Average Boy’s Car Restoration, Mods and Racing
Tagged with AutoBlog
Spend a few hours on this two thousand seventeen Labor Day, laboring over #ProjectSportsRoof and I wish that labor paid a bit more dividends.
The purpose was to mate the transmission back to the engine but unluckily that just wasn’t going to happen today. The engine is set back a bit too far and tilted (on purpose). Problem is if I bolted them up the engine lift would be able to lift the engine and trans due to the height I needed the car to work on the transmission.
So I pulled the transmission out from under car and placed its wheels back on the concrete.
It was a major effort to get the car up high enough to get the transmission out. I shoved the boundaries of safety with a floor jack and a duo of jack-stand.
As I stated in the movie I may just take it down the street and have them get that straightened out for me.
More to come on #ProjectSportsRoof.
Thanks for reading.
Share this:
Like this:
Project SportRoof – Transmission Update
It’s been a while but the fresh career is smoothing out and I’m hell-bent on getting back to my Mustang project.
Here is where we are with the drive train…going backward is necessary sometimes to get moving forward again.
More Coming Up on #ProjectSportsRoof.
Thanks for reading.
Share this:
Like this:
Neighbor George’s one thousand nine hundred seventy nine El Camino
While I’m still adjusting to my fresh career (putting work on #ProjectSportsRoof on hold) Bill is helping a neighbor with his El Camino.
Sand is a hazard here the superb southwest and your engine isn’t going like that.
A good fuel filter can save your engine.
When Bill called me to talk about the sand issue, we discussed where that sand might have originated, after all we do live here in the desert of southern Arizona and sand has a habit of getting in to just about everything. We thought that a Seafoam treatment might be in order, albeit I think that might be a long shot. So Bill and George switched the fuel filter and George is going to add the Seafoam to about a half a tank of gas and drive until almost empty, then pull the filter, check for sand and substitute with a fresh filter. If the sand is still an issue, I suggest pulling down the tank for a good cleaning.
The one thousand nine hundred seventy nine El Camino was the 2nd year for the more compact design, based on the Malibu platform. The standard engine choices were a six cylinder and the three hundred five and 350. They had a cost of around $5000.00.
A Ample, thanks to Neighbor George for sharing he awesome rail!!
Thanks for reading.
Share this:
Like this:
Project BeepBeep – sixty eight RoadRunner Disc Brake Conversion – FINAL CHAPTER!
Welcome back to the #ProjectBeepBeep. We are still following Bill’s progress on the front disc brake conversion for his sixty eight Plymouth Road Runner.
Did I say this is the final chapter? Well….
Sometimes during a project you just can’t afford the time to do a movie, especially when you have a friend coming by to help out. Lets have Bill tell you how it all ended:
“I had to call in an pro; fellow I work with is a Mechanical Engineer and used to work as a Porsche/BMW mechanic before and during college. Together we got the wheels on the ground in about two hours. He recommended a last-ditch effort with the brake lines; we tightened all lines until the tube nuts were deformed. Also found an off center flare on one of the brake lines and he had a machine that fabricated the fresh line. Difficult to bleed; we bled the system eleven times (I counted) and went through lots of brake fluid (almost two quarts).
Took BeepBeep to the MOPAR demonstrate at Larry Miller Dodge almost instantaneously after getting the wheels on the ground! Car stops on a dime and gives you nine cents switch. Don’t miss power assist at all. This car will STOP!
I need an alignment next, but otherwise I truly have no other problems to report. Everything working; oil PSI is thirty five at idle, fifty five at running down the road, and temp was a tick under 195F all day long.
Bill, thanks for the all the movie and the tips you given the reader!
Looking forward to your next ‘little’ project on BeepBeep.