John, both my Suncoupe and 70 GS 455 have the clip in the second photo. It looks like your is on backwards...the part with hole in it should point toward the firewall and bolt to a hole in the booster mounting bracket. Jon
John, what color are the top and interior going to be? Are you going back with the black, or.............? Looking good by the way! :shock:
could i ask a huge favor and ask one of you to take some close up pics of the sunroof as mine is in pieces and need to figure out how it goes.. pics of the trim underneath the top and any other pics from inside the car ... would be great if maybe someone had a set of pics as they were fixing one lols
could i ask a huge favor and ask one of you to take some close up pics of the sunroof as mine is in pieces and need to figure out how it goes.. pics of the trim underneath the top and any other pics from inside the car ... would be great if maybe someone had a set of pics as they were fixing one lols
I am saving the color shots for when the body is assembled. As for the drive shaft I chose blasted steel powdercoat and I am not liking it much./ Its ok buy it has a grainy grey look almost like hammer tone paint if you know what that looks like. I'll shoot some pics of it and post them
Quick update. The car is at the engine builders shop and he is letting me do some of the assembly to get it started. I installed the spark plugs, NOS choke coil, PCV and grommets, negative cable, NOS blower resistor, NOS sending units for oil, and temp, new p/s pump, reconditioned brackets A/C and lat brackets, 160 degree thermostat I have yet to get my PS lines as they are on order. Once I get a rad in it and my distributor ready its time to add fluids and start it
For most (if not all) Suncoupe owners will visit this thread this might be a lead for a few parts: http://annarbor.craigslist.org/pts/1846565561.html
Quick note I have been on vacation at our lake place an hour from my car. I made a trip nearly every day last week to work on it to ready it for starting and install some parts, finish brakes, install trans linkage,drive shaft, front headpipes and mufflers ( Gardner), F 41 parts, radiator, P? and Alt, restored fan and new clutch, plugs wiresm water tem and thermostaric vaccum valve, NOS TCS. Put gas in the tank and fired it! The car would not run for very long and we decided that the NOS fuel pump was bad. Replaced it and it ran for a while and stopped again. No more NOS fuel pumps. Carb was starving for fuel. Installed a new float and reset it. It was right on from JW rebuild but the darn thing would not run. took the carb back off and sent it out to a local specialty carb shop with a run in engine on stand ( Buick 350) The carb ran great. Now it was noticed that the second fuelpump had a rubbed spot on the side of the pump arm! The timing chain was hitting the pump arm. A call to TA let us know that yes indeed the double roller set I installed was causing a clearance problem. The fix was to oblong the holes in the NOS pump and re install. I will find out tomorrow if the finial break in is done. Then its off to the body shop for the install of the fenders and some other body parts.
Sorry no new pics today but I was at the shop most of the day working on the car. I installed the shift linkage crossover to a collum shift collumn to be able to move it around. The car is getting buckets and floor shift later. Today I got to open up a box with GM markings on it and a NOS power seat track assembly . I was going to welds the floor traks on but first I wanted to try it you know just in case this thing did not work. Well the motor spun the rubber belt but the seat did not move. It took a while but I got the nerve to tear the transmission apart. The factory applied grease was not allowing the solenoids to move the gears and it took a little cleaning and some new grease on the transmission and the cables and Voila its working. I got the seat set in place before the shop closed. Its 102 here today!
Ok, there have been several setbacks. I heard the car run to break in the cam. It was very nice sounding. The car would not idle after the break in. Aftewr many hours of tracing down suspected problems we found a huge vaccum leak at the end rails of the intake. Seems the old guy that assembled the engine should have gotten some help with it bnecause he bent one of the alignment pins and tore both end rails. Back together and the car is still low on vaccum. The shop owner is a ASE masetr tech and is very knowledgeable but when we looked intot he leak the car had nice vacum at 1000 rpms. I said it sounded like lazy timing t5o me. We used a dial timing light and after checking everything we styarted to dial in more timing. at 33 degrees initial the car was running better and at 180 degrees I said the Buick would not want to start at this setting. The car fired right up. Tonight the cam is going to be degreed ( should have been done during the build which would have avoided this. I could have used a stock timing chain which would have avoided this too. Anyway I am guessing that the 70 something year old machinst got the multi key crank sprocket on wrong and the engine is seriously retarded! The body shop is pissed that I have them holding my bay for the last couple weeks. This is such a drain. Now I have to see what the bill will be for the engine start up and all the work to get it this far. The car was in the shop for 3 weeks and while I worked on it a lot myself the guys in the shop have many hours in the job at 85 per hour. This is because i wanted the builder to start the engine he built. Hopefully he doesn't expect me to pay for his guys screwups. I should find out tonight if the car will be done friday morning for transport. At the body shop I spied a couple Pontiacs that will be for sale. A custom 68 firebird in 2010 caddy paint nice and a 65 GTO tri power 4 spd no A/C in light blue. The 65 is in final assembly and I sure wish I could afford to get into that one.
Dang it John......don't sound like things are going good for you my friend. Hang in there.....better days are ahead. See ya soon. :TU: Peace WildBill
