72 duster Build progress

95teetee said
yep, the body lines look excellent- nice to see it getting so close:thumleft:

Thank you!

SpeedracerX said
I have to agree with you Jerrod.. I was very tempted to put the Dart together enough to drive it once in was in primer.. You know, take it for a spin, burnouts and all that good stuff.. but I knew deep down if I did, I would never finish.. LOL .. It was hard to resist.. but it was worth it...

I will still find time to back it out for a burn out or cruise around the block real quick lol.

anyhow....taking a bit of a break on body work....I think what I am going to do next is drop the tank and clean it out real good (seen rust settiment in my fuel filter) and every once and awhile then engine bogs a little at the top end when I rev it and you can watch the carb empty the fuel out of the filter when it happens. (last time it did it i took the line off and blew air through it and started it up and it ran good again for awhile) so im fairly sure that theres some crud in the bottom of that tank. I got a new fuel pump to just for the heck of it. I do still need to get a filler tube grommet because mines dry rotted from being 40 years old lol.

after i get all that done I am hoping i can work up the cash to get my transgo tf-2 shift kit and drop the pan and valve body and while im right there installing that i will install new shift shaft seals ( got a pretty good trans leak and im pretty sure thats where the leaks coming from. and also while I am right there i am going to install my new stainless braided kick down cable i have yet to install.

THEN Ill get back on the body work. I am HOPING I can have the car painted and basically about done by july. but ill just have to see how things go.

ill keep you guys all up to date on what im doing as i do it