Cleaned and painted the correct transmission dust cover after cleaning and painting the wrong one and trying to install it.
I dug out a few old distributors that I had. 2 of them had the points still in them (one is out of a 73 Chevrolet small block) so I can see how they go in (car did not have the points in it when I bought it). Ordered all that I needed to convert the distributor back to points again. Going to use them to trigger the MSD 6AL and Blaster 2 coil. Ordered an extra set of points to keep in the glove box, too. Points and condenser are SMP Blue Streak. Ordered the SMP lead wire and distributor ground wire, too. The Chevy distributor has the grommet I need for the lead wire.
I have to work on other projects so I can buy parts for my projects. Today, I helped my friend start the disassembling of his “old school “ 1928 Model A hot rod. We will be fabricating a complete new frame and running gear for the old hot rod. It was originally built in the ‘60’s and put together with whatever parts they had laying around at the time. We drug it out of an old barn a couple of years ago.
Today I am going to change the right exhaust manifold. When I bought the car, my grandma racing car, the guy said it had a cracked exhaust manifold. I’m finally tired of listening to it. Hopefully all will go well. I’ll be back later… First I have to kill a bunch of red ants that are crawling around my back porch.
I didn’t know Lowes allows dogs also, I know Home Depot does, at least he gets to hang out with Dad One of the times at Home Depot, one of our fosters at the time pooped on the floor, we cleaned it up, usually everyone is cool about it, this one guy gave my wife a dirty look and said “really?” I replied “ yep dogs poop” Thank you Derek! He’s a mellow fellow
Oh yes, I get the Lucky dog award today. No broken bolts, and it came off easily, way too easily. As you can probably see from the picture the front exhaust port was leaking on the bottom and the back exhaust port was leaking on the bottom. The front two bolts were actually loose and only a couple of the bolts were actually tight. The guy I bought this car off of was a carpenter. He most definitely was not a mechanic! Can’t tell you how many little things I have fixed on this car because they were done wrong. Now to clean everything up, maybe do a little painting, put some new gaskets on it and tighten it all back up. Auburndale here I come.
Nope, there was no crack. The front two bolts were loose allowing the gasket to blow out, and the back two bolts were loose. I put the same bolts in that I took out but I’m definitely going to order from Todd some of those new original style manifold bolts with the locking washer built into the bolt head.
Cleaned off the old crappy under dash insulation and started replacing with new modern sound deadener.
Got it set in the corner of the barn for the winter. It's keeping the 86 Funny Car company for one last winter. We will be pulling the interior out in the next few weeks to redo over the winter. I'll start the restoration on the body next spring. "Finally"......
This afternoon did a R&R on the a/c compressor in the 97 in preparation for the ride down south for the BOPC show. It would hold charge for a couple of weeks then leak down past the shaft seal when sitting for days without being driven
Yes Tom along with parts from 20 years of off and on collecting. Along with parts I'm picking up in the next few weeks.
John (Waterboy), I would bring that manifold to a machine shop to have the face resurfaced. Buick didn't use gaskets because they wanted the heat transfer. Regular exhaust gaskets hampers the transfer of heat. Reason for manifolds to crack. IF you are not/can't spend the $$$$ to get them resurfaced then I suggest getting the Remflex Gaskets. Since they are ALL metal they WILL transfer the heat. Probably cost as much or more than the resurfacing job. Tom T.
Good for you John. I've still got the same Wildcat IF you may need anything else. Window mechanisms, ALL outside trim, some inside, etc. Tom T.
Not so much my Buick, but for my Buick. I got tired of my extra wheels sitting on my workbench, I've got another set on the way that replace the ones on my car. So I built this from spare lumber I had laying around from when my Army buddy and I redid my deck a few years back. Designed to hold 8 wheels. Way overbuilt, lag bolts, GRK fastener, all dimension lumber except the front part. Just drew it up real fast on a piece of notebook paper, and took stock of what I had in the basement, and made it work.
