What Are You Doing To/With Your Car Today?
Not just today, but the last few weeks.
Drove up to Reno from the bay area and picked up a 1991 360 roller block for $250. I didn't want the busted 4wd tranny, so left that there. I ended up driving around with it in the back of my jeep for two weeks because my son's 6th birthday has priority over car stuff.
Unloading it was easier than I expected. Here it is in the back. I used a prybar and wood to prop it up, and reached the cherry-picker in and over it, and slowly worked it to vertical.
That oil you see on the floor is from the AWESOME-SPECTACULAR Harbor Freight jack on the cherry-picker. I doubt that I will be keeping the flex plate and torque converter because plans call for another cam. The engine came out of a W350, and I don't expect to be pulling a 5th wheel horse trailer behind the barracuda.
Block casting number I started a thread on it here ----> 53006921. You can see the block is painted black like a Magnum block, even though it's a LA block. I dunno when they started doing that. I'm just going to clean it up, and depending on how lazy I'm feeling, I may, or may not paint it blue, orange, or red as the fancy strikes me. I was thinking breast cancer pink because my wife's ordeal over the last year and a half.
Last week, I got in the mail, THIS from Schumacher...
Next on the list is a set of motor mounts from them, as I am currently running a 318, and the ones in there are 50 years old.
Yesterday, car wash and a sunburn with a generous helping of brake dust on the front wheels. EBC Yellowstuff pads grab really nice, but you pay for it with that dust.
Today I did what I should have done over a year ago, when I got my turn signal switch replacement from @slantsixdan the part number is TS102 his website is Daniel Stern Lighting Consultancy and Supply Thank you Dan for the awesome part!
Continued in next post.
Not just today, but the last few weeks.
Drove up to Reno from the bay area and picked up a 1991 360 roller block for $250. I didn't want the busted 4wd tranny, so left that there. I ended up driving around with it in the back of my jeep for two weeks because my son's 6th birthday has priority over car stuff.
Unloading it was easier than I expected. Here it is in the back. I used a prybar and wood to prop it up, and reached the cherry-picker in and over it, and slowly worked it to vertical.
That oil you see on the floor is from the AWESOME-SPECTACULAR Harbor Freight jack on the cherry-picker. I doubt that I will be keeping the flex plate and torque converter because plans call for another cam. The engine came out of a W350, and I don't expect to be pulling a 5th wheel horse trailer behind the barracuda.
Block casting number I started a thread on it here ----> 53006921. You can see the block is painted black like a Magnum block, even though it's a LA block. I dunno when they started doing that. I'm just going to clean it up, and depending on how lazy I'm feeling, I may, or may not paint it blue, orange, or red as the fancy strikes me. I was thinking breast cancer pink because my wife's ordeal over the last year and a half.
Last week, I got in the mail, THIS from Schumacher...
Next on the list is a set of motor mounts from them, as I am currently running a 318, and the ones in there are 50 years old.
Yesterday, car wash and a sunburn with a generous helping of brake dust on the front wheels. EBC Yellowstuff pads grab really nice, but you pay for it with that dust.
Today I did what I should have done over a year ago, when I got my turn signal switch replacement from @slantsixdan the part number is TS102 his website is Daniel Stern Lighting Consultancy and Supply Thank you Dan for the awesome part!
Continued in next post.