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Water leak is about 98% cleared up, after approximately 10" of rain in the last 48 hours. The remainder is likely from the windshield, which has its original seal and will get replaced when I do the headliner. We had to get about 1" rain / hour to get it to leak there, however.
The gallon of water in the passenger's rear quarter, however - that was due to a missing lower fuel filler gasket and a disintegrating upper filler gasket. Literal faucet after pulling one of the plugs. Cleared the drains back there as well, so it won't happen again, but still need those gaskets.
EDIT - got a professional alignment done today, which was great as it was needed. The rig still wants to wander right, however. Air in the passenger front was low so added, then tested - cleared up some of the wandering, but then also checked the front shackle bushings and they are absolutely toast on the passenger side, which is shifting the whole axle that way just enough to mess with my steering. No bueno. Fortunately, I have some rubber ones on the shelf, so will get after that once the rain clears up.
However, that will probably screw up my professional alignment. Maybe not enough to matter, though. We'll see.
EDIT EDIT - alignment guy called me after I got home - "How was it on the freeway?" "Still pulls right, but I found a bad bushing on the pax side spring." "Fix the bushing, and if that doesn't fix the problem, bring it back and I'll redo the alignment for you." Service!!
Here's his contact info:
Allen's Alignment Center
9009 Sunland Blvd. in Sun Valley
818-504-0064
The gallon of water in the passenger's rear quarter, however - that was due to a missing lower fuel filler gasket and a disintegrating upper filler gasket. Literal faucet after pulling one of the plugs. Cleared the drains back there as well, so it won't happen again, but still need those gaskets.
EDIT - got a professional alignment done today, which was great as it was needed. The rig still wants to wander right, however. Air in the passenger front was low so added, then tested - cleared up some of the wandering, but then also checked the front shackle bushings and they are absolutely toast on the passenger side, which is shifting the whole axle that way just enough to mess with my steering. No bueno. Fortunately, I have some rubber ones on the shelf, so will get after that once the rain clears up.
However, that will probably screw up my professional alignment. Maybe not enough to matter, though. We'll see.
EDIT EDIT - alignment guy called me after I got home - "How was it on the freeway?" "Still pulls right, but I found a bad bushing on the pax side spring." "Fix the bushing, and if that doesn't fix the problem, bring it back and I'll redo the alignment for you." Service!!
Here's his contact info:
Allen's Alignment Center
9009 Sunland Blvd. in Sun Valley
818-504-0064
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So replaced the front shackle bushings - same problem, still pulled right but not quite so bad. Then, I read up about tire conicity or 'radial tire pull'. These tires aren't the best, they are some cheapo Indonesia whatevers that the PO put on there. With nothing to lose, swapped the front tires and voila - it is now pulling left instead of right! How 'bout that!
Going to swap fronts and rears tomorrow and see if that makes it go away entirely. Assuming it does, will just run these tires until they wear a bit more and then will upgrade both tires and wheels at the same time. I want to get after my crappy exhaust, and want to pull the carburetor to check for cracks in the manifold. I have a feeling I'm going to pull the whole shooting match and replace the gaskets, get the manifolds surfaced, etc. but want to see if I need to shop for a manifold first.
Going to swap fronts and rears tomorrow and see if that makes it go away entirely. Assuming it does, will just run these tires until they wear a bit more and then will upgrade both tires and wheels at the same time. I want to get after my crappy exhaust, and want to pull the carburetor to check for cracks in the manifold. I have a feeling I'm going to pull the whole shooting match and replace the gaskets, get the manifolds surfaced, etc. but want to see if I need to shop for a manifold first.
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Bro, those tires sound sketchy AF.
From a selfish perspective, because I’d like to keep reading posts from you, put some legitimate tires on there please?
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They're not "bad" per se.. to borrow a phrase, they are tires in the academic sense, they are round, they are made of rubber..
But point well taken and appreciated. It's interesting, the more I mess with cars, the more it pays to shell out for Michelins or KO2s or whatever. I've never had bad luck with Michelins, the Defenders that were on the 62 were great on road, fine for fire roads, but looked really hokey. These are aggressive meaty 31 x 10.5s, but tbh they'll be good for maybe another 3k miles. They were almost new when I got the truck in June.
Probably definitely a tire issue, but… I’ve found that going from 1/8” to about 3/16 or 1/4” of toe in really helped tighten up all aspects of the steering on both of my 60s.
