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66 Dart GT HT Whatsitgonnabe?
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Welding, no? Changing plugs with headers on hot engine?
Yup so you stop setting yourself on fire!
Those are great! Picked up a pair of gloves like that also Don't think I used my regular welding gloves since.
Those are great! Picked up a pair of gloves like that also Don't think I used my regular welding gloves since.
He he, I didn't connect them to the incident. Well played.Yup so you stop setting yourself on fire!
Hello. I'm back. Winter is slowly releasing its grip on Sweden. Before Christmas it was all wet, very windy and in all respects awful. The new year began in the same fashion but then it turned cold and in some parts extremely snowy. We here in the SW got periods of snow followed by cold and then thaw, resulting in lots of ice and frozen ground. Then March came and goes down in history as one of the coldest ever. It's been freezing temperatures right up to the end of last week.
It shifted this week-end, though, and I mounted the summer tires just yesterday and they've been busy sweeping up the grit from the streets all day. I bet the bikers are happy about that.
We started renovating the guest house on the coast a while back. What started as a quick wallpaper and ceiling paint job turned into a total nightmare - as old house projects do. We've pretty much finished tearing the place up and are ready to start putting new insulation and floor boards in.
I'm not sure if I mentioned that I bought an old Audi A4 Quattro from a colleague. I think I did. Anyway, swapping out the ABS module was a lot more difficult than I thought. Had I researched it, I would have found that the 4WD models have a different, much more difficult to find and therefore a LOT more expensive model. I actually tried to fix the broken one and failed miserably. I finally caved and bought a working unit for $300.
Anyway, I haven't touched the Dart all winter. I did, however, work on my air compressor and the drill press I bought. I've been doing it as a project with one of the kids I have at school. He's interested in these sorts of things and we've assembled the compressor block, shrink fitting on bearings and all and disassembled the drill press. It's very rewarding and I feel privileged to have this young man learning in my basement.
As an idiotic engineering project, I've designed an air cooler/dryer for the compressor. We've worked on this together, too, soldering copper tubing together to make a tube heat exchanger. A lot of fun and hopefully it'll work as intended and dry my air, too.
Here's the drill press spindle, all cleaned and bearings removed, new SKF ones on my desk, ready for re-assembly come Friday.
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It shifted this week-end, though, and I mounted the summer tires just yesterday and they've been busy sweeping up the grit from the streets all day. I bet the bikers are happy about that.
We started renovating the guest house on the coast a while back. What started as a quick wallpaper and ceiling paint job turned into a total nightmare - as old house projects do. We've pretty much finished tearing the place up and are ready to start putting new insulation and floor boards in.
I'm not sure if I mentioned that I bought an old Audi A4 Quattro from a colleague. I think I did. Anyway, swapping out the ABS module was a lot more difficult than I thought. Had I researched it, I would have found that the 4WD models have a different, much more difficult to find and therefore a LOT more expensive model. I actually tried to fix the broken one and failed miserably. I finally caved and bought a working unit for $300.
Anyway, I haven't touched the Dart all winter. I did, however, work on my air compressor and the drill press I bought. I've been doing it as a project with one of the kids I have at school. He's interested in these sorts of things and we've assembled the compressor block, shrink fitting on bearings and all and disassembled the drill press. It's very rewarding and I feel privileged to have this young man learning in my basement.
As an idiotic engineering project, I've designed an air cooler/dryer for the compressor. We've worked on this together, too, soldering copper tubing together to make a tube heat exchanger. A lot of fun and hopefully it'll work as intended and dry my air, too.
Here's the drill press spindle, all cleaned and bearings removed, new SKF ones on my desk, ready for re-assembly come Friday.
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When it comes to the Dart, I actually worked on it this weekend. I mounted the 67 and up-style hanging gas pedal and fabbed a bracket for the throttle and kick-down cables. It's not the prettiest, but the LD340 intake is very poorly equipped when it comes to mounting bosses for brackets and such.
It's not my finest work but it's pretty sturdy.
I'm a little confused by how the kick-down is supposed to work. I thought I had it figured out but now I think the cable pulls in the wrong direction if it's mounted the way I have it now. It's the one furthest to the right in the pic.
I want it to pull the lever on the trans toward the front of the car when I floor it, is that correct?
It's not my finest work but it's pretty sturdy.
I'm a little confused by how the kick-down is supposed to work. I thought I had it figured out but now I think the cable pulls in the wrong direction if it's mounted the way I have it now. It's the one furthest to the right in the pic.
I want it to pull the lever on the trans toward the front of the car when I floor it, is that correct?
Opposite.
Throttle movement off idle should start to move the 'kickdown' lever to increase the internal pressure with increasing throttle.
When the throttle is fully open - the lever on the transmission should be close to fully back. (While you're at it, malke sure thethrottle pedal actually causes the primary throttle to fully open.)
This pamphlet goes over the stock linkage adjustments in some detail.
Shift Quality & Linkage Adjustment (Session 279) from the Master Technician's Service Conference
and this one more generally may want to bookmark for ref.
Torqueflite Diagnosis (Session 284) from the Master Technician's Service Conference
BTW. Great photos.
Ok, great, thanks! Then my cable setup skould work. But only if the lever 'wants' to move on its own. I'll look at those pages. Thanks again.
Thank you.
I agree you should be able to make it work. I've seen cars with cable setups but don't remember the details. Only one I helped with the issue was it touched the headers and no longer worked smooth.
If the distance the cable moves with the throttle is different than the distance moved at the transmission, it shouldn't be too hard to increase or decrease the length of the lever.
If the distance the cable moves with the throttle is different than the distance moved at the transmission, it shouldn't be too hard to increase or decrease the length of the lever.
