier.
Think I might look for a new pan, It's taken a number of hits over the years and there's a pretty good crease near the drain.
Something was going on with #5, don't know what. Other than that, all the rest looks pretty good, bearings show almost no wear except what looks like wear notches in the sides of the thrust bearing that you can see laying along side the block in one of the previous pics.
Would surely like to find some 4 bolt main caps to mate up to here:
Great build!! It looks like your block and head aren't cross drilled if you haven't noticed.
Thanks
Randy
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Thanks. I'm pretty sure the head was, but it was a replacement anyway. Good eye, I hadn't even paid attention or noticed yet that the block is not. Suppose that's odd considering it came out of a '92, casting says 91. Guess I'll be having that done also. Planning on getting it O-ringed too.
Just checked and the head wasn't crossdrilled either.
Removed the front calipers yesterday. Today I dropped the K-frame, removed the gas, clutch and shifter cables and pulled down the heat shielding.
Car once had an extremely bad oil leak. That's when I finally found and got the blue pan gasket.
Bought those new big 'ol jack stands to put under the rear so I can start getting to the stuff back there. Need get a few more concrete blocks to put under 'em first.
Liked the beefy jack stands so much I bought another pair and now have the car up off all fours. Removed the gas tank, rear axle, e-brake cable, and finally the fuel lines.
No baffles inside the tank.
So, in N. Texas there has only been a couple dry days within the last MONTH! With all the rain and working a lot of OT lately, I haven't been able to do much with the car. Been picking up the AC/alternator bracket here and there and getting it a little closer to being done.
thats an impressive polishing job on that part...you must have some experience!
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