Matt , I run my gen every couple weeks all winter long to make sure it works for hurricane season. Then around August it just wants to mess with me and not start. Have to clean the carb almost every damn time I may need it ! just sayin !
67/68/69 cuda dilemma
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moparmat2000
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Hi Al,
I am thinking ahead. Mine is dual fuel gasoline or propane. I dont run liquid gasoline thru it. Being propane is dry and not liquid the carburetor never gets fouled. Look into the Champion brand dual fuel 110V 3800 watt like I have. It ran me $400 out the door at Sam's club. Run it exclusively on propane, and you will never have a problem.
I am thinking ahead. Mine is dual fuel gasoline or propane. I dont run liquid gasoline thru it. Being propane is dry and not liquid the carburetor never gets fouled. Look into the Champion brand dual fuel 110V 3800 watt like I have. It ran me $400 out the door at Sam's club. Run it exclusively on propane, and you will never have a problem.
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I may just check it out.
JDMopar
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Al, you may have to do it like I had to do my riding mower. I put a fuel shutoff valve between the tank and carb. Every time I get done mowing, I shut the valve off with the mower running, and let it run itself out of gas. The crap gas we have now sits in the carb and gums it up.....and I even buy non ethanol premium gas for all the small engine stuff! 
Cutting the gas off and letting it run out helped my mower run better though.
Cutting the gas off and letting it run out helped my mower run better though.
I do that now Jackie. Seems to work fine all winter,then when I need it,it doesn't want to run !
I run premium AND Stabil(marine stuff) in all my small engine stuff.
JDMopar
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If you already do that, you probably use Stabil in the gas too. Wish I could be more help....but that's all I got! 
moparmat2000
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Finally got some time to do a bit more today. After I get the last roof support section welded in on the passenger side tomorrow, the unfucking of this ex drag car will be complete. The rest of the metal work will be typical 50+ year old car metal repair. It still blows my mind that they butchered all of the support structure out and stuffed in aluminum mini tubs.
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moparmat2000
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Heres what I had to put back in on both sides.
Let no stone be unturned, nor jackfukkery not reversed!
Matt you better pick up the pace ! Your sons gonna be wanting to take it out and blow the wheels off this thing soon !
Racer mindset!?
moparmat2000
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Yessir it was definitely really Fugly back there. Its slowly getting much better. Heres what it was like in the trunk when I brought it home. I replaced everything back there except the framerails which I removed the relocating boxes and repaired, and the crossmembers. I still shake my head at how bad this thing was, and how far its come, and how far it will still need to go.Racer mindset!?
My life is on slow motion these days. Keep me in your prayers y'all. I really need it. We all have crosses to bear in life, this is mine. On weekends when I am home, and my wife is at work, I have to play referee to 3 kids. One of which 16 and has pretty bad mental health issues. She acts very venomous to everyone including the pets, and lashes out terribly at her younger sister and autistic younger brother. All my wife and i can do at this point is to referee all this B.S. until shes grown. At that point she can be somebody else's problem to deal with, because she wont be my problem to deal with anymore. She doesnt want help, she refuses to take her medications. So we keep trying with therapy and meds until shes 18. I hate to say it, but after she hits 18 when she gets crappy, she will be leaving. Wife is very tired of her B.S. as well. Kid holds this whole house hostage. When shes 18 we will have had 10 years of this bullshit.
Now back to the scheduled programming.
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^^^Looking good thats a lot of work!!!!
moparmat2000
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Ya for a $300 car lol.
mygasser
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not any more, lol.
moparmat2000
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Although great to have compared to nothing, these AMD outer wheel houses bothered me because they were stamped too long in the back, and not enough overlap in the front. I fixed the front before I installed them, and I finally figured out how I was going to correct this issue at the rear. I plan on temp hanging the quarter skin with cleco pins to figure out the height of the trunk drop flange to the outer wheel house before i do a final cut to fit. What's also different is there's extra bracing for the trunk drops at the back attached to the rear cross tie bar that the 69 doesn't have, and didn't have when I took it apart. The 69 donor back half did not have these pieces either. The RH side fits even worse from the trunk drop to the wheelhouse.
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moparmat2000
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Goodmark skins are cheap, but a bit rough to install. I am pretty pleased with how I got this one to fit. Dont get me wrong, theres still a ton of stuff to do to make it fit well, but for $137 a side at www.getallparts.com plus truck freight for a total of $300 to my doorstep, I am not complaining. My plan is to work this panel, and the outer wheel house to play nice together, then store the quarter skin so I can finish sandblast work in the quarter window area, and cut & install the dynamic renovation door jamb latch reinforcing plates. The new quarter skin is fitted into stepped flanges I made with a pneumatic panel flanger everywhere the cleco pins are located. Both pieces fit nice and flush. Its nice to be working with clean metal and not rusty **** finally. You know you finally hit the turning point when more metal is going back on than coming off and being piled in the scrap trailer lol.
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GO, GO, GO Matt !!!!
Beautiful job Matt. Any pics from the inside ?
moparmat2000
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I can get some tomorrow
Super-Cuda
MOPAR .. Move Over, Plymouth Approaching Rapidly!
Hey Matt,
Great job! Car is coming along fantastic!
I just wanted to share something with you that I ran into when restoring my car. Getting the trunk cover to line up is a *****. The one thing I should have done when setting up the gaps was to install the mouldings on the trunk cover, install the taillights and temporarily tape the trunk rubber in place to set up the proper alignment between the panels , the trunk cover and the taillights.. This is such a pain to do after the car is painted!
Cheers!!
Matt, what are the vise-grips called that make the offset flange for over laying another piece of sheet metal on it for the joint ?
And where to get them !
And where to get them !
moparmat2000
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Hi Al, it's not vise grips, it's a pneumatic panel flanger. You hook it up to shop air for it to squeeze. I got mine at harbor freight years ago. Knew I was going to need it for a project some day so I bought it when it was on sale. One side of the jaws flanges, the other side punches holes. It got low on fluid and wouldent squeeze well. Theres a fill port in the side. I added some brake fluid and it works just fine again. Price is still pretty cheap for what it does.
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