Build The Warthog - 1977/73 combo

[wngrog]

The speedo seal worked. No drips.

Spent a few hours putting on this damn fuel pump. The PO of course used 8 oz of RTV so that's likely the reason the pump was dumping fuel into the oil.

 

[wngrog]

I replaced the pump. Probably only needed to replace the gasket but I'm the king of throwing parts at s*** and Hoping it fixes the problem

I also got a thermostat from @beno while I was at it. Went to open the housing and one of the bolts is stuck. I poured the Kroil to it but I'm pretty sure it's going to snap off.

That's another $200 coming. Since I have to do that I'll go ahead and do the hoses.

:tarbaby:

I got the Pig all teed up to slap the new @Racer65 carb on and peel out some but UPS has lost it so I'm gonna do something else this weekend.

 

[wngrog]

I went cheap on the brake booster and got a reman Mini truck one off Amazon.

Of course it requires a spacer that also got lost by UPS

It's out and ready.

 

[wngrog]

Back to the combo of the two Pigs.

My 77 has a big ass hole in the pan and the donor pig had decent metal there so I cut it out and will weld this into my 77

I can't wait to scrape that glue off

 

[wngrog]

Another stroke of luck is that the passenger floorboard that is rotted on my 77 is perfect on the 73 so It's about to get the same hack.

My 77 above

The 73 is solid

 

[LAMBCRUSHER]

older metal is better metal...

 

[bobm]

Use a hammer and flat blade screwdriver to get black stuff off floor

 

[wngrog]

Moving around tires on Monday.

Old BFG MTs going to the Pig. I'll be laying paint on these a couple times over the weekend.

 

[G-Cat]

Smoke Gray...me too...because @Texican said so.

 

[wngrog]

I had a busted bolt in my themo housing. I called Beno and the damn thing is $100 so I tapped out the bolt. That sucked ass.

 

[wngrog]

So then I looked real close at my seats and thought....man. As a jihad Pig they would be fine but now that I am doing the headliner and such I need to have something nicer than that.

So, I yanked em.

I'm going to see what Pedro will cover them for.

Then I decided the rear heater is dumb and pulled it out. It's for sale now.

Now I can get busy on cleaning and patching the floor. It's not going to be too bad with the donor pig steel.

 

[wngrog]

Use a hammer and flat blade screwdriver to get black stuff off floor

For the love of God.

 

[USMC22]

I'll switch projects with you

 

[bobm]

Like this you didn't think it was easy did ya .

 

[bobm]

Put stainless heli-coils and hardware in thermostat housing. You'll never break it again. Anti seize too.

 

[bobm]

Best way to get that black stuff off floor is new floor pans

 

[LAMBCRUSHER]

dry ice...

 

[wngrog]

I got that s*** off. Got it in place. Starting to come together.

One step at a time

 

[wngrog]

In my ADD moment, I got my hoses in from Slo Cruisers and went to work swapping out old rubber.

One belt.

These belts were soon to blow.

 

[wngrog]

The top hose is right. The bypass hose is OEM. The bottom hoses are way off. I cut them and jacked it all around and mostly got the hoses right.

The coolant pipe was nasty.

I'm installing and cleaning as I go. Not trying to go crazy in the engine Bay but making it nice and stopping rust