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Alignment fixed with a tire rotation. Feels good on the freeway and bang on straight, now.
Lunch in the park in Pasadena. Roma sandwich, real Coke, some jalapeño chips and sunshine before the next round of rain.
Lunch in the park in Pasadena. Roma sandwich, real Coke, some jalapeño chips and sunshine before the next round of rain.
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Thanks. I think the shop did just under 1/2* all in toe. I have the sheet somewhere.
Mexican Coke helped make me the man I am today!
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Rosario (we call him Ross) is still there holding it down. Same chair, same apron. Saw him just this afternoon. This is also very close to Altadena, not more than a mile up the street was totally destroyed by the Eaton Fire in January.
Funny story - the first time I visited, I asked him what was in it. He yelled at me "No one's ever asked me that before!" and then told me, very irritated but smiling, and shoved a sandwich in my hands. I asked no further questions
March 14, 2020
The sandwich from Roma Market in Pasadena.
(Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)
Rosario Mazzeo says he hasn’t missed a single day of work in 70 years. The owner of Roma Market in Pasadena arrives at 4:30 a.m. and works until 8:30 p.m., seven days a week.
“This is my life,” he says on a recent morning, sitting in a chair opposite the entrance. “Not even one day I take off. I like what I’m doing.”
Mazzeo, 81, wears a black polo shirt with the Roma Market logo, jeans, black dress shoes and a blue apron. His dark eyebrows never fall, giving him the look of someone who is always on alert.
Rosario Mazzeo, owner of Roma Market in Pasadena, puts on a mask and sits in his deli on a recent morning.
(Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)
The location of Mazzeo’s chair, frayed with age, is strategic. From there he can study the room and scan for anyone who might need assistance. He can watch the entrance, the deli counter to his left, and the wine room to the right. Behind him is the prep room where his staff makes tomato sauce, ravioli (both using Mazzeo’s mother’s recipe) and of course, hundreds of Italian sandwiches. Or, as it’s known more colloquially, “the sandwich.”
The sandwich, as the late restaurant critic Jonathan Gold referred to it, is Mazzeo’s life’s work. Wrapped in cotton candy-colored butcher paper, its contents are simple and never change: crusty bread made by a Sicilian baker, a drizzle of good olive oil, a couple slices each of capicola, mortadella, salami and provolone. It has taken on legendary status over the years; a necessary stop for anyone who claims to know or love Italian sub sandwiches.
He invented his version in 1959, after a wine salesman requested something to eat.
Inside the prep room at Roma Market where hundreds of Mazzeo’s famous sandwiches are made every day.
(Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)
“It was by mistake,” Mazzeo says. The salesman asked for a sandwich at eight in the morning. Mazzeo told the man he didn’t make sandwiches. But the salesman persisted until Mazzeo took a piece of bread, added olive oil, three meats and cheese. The next day, five of the salesman’s coworkers showed up, asking for the sandwich. He started out selling them for 59 cents. Now they cost $5.50.
(He refuses to make substitutions, although he has added a vegetarian option with Provolone, Swiss and marinated artichokes, and now offers a version on ciabatta as well.)
Mazzeo stacks the sandwiches on the deli counter, making around 400 to 600 a day. Over the course of the morning, the mound shrinks and grows as it’s replenished, until it eventually disappears when Mazzeo runs out of bread.
During the pandemic, the store has been busier than ever. Despite his age, Mazzeo says he has never once thought about skipping work.
Stacks of sandwiches inside Roma Market.
(Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)
As customers wander around the store, he sits, watches and waits for inquiries about a new wine shipment or a jar of olive oil.
“You have a good day, OK?” he calls to a man and his son, both clutching sandwiches.
Mazzeo, who started working at his parents’ deli in Sicily when he was 10, can’t recall a family member who wasn’t in the deli business.
He moved to Los Angeles in 1950 at the request of an uncle who needed help running his produce market. The uncle had opened Roma in 1946 in the parking lot where the market now stands, at the corner of Mountain Street and Lake Avenue in Pasadena.
In 1960, Mazzeo expanded the market and added a slew of imported Italian products and the deli counter to more closely resemble his parents’ place back in Sicily.
The market is organized as a series of clusters and boxes: Bags of nuts, boxes of candies, jars of olive oil, a crate of orange soda. Christmas decorations hang from the ceiling year-round, alongside cured meats.
