Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
Well, the pushrods arrived from Smith Brothers on Tuesday March 29th late in the afternoon. With the fan off of the motor, I marked the harmonic balancer every 90' and set about installing & adjusting them according to Mopar's sequence guide. I took my time so it wasn't until the wee hours when I finished. It was too late to do much else so I connected the battery booster and trickled a charge into it to make sure it would be fully charged.
The weather here has been really erratic. The calendar may say it's Spring but we've gotten snow 3 times during the past few weeks. The older I get the more I tend to avoid any more misery than I have to endure. The car was put on hold again as I waited for nicer conditions.
In the meanwhile A friend of mine invited me to a tour of a 'private musclecar collection' in Syracuse, Nebraska. The owner is said to have the second largest collection of musclecars in all the world. They were totally original, - no clones.
According to what I was told, the cars were all going to be moved to Florida because the billionaire owner was being pushed by the state of Nebraska to license, insure, and pay taxes on all of them despite the fact they were all stored inside.
Over half of the collection had already been transported to Florida including the majority of the Chrysler products. Most of the remaining cars were Shelby Mustangs, Yenko cars, and pace cars but a few Mopars still remained.
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Well, the pushrods arrived from Smith Brothers on Tuesday March 29th late in the afternoon. With the fan off of the motor, I marked the harmonic balancer every 90' and set about installing & adjusting them according to Mopar's sequence guide. I took my time so it wasn't until the wee hours when I finished. It was too late to do much else so I connected the battery booster and trickled a charge into it to make sure it would be fully charged.
The weather here has been really erratic. The calendar may say it's Spring but we've gotten snow 3 times during the past few weeks. The older I get the more I tend to avoid any more misery than I have to endure. The car was put on hold again as I waited for nicer conditions.
In the meanwhile A friend of mine invited me to a tour of a 'private musclecar collection' in Syracuse, Nebraska. The owner is said to have the second largest collection of musclecars in all the world. They were totally original, - no clones.
According to what I was told, the cars were all going to be moved to Florida because the billionaire owner was being pushed by the state of Nebraska to license, insure, and pay taxes on all of them despite the fact they were all stored inside.
Over half of the collection had already been transported to Florida including the majority of the Chrysler products. Most of the remaining cars were Shelby Mustangs, Yenko cars, and pace cars but a few Mopars still remained.
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