Another month and half… Spent more money, but not a lot of progress. I tried my hand at replacing some rivets and failed miserably. The rivets didn’t like getting hot and staying hot and large pieces were falling off despite out best efforts to...
Well it gets way colder here and lots of fog on occasion too. Climbing Hilltop here in the winter was a struggle. If it made it to the top with out choking out is was rare. Usually it was pull over and wait like 1/2 hour for the ice to melt -...
Does it get cold where you are? Yes consider making/buying a fluid heat riser for the bottom of the intake manifold - will prevent carburetor icing most of the time...
So I took apart the air cleaner and separated the flapper from its base. And then…I dropped it. Is it necessary? My plan is to install headers, which means the bracket for the warm air hose won’t/can’t be reinstalled. Photos below for reference...
Ok, it’s done and it looks a whole lot better. The shop removed the inner plate for the center arm and the shackle mount to straighten the frame and then welded them back on. They had to do the inner plate twice though because when I went to pick...
Thanks for all the help. I got behind the plate with a screw driver to put pressure on the nut and and finally got the nut off of the outer door handle and the threads mush have been cross threaded at the factory and now the threads are wiped...
Another month and a half has gone by. Got a little stuff done. I got the square tubing for the spring mount repair, but I didn’t like the fit. It needed to be a little wider to fit center better over the mount, so instead I had some plates made...
I had to replace my crossmember and rebuild that section of the frame rail years ago. The PO hacked sag p/s by cutting a huge hole in the crossmember for the steering box. The frame rail evetually cracked at the crossmember and would no longer...