Roma Market owner Rosario Mazzeo helps a customer select some produce.
(Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)
Mazzeo knows where everything is. After a customer asks him for a particular bottle of wine, he gets up from his chair without hesitation, walks slowly to where it’s hiding behind another bottle, and hands it to him.
For years Mazzeo stood behind the deli counter, slicing the meats himself and offering samples. But age and a bad back have forced him to slowly migrate from standing behind the counter to sitting behind the counter, in his current spot in the middle of the shop, in his frayed chair. But when it gets busy, Mazzeo is right back behind the counter.
“They do it OK,” he says of his five employees. “They can’t do like I do. My customers want to see me.”
A woman stands in front of Mazzeo, gently patting melons, trying to find the right one. He chooses one for her, telling her, “This is a good one.”
“I live a simple life,” he says as he sits back down. “I’m here, I’m home, I’m happy.”
918 N. Lake Ave., Pasadena, (626) 797-7748
Funny story - the first time I visited, I asked him what was in it. He yelled at me "No one's ever asked me that before!" and then told me, very irritated but smiling, and shoved a sandwich in my hands. I asked no further questions
The 81-year-old behind the best Italian sandwich in Pasadena
July 10, 2020 7 AM PTMarch 14, 2020
The sandwich from Roma Market in Pasadena.
(Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)
Rosario Mazzeo says he hasn’t missed a single day of work in 70 years. The owner of Roma Market in Pasadena arrives at 4:30 a.m. and works until 8:30 p.m., seven days a week.
“This is my life,” he says on a recent morning, sitting in a chair opposite the entrance. “Not even one day I take off. I like what I’m doing.”
Mazzeo, 81, wears a black polo shirt with the Roma Market logo, jeans, black dress shoes and a blue apron. His dark eyebrows never fall, giving him the look of someone who is always on alert.
Rosario Mazzeo, owner of Roma Market in Pasadena, puts on a mask and sits in his deli on a recent morning.
(Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)
The location of Mazzeo’s chair, frayed with age, is strategic. From there he can study the room and scan for anyone who might need assistance. He can watch the entrance, the deli counter to his left, and the wine room to the right. Behind him is the prep room where his staff makes tomato sauce, ravioli (both using Mazzeo’s mother’s recipe) and of course, hundreds of Italian sandwiches. Or, as it’s known more colloquially, “the sandwich.”
The sandwich, as the late restaurant critic Jonathan Gold referred to it, is Mazzeo’s life’s work. Wrapped in cotton candy-colored butcher paper, its contents are simple and never change: crusty bread made by a Sicilian baker, a drizzle of good olive oil, a couple slices each of capicola, mortadella, salami and provolone. It has taken on legendary status over the years; a necessary stop for anyone who claims to know or love Italian sub sandwiches.
He invented his version in 1959, after a wine salesman requested something to eat.
Inside the prep room at Roma Market where hundreds of Mazzeo’s famous sandwiches are made every day.
(Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)
“It was by mistake,” Mazzeo says. The salesman asked for a sandwich at eight in the morning. Mazzeo told the man he didn’t make sandwiches. But the salesman persisted until Mazzeo took a piece of bread, added olive oil, three meats and cheese. The next day, five of the salesman’s coworkers showed up, asking for the sandwich. He started out selling them for 59 cents. Now they cost $5.50.
(He refuses to make substitutions, although he has added a vegetarian option with Provolone, Swiss and marinated artichokes, and now offers a version on ciabatta as well.)
Mazzeo stacks the sandwiches on the deli counter, making around 400 to 600 a day. Over the course of the morning, the mound shrinks and grows as it’s replenished, until it eventually disappears when Mazzeo runs out of bread.
During the pandemic, the store has been busier than ever. Despite his age, Mazzeo says he has never once thought about skipping work.
Stacks of sandwiches inside Roma Market.
(Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)
As customers wander around the store, he sits, watches and waits for inquiries about a new wine shipment or a jar of olive oil.
“You have a good day, OK?” he calls to a man and his son, both clutching sandwiches.
Mazzeo, who started working at his parents’ deli in Sicily when he was 10, can’t recall a family member who wasn’t in the deli business.
He moved to Los Angeles in 1950 at the request of an uncle who needed help running his produce market. The uncle had opened Roma in 1946 in the parking lot where the market now stands, at the corner of Mountain Street and Lake Avenue in Pasadena.
