Finished this one up, all the way down to new brass butterfly screws and every steel part zinc plated. Well that’s a lie, the slow cut valve rod isn’t - which I need to find a way to remove without breaking the aluminum.
Yeah it is going to get choked out! With all the smog crap.
But cruisers are slow running cars not made for speed.
They give you time to enjoy your surroundings.
Drove this thing 20 miles open header to the fab shop lol. It got a little hotter than normal, but I’m not sure if that’s due to the emission equipment or if the exhaust dumping in the engine bay. I guess we will have to see how it runs after the...
Finally got the right belt TR22434. Perfectly landed the pump in the middle of the adjustment bracket.
I was able to drop everything else into place and fire it up. We got a runner!
It’s crazy how small a belt size change affects the position of the pump. The 43 1/8” puts it at the left of the adjustment bracket, and 44 13/16” puts it at the opposite end of the bracket lol. I got a 44” coming tomorrow 🤞🏼
Installed the fuse link kit from Cruiser Trash. The mounting bracket that is included made this a super clean install. The second picture is where it plugs into the factory harness in place of the factory fusible link. Right from the start I...
Thanks! Hoping to start it this week, got an appointment to fab up a midpipe to join headers and exhaust on sat 🤞🏼
Got the smog pump belt on before I called it a night. Kind of sucks I had to take the alternator and fan clutch off to do so...
just a heads up, timing cover bolts are hole specific, caution when installing the crank seal, leave cover loose install crank pulley to center cover then tighten cover,
pulling the cam? get a side cover, valve cover and the 4 nut seal gaskets also
Yesterday afternoon I drove it up on the wash rack and started cleaning the underside and knocked off as much of the poorly-applied-to-everything (Tcase, springs, axles, etc) POR 15.
It came off in huge flakes. Took a while but I got most of it...
Michael the owner drove it all of the way from his office here which is about 40 miles. It arrived seemingly fine and we gave it a look see and he took a tour of the shop. I don’t have a lot here to show off here right now but he got the idea he...