Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback

I wasn't as productive yesterday as I wanted to be. I did manage to get some work done before one of my buddies stopped over asking if I could give him a hand. He'd purchased a 340 off of Craigslist and needed to pick it up. We loaded up my cherry picker and headed across town.

We could have been back in 20 minutes but it just ain't right to skip the obligatory bullshit session when picking up Mopar parts. After checking out the seller's '73 383 Challenger and '71 340 Challenger we headed back to my garage.

Ray (my buddy that just bought the 340) doesn't own a computer. He'd heard that the NHRA had changed some of the horsepower indexes and asked me to check online to verify. He runs stock class with whichever car he has that is most likely to be most competitive. He's got a pair of Chargers (68 & 70), a pair of A12 Superbees (69s), a Roadrunner (69), and a GTX (71) to choose from. After cruising the 'net for awhile Ray helped me wrangle the Roadrunner's front seat back into the car. It was close to midnight and I decided to put off the rest of the work for another day.

I finished everything I had left on my list this morning, but when I tried to fire the car up I discovered that I'd run the battery down while I was doing all of the troubleshooting on the lighting system. So while the battery is being charged I checked the front wheel bearings. One of the dust caps had come off before and I wanted to make sure everything was OK. - Nothing wrong that I could find. It seems as though the two dust caps were just a bit undersized. I flared the ends out a little so they'd fit tighter.