In 1960, Mazzeo expanded the market and added a slew of imported Italian products and the deli counter to more closely resemble his parents’ place back in Sicily.
The market is organized as a series of clusters and boxes: Bags of nuts, boxes of candies, jars of olive oil, a crate of orange soda. Christmas decorations hang from the ceiling year-round, alongside cured meats.
Roma Market owner Rosario Mazzeo helps a customer select some produce.
(Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)
Mazzeo knows where everything is. After a customer asks him for a particular bottle of wine, he gets up from his chair without hesitation, walks slowly to where it’s hiding behind another bottle, and hands it to him.
For years Mazzeo stood behind the deli counter, slicing the meats himself and offering samples. But age and a bad back have forced him to slowly migrate from standing behind the counter to sitting behind the counter, in his current spot in the middle of the shop, in his frayed chair. But when it gets busy, Mazzeo is right back behind the counter.
“They do it OK,” he says of his five employees. “They can’t do like I do. My customers want to see me.”
A woman stands in front of Mazzeo, gently patting melons, trying to find the right one. He chooses one for her, telling her, “This is a good one.”
“I live a simple life,” he says as he sits back down. “I’m here, I’m home, I’m happy.”
918 N. Lake Ave., Pasadena, (626) 797-7748
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Welp.. it was a good 3 month run with the rebuilt power steering pump. Went to the Huntington during the holiday break, and smelled the hot stink of ATF as I was trolling for parking. Opened the hood and it was all over driver's side front of the engine bay. Not much on the smog pump thankfully. I started walking to the entrance and called Valley Hybrids @orangefj45 to get an order in for a Saginaw conversion kit before they closed for the New Year holiday.
Didn't have much time once work started back up, plus we had torrential rain the entire break, so today was the first day I was able to get after it. Overall it was a pretty easy job, with a few technical items. I've not dealt with a friction fit pulley like this before, and it turned out that was the hardest part of the whole thing.
First up is the bracket mod. Basically, on the 83, all I needed to do was lop off that rear mounting point. Diablo sawzall blade made quick work of that, and hit with the grinder and a little black paint, and all was good to go.
Then it was time to install the kit. Few notes - it looks like you can install the bracket AFTER the pulley is installed, given that the Dorman pulley has the holes in it. However, don't do this - install the conversion block and modified bracket on the conversion block, THEN install the pulley. Unfortunately the inner diameter of the pulley slopes down, and while you can get the bolts into their holes, they go in at an angle and then you end up with some cross threading problems. I had to figure this out the hard way...
Pulley iInstalled, but as I was figuring out the whole thing I described above. This is the Autozone 7023 pump, pulley comes with the Valley Hybrids kit.
Also, the O'Reilly rental tool doesn't work - get this one from OEM (Autozone).
I also got the modified new high pressure line, installed that, filled with ATF and put it back together, and all was good. On a quick drive around the block, it seems about the same effort as the stock pump, but where it really shines is in low speed maneuvers, like pulling in the driveway. I would often feel the stock pump crap out as I turned into the driveway, and got none of that with the new Saginaw. Looking forward to driving this more!
I also got after a slow leak in the driver's front tire - a quick visit to my local dealer (all the tire shops were jammed at 3pm on a Saturday, go figure), and they found a leaky valve stem. 5 minutes later and they were all changed out, love it when stuff is free and easy to fix! I owe those guys a beer.
That's it for now. Changing out trans gear oil tomorrow.
Didn't have much time once work started back up, plus we had torrential rain the entire break, so today was the first day I was able to get after it. Overall it was a pretty easy job, with a few technical items. I've not dealt with a friction fit pulley like this before, and it turned out that was the hardest part of the whole thing.
First up is the bracket mod. Basically, on the 83, all I needed to do was lop off that rear mounting point. Diablo sawzall blade made quick work of that, and hit with the grinder and a little black paint, and all was good to go.
Then it was time to install the kit. Few notes - it looks like you can install the bracket AFTER the pulley is installed, given that the Dorman pulley has the holes in it. However, don't do this - install the conversion block and modified bracket on the conversion block, THEN install the pulley. Unfortunately the inner diameter of the pulley slopes down, and while you can get the bolts into their holes, they go in at an angle and then you end up with some cross threading problems. I had to figure this out the hard way...
Pulley iInstalled, but as I was figuring out the whole thing I described above. This is the Autozone 7023 pump, pulley comes with the Valley Hybrids kit.
