67 GTS 4-Speed: Daily Summer Driver

So last month I did make it back to the parents place to get some work done, but most the time was spent doing a tune up on the polara, and I got the speakers and radio in the charger. Just need to hook it up!

This past weekend I went home to get some parts for the dart convertible. The location was about an hour away so I figured I take the charger to give it a run in. Well that wasnt the best idea... turns out at moderate throttle anywhere between 25-70 causes the car to ping... So I had to much advance. But I back the initial back and now it doesnt ping at speed, but idles like crap. In order to get it to idle I have to crank the idle screw all the way in on the carb. So it looks like I need to find time to recurve the distributor, and install a clutch fan because it likes to run hot. Too Hot...

BUT! I got some work done on the GTS. I went to install the clutch fork and noticed I needed to unbolt the header to get it in... So I had to raise the engine again, loosen the header just to get this damn clutch fork in... Which was fine because I needed to change out the header gasket, which I did. I saw that the header did not have enough clearance, so I went about and made a couple spacers to get the header away from the steering box. I then moved to getting the rest of the exhaust lined up... that was a pain. Had to cut a couple pipes to get it all to fit, which is fine. So everything in the exhaust is loosely assembled!!

I only now decided to connect the starter wiring... that was a pain!!! holy cow... should of done that before I installed it. Oh well, its on there now. With the little time I had left I installed the Z bar mount on the bell housing.

So now all that needs done is to assemble the Z bar, install that. Figure out what is going on with the column and why the steering shaft isnt long enough, get remflex gaskets for the collectors, get a tube bender and bender the dip stick tube and I should be good to put fire to it again!! then just Need to get the rear end rebuilt with new gears and bearings, rear brakes, master cylinder, get the remaining parts for the console, chroming the bumpers, seat foam, tires and head liner. Then should be done! list is getting smaller.