65 Barracuda daily driver
Finally decided to tackle the leak at the oil filter adapter. Took out the torsion bar and then the passenger side downpipe. Damn, that thing did not want to come out. Eventually it did. Not a lot of oil came out when I took the adapter off. I left the filter on, cleaned everything up and torqued it 40 ft lbs.
No problem getting the torque wrench in there on jack stands. It sure helps having the torsion bar and exhaust out.
Put the exhaust back in, but the new bolt didn't clear. So I took it out again (came out a bit easier this time, but still a pain in the butt). I ended up hammering the exhaust pipe a bit and it cleared nicely (I have no photo of that). Then put the rest back together. That took pretty much all day, but it's done and I'm pretty exhausted (pun intended).
It was too late to test drive and I needed to take a shower. By the way, my gas mileage was pretty bad lately (around 9 mpg) so I ended up putting the stock rods back in the carburetor. It maybe had a little bit more pep, but I've gotten up to 15 mpg before and that's more important to me since I drive the car pretty much every day. It probably helps that the transmission is shifting through all the gears again.
Excited to drive the car tomorrow!
Finally decided to tackle the leak at the oil filter adapter. Took out the torsion bar and then the passenger side downpipe. Damn, that thing did not want to come out. Eventually it did. Not a lot of oil came out when I took the adapter off. I left the filter on, cleaned everything up and torqued it 40 ft lbs.
No problem getting the torque wrench in there on jack stands. It sure helps having the torsion bar and exhaust out.
Put the exhaust back in, but the new bolt didn't clear. So I took it out again (came out a bit easier this time, but still a pain in the butt). I ended up hammering the exhaust pipe a bit and it cleared nicely (I have no photo of that). Then put the rest back together. That took pretty much all day, but it's done and I'm pretty exhausted (pun intended).
It was too late to test drive and I needed to take a shower. By the way, my gas mileage was pretty bad lately (around 9 mpg) so I ended up putting the stock rods back in the carburetor. It maybe had a little bit more pep, but I've gotten up to 15 mpg before and that's more important to me since I drive the car pretty much every day. It probably helps that the transmission is shifting through all the gears again.
Excited to drive the car tomorrow!