Also, the O'Reilly rental tool doesn't work - get this one from OEM (Autozone).
I also got the modified new high pressure line, installed that, filled with ATF and put it back together, and all was good. On a quick drive around the block, it seems about the same effort as the stock pump, but where it really shines is in low speed maneuvers, like pulling in the driveway. I would often feel the stock pump crap out as I turned into the driveway, and got none of that with the new Saginaw. Looking forward to driving this more!
I also got after a slow leak in the driver's front tire - a quick visit to my local dealer (all the tire shops were jammed at 3pm on a Saturday, go figure), and they found a leaky valve stem. 5 minutes later and they were all changed out, love it when stuff is free and easy to fix! I owe those guys a beer.
That's it for now. Changing out trans gear oil tomorrow.
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So it turned out that I had this weekend open for some wrenching - but realized it way too late to hit up my usual spots and ended up needing to order parts from the dealer. This time, it's the... manifold gasket. (cue dramatic music.) Not my favorite job by a long shot. Maybe second only to R&R the trans and transfer case. A long way of saying, not my best day in the garage, fighting with that damn rear 14mm bolt to get it to thread in when replacing the manifold.
The good news? The manifolds are in good shape. Like really good. Aside from the yellow mouse piss, that was quite literally everywhere. It appears one reason I may have had slightly lower vacuum was because the lower 17mm bolts were barely threaded into the head, like finger tight. I probably could have mostly fixed it by just torquing those down, but you know we didn't come all this way just to turn back around, did we?
Both shots are pre-cleanup.
I did buy the gaskets that go between the two halves, but since this all looked tight and shipshape, and a straightedge didn't pick up warpage, I decided against replacing them at the moment.
However, the fight I had with that damn bolt. Ended up having to remove the manifold again, line up the rear side with the new gasket, and then re-mount. Many, many swear words later, and it's about 2/3 of the way back together. The rest is just the carb and reattaching the 5 million vacuum hoses, and probably resetting lean drop. I also rechecked all of the AIR nuts, and found the rearmost one just finger tight as well.
To top it all off, started working out again yesterday and was already crazy sore from that. Ugh.
The good news? The manifolds are in good shape. Like really good. Aside from the yellow mouse piss, that was quite literally everywhere. It appears one reason I may have had slightly lower vacuum was because the lower 17mm bolts were barely threaded into the head, like finger tight. I probably could have mostly fixed it by just torquing those down, but you know we didn't come all this way just to turn back around, did we?
Both shots are pre-cleanup.
I did buy the gaskets that go between the two halves, but since this all looked tight and shipshape, and a straightedge didn't pick up warpage, I decided against replacing them at the moment.
However, the fight I had with that damn bolt. Ended up having to remove the manifold again, line up the rear side with the new gasket, and then re-mount. Many, many swear words later, and it's about 2/3 of the way back together. The rest is just the carb and reattaching the 5 million vacuum hoses, and probably resetting lean drop. I also rechecked all of the AIR nuts, and found the rearmost one just finger tight as well.
To top it all off, started working out again yesterday and was already crazy sore from that. Ugh.
That’s SO good, I’d be curious to run a tailpipe test just for the heck of itFor the win. This is at 630 rpm after setting lean drop. Purrs like a 2F should.
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It's all in the carb rebuild magic
Yeah I was thinking the same thing.I was also thinking about how it ran before I did this, and that while lumpy, it was by no means un-driveable. Kind of amazing, these old things.
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Bakersfield Swap Meet and Rally this morning - got up bright and early for the drive up, rig did perfect over the Grapevine and back. Some photos, caravan on the way up with @65swb45 and @daveb, no issues for anyone there or back:
Rigs:
And pups. This is Kodiak and he wants all your attention:
All in a fun day out on a drive. There's a bit of a vibration coming from the rear driveshaft - was messing with the U-joint last week and I think it's worse than it was before, so that needs replacing.
Also - parts ordered for the headliner. Rear quarter seals are here from City Racer and headliner on order from Cruiser Corps. Time to get that party started!
Rigs:
And pups. This is Kodiak and he wants all your attention:
All in a fun day out on a drive. There's a bit of a vibration coming from the rear driveshaft - was messing with the U-joint last week and I think it's worse than it was before, so that needs replacing.
Also - parts ordered for the headliner. Rear quarter seals are here from City Racer and headliner on order from Cruiser Corps. Time to get that party started!