Recent content by TexasRoach

Hi Matt. I'd be interested in what you're asking for the hard top and/or the doors. I was planning on going with a soft top but you got me waffling when I saw your hard top. Thanks, Dave

Dropped off my '74 with Javier at Gulf Coast Crawl Shop in Houston (thanks for the lead @duggy...Javier knows his stuff). The road to restoration has begun. Working on the radiator, headers, installing new fan & shroud, master cylinder, disc brakes, some bodywork, repaint, stereo/speakers...

I've got jump seats in my '74.

Awesome rig! Congrats, and welcome!

Awesome rig and fantastic workmanship my man. :beer:

Well I spent an hour trying to get that drain plug loose using the two-wrench technique to keep from torquing it off and it wouldn't budge. I took it back to the shop and confirmed that yes they did flush it but did so with a vacuum system...didn't take the drain plug out. Which explains why I...

Good call on the block drain...wouldn't have known to do that as well but a little You Tube education and I think I know where to look for it. Dad may very well have used some stop-leak product at some point in the last 30-odd years.

It is a 4 speed manual transmission.

Test 2 complete...no geyser of coolant. Plan going forward is to try to get that drain plug loose and do the flush. I will still take it for a compression test to be sure though. Is it possible that because Dad had it sitting for so long putting no more than about a dozen miles per year on it...

@RAGINGMATT Test 1 complete. This looks like normal oil color and viscosity to me. Whatcha' think? Test 2 to follow...stay tuned.

Y’all are awesome. Thanks a ton. Guess I know what I’m doing tomorrow.

Im SO glad you said that. I was just wondering about that a few minutes ago. Thanks! 👍🏻

Ok, well I'm not a total moron. :clap:

I was going to go ahead with the flush since I already got all the stuff to do it and when I tried to drain the radiator I found the drain screw to be pretty well stuck. I was afraid to torque on the thing too hard for fear of snapping the damn thing off. When I first brought it home I took the...

@RAGINGMATT well...damn. Should I bother with the flush at this point or would you recommend the compression test first?