Jeff Seighman
aka jeffnmo
OH Hell yes, Awesome!
1966 Factory V8 Valiant Signet Restoration For My Other Daughter
- Thread starter Jim Kueneman
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@lemondana the belts are still backwards... 
B-i-n-g-o
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That's cool as all get out!
340sFastback
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That car will wow a lot of people at car shows that is for sure.
Beautiful car, Jim! Job well done! Now, when do you start on my Duster???
Alignment done and ride height factory... much better. AC started to charge and the pressures were perfect and it was cold but.. my dryer restoration has two problems... I overheated the seal on the sight glass... need to make a tool to remove it and hope it is just an o-ring and one of my welds has a pin hole leak at high pressure... a quick zap with the welder is required. The aftermarket vacuum advance has a nasty catch that makes the advance grab and snap... ordered a NOS. Fitted the windshield seal.. looks like a piece of cake... it is killing me there is no such thing as a rear '66 glass seal... I need to call Steel Rubber tomorrow....
Two strikeouts today. Stopped at a buddies and thought I had a factory vacuum advance. Nope must be for an electronic distributor or something. Ordered a NOS. The dryer has more pin holes after looking at it close. I saw some restored units from Classic Air and decided my welding is not that bad. Rewelded the end caps and will be proud of them. Got the sight glass out with a home made tool. Put an oring in charged it and it was cold! The oring is not going to hold plus the glass cracked taking it apart. It’s a weird thread so tomorrow I’ll just weld it shut. Don’t need it other and a curiosity piece. Interior is back together and the glass will go in.
Wrong year Vac advance. Also most mopars has a 7 digit number stamped on them. I have curved in ones if needed.
I need the straighter one. The aftermarket one has a sticking diaphragm. I have a NOS one coming.
Nice. Just check it with a mighty vac before it goes in NOS is still 50 Year old rubber. I have been burned on them.
Though show me Chinese rubber in a new part that will come close to 50 years!
mygasser
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it won't even be real rubber jim
They done last q5 years at all. I gave up on them and send them out to be rebuilt with neopream, not cheap but worth it to me.
I've been looking for this right side mirror for my 66, where did you get yours? And of course as mentioned by everyone else, your work on this car is stellar!
Classic Industries. They are OER reproductions but very nice and stay put
On our shake down drive last night it sounded like the torque converter was exploding. Turns out at higher speed the flex plate grabbed the tab in the cover and it bent and cracked it so it was grinding away. Lord these were clearly not designed for a V8. The 2” more width in ‘67 was required. Have to pull the Y pipe to work on anything. The pipe will have a header flange welded on so I can unbolt and separate the exhaust next time.
NOS distribution vacuum can solved the problem with it going crazy and backfiring with the ported vacuum connected.
Dug out the rat pee soaked belts I got from the donor car with AC. Talked to Bill Edwards on restoring them and using the 4 door belts as cores. I will eventually but for now I’m going to polish what I can and dye the light turquoise belts to black.
NOS distribution vacuum can solved the problem with it going crazy and backfiring with the ported vacuum connected.
Dug out the rat pee soaked belts I got from the donor car with AC. Talked to Bill Edwards on restoring them and using the 4 door belts as cores. I will eventually but for now I’m going to polish what I can and dye the light turquoise belts to black.
Just for the belt fairy.
Fought gas leak today. Used DMT seals which are factory original copies. Problem is the tank is not. There is a bubble in the steel where the oring sits so it rolls out. Had to go with the one that came with the sender…. Flat.
40 mile cruise with Kylie. Speedo is 20 mph off at 65. Have a gear located local.
Stopped at the local DG and started a car show…..
Last weather strips installed. 3M on each surface, dry for 10 minutes and they are stuck. Will leave the doors open overnight till it dries.
The light turquoise seat belts are awesome. Need to get some SEM fabric paint. The chrome polished out nice.
40 mile cruise with Kylie. Speedo is 20 mph off at 65. Have a gear located local.
Stopped at the local DG and started a car show…..
Last weather strips installed. 3M on each surface, dry for 10 minutes and they are stuck. Will leave the doors open overnight till it dries.
The light turquoise seat belts are awesome. Need to get some SEM fabric paint. The chrome polished out nice.
She is not quite done but a friend was having a show 2 miles from the house. First show for Kylie’s 1966 Valiant.
Installed a new front windshield and started to assemble the make your own rear glass gasket from @Rick@Laysons. Lots of practice of techniques of holding and cutting the stock weather strips for the back glass. Tomorrow is time to go for it. If we get $50k together Steel would talk about making a 66 Valiant rear seal…
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And we have a one piece 1966 Valiant rear seal. Needs 24 hours cure time before I can know if it’s a success. Had a conversation with Alan Shrock about if you build it on the car body or glass. The answer is glass! Cut one side to short so I had to make an “extension” patch. Trick is the find the center angle and cut the miters in place. The uppers are not 90 degree. Measure from the corner the same distance then connect those lines and draw a line from the corner to the center point then use that to cut the pieces in place.
Looking good.
Praying it fits and goes in cleanly
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