The shoe that connects to the lever is loose on the cable and is pulled by a stop on the end so there is hysteresis on there just like the stock fork except not in the carb end of the setup. I'm not sure if I need a return spring on the lever to pull it toward the rear, though.
I need fo figure out some sort of bracket under the car so I can start fiddling with it but since I can barely turn my head under there, working on it is a true PITA.
I will take a picture of my cable next time it is on the lift actually might have a extra trans bracket had to get another kit after I melted the cable on the header!
Well you're in good company! At Willow Springs, maybe 2 laps in before my buddy had to pull off the track. Couldn't salvage it after trying for much of the day. Needed a new cable.
Was cheaper to buy a new set up than a replacement cable. Then of course I found a company that sells all types of cable parts!
Now that you mention that, I recall my friend working at a bicycle shop telling me about new (15 years ago) brake and shifter cables with less resistance. I *think* the outside wires of the cable are all parallel to the housing.
Stay cool Anders!
Thanks, Ulf!
And I sure appreciate the input, fellas.
Didn't get anything done today. Long day at work.
And I sure appreciate the input, fellas.
Didn't get anything done today. Long day at work.
Has it been almost a month already? Wow. Well, I've been kinda busy. Spring is upon us - finally - and we've been working on the guest house on the coast. Spent a couple of weekends up there and managed to get the insulation in and all but the last floor boards down.
I finally tracked down a door handle for the old Audi A4 I've been working on all winter. It hasn't arrived yet, but that should get the driver's side door lock fixed and we can make the final decision whether to keep or sell it. Right now, we're leaning towards keeping it since the truly beat-up A6 we have is doomed. I won't be fixing it up any more and it's due for inspection May 30 at which time I'll drive it to the scrapper.
In other news, one of the rear doors on the 2010 A4 won't open from the outside. Apparently a common error so a little YouTube:ing and presto! the door lock excavated and identified. New one on order. Well, used, but new and hopefully functioning.
So, nothing on the car? No, unfortunately. BUT! I've finally assembled both compressor blocks. One had a broken reed valve so I bought some hardened stainless shim stock and made four new ones. The other got a good cleaning and new gaskets.
Next up is assembly. The cooler is now finalized and I've decided to run the blocks in parallell to get the most out of the cooler.
Oh! And I got my very own washing machine! For free! For those greasy work clothes. And look! Some extra horizontal space to fill up!
I finally tracked down a door handle for the old Audi A4 I've been working on all winter. It hasn't arrived yet, but that should get the driver's side door lock fixed and we can make the final decision whether to keep or sell it. Right now, we're leaning towards keeping it since the truly beat-up A6 we have is doomed. I won't be fixing it up any more and it's due for inspection May 30 at which time I'll drive it to the scrapper.
In other news, one of the rear doors on the 2010 A4 won't open from the outside. Apparently a common error so a little YouTube:ing and presto! the door lock excavated and identified. New one on order. Well, used, but new and hopefully functioning.
So, nothing on the car? No, unfortunately. BUT! I've finally assembled both compressor blocks. One had a broken reed valve so I bought some hardened stainless shim stock and made four new ones. The other got a good cleaning and new gaskets.
Next up is assembly. The cooler is now finalized and I've decided to run the blocks in parallell to get the most out of the cooler.
Oh! And I got my very own washing machine! For free! For those greasy work clothes. And look! Some extra horizontal space to fill up!
In a few weeks, 65Dartman is coming to visit! That'll be great! I hope I'll be able to make his visit pleasant.
Thanks! We are currently in Paris and will be off to Ireland, Morocco, Amsterdam, And Gibraltar before heading to Gothenburg and arriving May 23rd to visit with Anders. After visiting with Anders, we head to Zurich and visit with a Swiss member. Looking forward to meeting these great members!
moparmat2000
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Glad to see you back on here. Pretty neat to see the throttle stud off the chrysler fifth ave i sent you going to good use.
Wow! That's quite a trip! I hope you're not exhausted by the time you get here.
Yeah, thanks, buddy! Every time I look at it I think of the $30 or so I saved getting it from you in stead of buying one over here.
Wow! That's quite a trip! I hope you're not exhausted by the time you get here.
Right now we are just killing time at Charles de Gaulle. Air France and SNCF and RER train operators on random strike as is Air France. I am trying to take it easy as I did some serious muscle/cartilage damage behind my left knee the morning on the day we were leaving. Couldn’t even walk with a cane but can get around (slowly) with a walker my wife found. I said as long as I can get around, we’re going and here we are in Paris. See you either the 23rd after we get checked into the hotel or on the 24th. Really looking forward to finally meeting you!
Ouch! That doesn't sound good at all! I hope it doesn't slow you down too bad. Be careful not to make it worse!
And likewise, looking forward to meeting you both!
And likewise, looking forward to meeting you both!
You are not going to believe what happened today.
You've got to cut my son some slack for the camera work. And did you notice the grin on my face?
Afterwards, I found a loose spark plug wire on #5. So maybe the idle is a little less ... interesting once I get that sorted. It was a little too hot to jam my fingers in between the manifold and the head.
Anyway, I think I will be happy with the amount of power in the car. I doubt I went over 3500 rpm and I was mor than excited. My first time ever driving a muscle car!
Afterwards, I found a loose spark plug wire on #5. So maybe the idle is a little less ... interesting once I get that sorted. It was a little too hot to jam my fingers in between the manifold and the head.
Anyway, I think I will be happy with the amount of power in the car. I doubt I went over 3500 rpm and I was mor than excited. My first time ever driving a muscle car!
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