Long time, no update.
After the last update, I mainly enjoyed cruising and the car works like a dream. Still
had some minor things to do and some minor things needed to be done. I got the missing
fender emblems from John, thank you!
Below some stuff I have been upto.
Before starting the resto, I had some challenges with heat. Especially on slow cruises on
hot summer days, the engine heated way too much. So I decided to get a fan shroud
in place. Got an original shroud from Murray.
Familiar pictures again
And tadaa, at least this summer there wasn't any single day that the engine would
have over heated. And the July was hot, almost +30 celsius degrees the whole month.
I had acquired another cauge cluster, because the old one was very rusty.
Basically the cauges were good, but the base was so rusty that I did not
want to install that. If I only had realized how easy it would have been to
change original cauges (especially the speed meter), I would have saved
my self unnecessary headache...
After the first 100 miles, the speedo jumped heavily when moving from 99 to next hundred.
Well, I thought that it would be just a bit stiff after being unused who knows how long.
But when the next 100 miles went over, the speedo just get jumping and the odometer
stopped moving totally.
As it turned out, the other odometer had been broken in the first place, I
could see from the numbers that it had been scratched. And in the plastic
cover there was a small hole --> someone had made a hole and "helped" the
odometer to go forward every time this happened...
Well, I noticed how easily the original speedo/odometer came off of the
original cluster and started to change that one.
But of course when putting this one back together, I was tightening things
and wrapping things up... This happens:
One of those stubs broke and I needed to fix that with one through bolt...
The gear linkage position had changed a bit and the gear selection at the
tranny end did not always go to "P" position preventing the ignition. "N" worked
every time. I went under the car my self and asked my son to go back and forth
with the gears, I noticed that the shaft bushing was in very bad shape. So small
fix for that:
Well, other than those, I think there has not been any problems. One thing I need to
do this winter is to adjust the windows, they are not aligned as well as they could be.
I'll post an update when progressing with that.
What else I've been upto...
Got the next project under work:
1971 Plymouth Duster, a build thread ongoing:
http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showthread.php?t=283464
And just 1 week ago I got a birthday gift for my wife...
So I got my work again cut out for myself