67 GTS 4-Speed: Daily Summer Driver
Thanks FJRdoc... I am beginning to feel the circumstance of the "life gets in the way"... So much going on!!
Well the past month has been crazy from going places, stuff at work, stuff with my housing situation with stuff dealing on furthering my career. Didnt help that during that entire month of craziness I was trying to figure out why the convertible left me stranded on the side of the 376. That is covered in the Thread "Beyond Frustrated - wont start/stay running". But the gist is the distributor gear broke off two teeth. And something was either screwy with the weights or bushings in the distributor. Eventually got everything fixed up with a new distributor and runs smoother than ever!
But did find some good things are Carlisle this year. Was looking for a power steer pump and gear for the GTS and the friend that always goes with us to Carlisle claims he had those parts from a crashed car he got. Which would work perfect! because I was only going to use them as cores away. But I also go some ballast resistors and a turn signal switch. So all I need is to get a bearing for the column and that can go together
But With all of that above!! I was able to mask off the grill for the GTS and I got it primed and painted this past weekend!!
I think it came out very well. So the steering column is going to take the back seat for a bit (really dont need it soon anyway, just nice to make progress on some parts of the car). I have some parts I sanded and primed for the charger the old man and I are working on and the grill and head light buckets for the convertible that I polished and now need to be masked, primed and shoot. So I still need to do the masking on those parts, but after that it is just shooting which shouldnt take long. But next weekend I am hoping to get home to finish up getting the temporary exhaust head pipes fabed up (passenger side is done, still need to weld the drivers side up at an angle), finish routing the carb fuel line, get the front pulleys on, belts on, fan on, hoses on, wiring for the starter, starter relay in and then... trying to crank it over, set the dwell and see if we can get this thing started!!!
Stay tuned!!!
Thanks FJRdoc... I am beginning to feel the circumstance of the "life gets in the way"... So much going on!!
Well the past month has been crazy from going places, stuff at work, stuff with my housing situation with stuff dealing on furthering my career. Didnt help that during that entire month of craziness I was trying to figure out why the convertible left me stranded on the side of the 376. That is covered in the Thread "Beyond Frustrated - wont start/stay running". But the gist is the distributor gear broke off two teeth. And something was either screwy with the weights or bushings in the distributor. Eventually got everything fixed up with a new distributor and runs smoother than ever!
But did find some good things are Carlisle this year. Was looking for a power steer pump and gear for the GTS and the friend that always goes with us to Carlisle claims he had those parts from a crashed car he got. Which would work perfect! because I was only going to use them as cores away. But I also go some ballast resistors and a turn signal switch. So all I need is to get a bearing for the column and that can go together
But With all of that above!! I was able to mask off the grill for the GTS and I got it primed and painted this past weekend!!
I think it came out very well. So the steering column is going to take the back seat for a bit (really dont need it soon anyway, just nice to make progress on some parts of the car). I have some parts I sanded and primed for the charger the old man and I are working on and the grill and head light buckets for the convertible that I polished and now need to be masked, primed and shoot. So I still need to do the masking on those parts, but after that it is just shooting which shouldnt take long. But next weekend I am hoping to get home to finish up getting the temporary exhaust head pipes fabed up (passenger side is done, still need to weld the drivers side up at an angle), finish routing the carb fuel line, get the front pulleys on, belts on, fan on, hoses on, wiring for the starter, starter relay in and then... trying to crank it over, set the dwell and see if we can get this thing started!!!
Stay tuned!!!