Slow, Driving Rustoration 1972 Dart
This brings us to Thursday, last night. First things first, I pulled the brakes apart on the leaking wheel cylinder and extracted it from the backing plate. Got it up on the workbench and immediately one of the things I thought had happened had happened. The right side cup was completely pressed over into the left side, so it was actually past the fluid inlet hole in the cylinder. So the only thing holding the brake fluid in was the piston. It was hard to get the cups out but I did. I cleaned up the cups and cylinders and boots and reinstalled it. I was feeling better already.
Started bleeding again. I had read that the bleeder screw threads themselves allowed air in under vacuum. SMH. Yep, I carefully teflon taped each bleeder, opened the first screw and immediately got clear fluid with the vacuum!
I have brakes! Here are all the parts I replaced
The night was young so I installed the gas tank. I had forgotten to repaint the floor above where the gas tank goes so while that was drying I decided to change the starter.
Trying to install the new starter I couldn't get the faces to tighten flush, it felt wedged. Finally I realized the back of the starter was hitting a brace bolt on the engine block. It turns out the new starter field housing was longer than mine. So I blew out all of the brass dust from the old one, lubricated the shaft and cleaned the contacts and put the old one back in. Thanks Autozone. :mad:
Gas tank was easy. New j-bolts and a new tank pad. I put gas in it, used the vacuum pump to pull fuel up to the carb. Boom, it's running again.
I "installed" "universal" muffler. It was not. It hangs way too low. Also I have no idea what I'm doing lol. I've never done anything but bolt on exhaust stuff, but it will work till I get dual exhaust installed later. It is quieter.
Here is the picture of my disaster area of a garage. I need to go in there and put stuff away again. I should have taken a before picture. Prior to last night that tandem bike was hanging vertically in the way. I hit my head on the handlebars at least 40 times before I finally hung it horizontally and more out of the way. Maybe hitting my head so many times is why I can't ever find anything. It's really as bad as it looks, but it almost works for me. The next thing on the list is finally painting the roof and fixing the floor pan rust and carpet, because I got my carpet yesterday! I took it to the carwash to wash off the crap and drove it for about 5 miles. The brakes are great. No more pumping, no more drastic pull to the left! Thanks for listening.
This brings us to Thursday, last night. First things first, I pulled the brakes apart on the leaking wheel cylinder and extracted it from the backing plate. Got it up on the workbench and immediately one of the things I thought had happened had happened. The right side cup was completely pressed over into the left side, so it was actually past the fluid inlet hole in the cylinder. So the only thing holding the brake fluid in was the piston. It was hard to get the cups out but I did. I cleaned up the cups and cylinders and boots and reinstalled it. I was feeling better already.
Started bleeding again. I had read that the bleeder screw threads themselves allowed air in under vacuum. SMH. Yep, I carefully teflon taped each bleeder, opened the first screw and immediately got clear fluid with the vacuum!
I have brakes! Here are all the parts I replaced
The night was young so I installed the gas tank. I had forgotten to repaint the floor above where the gas tank goes so while that was drying I decided to change the starter.
Trying to install the new starter I couldn't get the faces to tighten flush, it felt wedged. Finally I realized the back of the starter was hitting a brace bolt on the engine block. It turns out the new starter field housing was longer than mine. So I blew out all of the brass dust from the old one, lubricated the shaft and cleaned the contacts and put the old one back in. Thanks Autozone. :mad:
Gas tank was easy. New j-bolts and a new tank pad. I put gas in it, used the vacuum pump to pull fuel up to the carb. Boom, it's running again.
I "installed" "universal" muffler. It was not. It hangs way too low. Also I have no idea what I'm doing lol. I've never done anything but bolt on exhaust stuff, but it will work till I get dual exhaust installed later. It is quieter.
Here is the picture of my disaster area of a garage. I need to go in there and put stuff away again. I should have taken a before picture. Prior to last night that tandem bike was hanging vertically in the way. I hit my head on the handlebars at least 40 times before I finally hung it horizontally and more out of the way. Maybe hitting my head so many times is why I can't ever find anything. It's really as bad as it looks, but it almost works for me. The next thing on the list is finally painting the roof and fixing the floor pan rust and carpet, because I got my carpet yesterday! I took it to the carwash to wash off the crap and drove it for about 5 miles. The brakes are great. No more pumping, no more drastic pull to the left! Thanks for listening.