Halloween Pumpkin

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I did pick up a 73 400 that may make its way under the hood one day, for now I just stuck it in my outbuilding.
I did buy clutch petals, linkage and a 4-speed, but this may happen another time, but the 6 cyl at the moment runs so good, it would be a shame to take it out, plus I have two other cars that are not running at the moment, a 70 Challenger and a 70 Cuda, so they will be done before I do any major modifications to the red Duster.

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So I took the red Duster for a drive Saturday morning up in the mountains, and it started running like crap, just bogging like it was running out of fuel.
When I made it to the next town, stopped at a NAPA and bought a fuel filter.
It would idle fine, but anything over 1/4 throttle it just wanted to bog down, one steep hill on the way home, I topped the hill at under 20 mph, I swear an old lady on a bicycle could have passed me.

Anyways got home, removed the filter, first from the output side, fuel was complety clean, good sign.
On the inlet side, completly different story, it was full of rust.
Ordered a new tank, and sending unit.

I never once thought this car would have a rusty tank, but as I always told my-self, expect the worse, hope for the best when it comes to old cars.

The soup can in the picture was cleaned out with laquer thinner, and that was a clean paper towel in the bottom of the can.

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My brother resurrected a dormant Road Runner years ago. We had to pull the tank & empty it of its contents. We found a mound of what looked like amber. A chain, some clean gas, and lots of shaking broke the worst of it loose. It ran beautifully afterwards.
 
mpgmike said:
My brother resurrected a dormant Road Runner years ago. We had to pull the tank & empty it of its contents. We found a mound of what looked like amber. A chain, some clean gas, and lots of shaking broke the worst of it loose. It ran beautifully afterwards.
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I already played that game once with a 69 F-100 I had years ago, removed the tank, and cleaned it as good as I could.
It would still plug a fuel filter up every couple days. I would keep a couple extra filters on the dash.
A new tank is cheap now, but with this virus crap, it will not be here for about a month.
 
I did dig a set of scoops out of my building, they had been collecting dust for years.
They are original set of mopar scoops, part numbers said they are off a 69 Super Bee.
I sanded, primed them and shot them with some base-coat, no clear.
They cleaned up good.

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Weather finally broke yesterday and got the scoops put on the car.
I know they are not correct for a 76, but I already had them, so might as well use them.
I think it looks ok for what the old red Duster is.
The only disadvantage is now I cannot see the old-man fender turn signal blinker on the passenger side.

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As a bonus the gas tank came in a week early, but was kinda scuffed up from rubbing on the cardboard box, so I sanded it down.

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I put two coats of primer on it this morning, and will sand it down in the morning. No picture of the primer.
Going to paint it silver BC/CC with a little added metal flake, just because.....

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sireland67 said:
Weather finally broke yesterday and got the scoops put on the car.
I know they are not correct for a 76, but I already had them, so might as well use them.
I think it looks ok for what the old red Duster is.
The only disadvantage is now I cannot see the old-man fender turn signal blinker on the passenger side.

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Sit on one of the throw pillows from your couch then you can see the signal blinker.
 
Jadaharabi said:
Sit on one of the throw pillows from your couch then you can see the signal blinker.
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Lol, or I could remove the stack of shims the previous owner put under the front seat tracks that tilts the seat rearward.
The seat is pretty comphy as is, so it no big deal.
Plus the indicators still work on the instrument cluster.
 
Bought a new paint gun, have not had a good one for over 20 years.
It is a AWEST IWATA LPH-400 it lays paint sweet, I should have bought a good gun years ago.

I painted the tank, the top side I just shot some silver with one coat of clear.
The bottom side I painted and added some metal flake to the first coat of clear, then buried the flake in clear.

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I painted an original gas cap for my Orange duster.
For this job I used the purple Harbor Freight $10 gun, it sprays ok for smaller jobs, but does not atomize the paint very good for large areas.

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I always wanted an old truck with headlights on the fenders, found a 1946 Dodge that was 5 miles from my family farm, and it was reasonable, with a clear title.
The guy was nice enough to haul it on his trailer to my place free.
The sheet metal is really nice for the year, all the glass is good, and the engine turns over 218 flat 6.
Like I need another project, but it was too cheap to pass up.

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Not much updates on the orange duster, have not done much with it, it has been sitting in storage.
I did suck the old gas out a week or so ago, and put fresh gas in it, but did not try to start it.
Driving it this year is on the to-do list.

I did have a guy come down to buy floor shift A body column off me, he ended up buying the column and my red duster off me. So I am without a extra mopar, but it went to a good home.

I did buy a new set of wheels and tires for my old truck, because the tires that were on the old truck were the same size as my daughters jeep, and she needed new tires.
So she gets a free set of tires, and I shelled out cash for a set for the old truck.
One thing about kids is, they will always cost you money, regardless on how old they are.

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sireland67 said:
This is kinda going to be a backwards thread, I am going to start on how the car looks now, and work my way backwards thru photos.
A little history, I bought this car about a week before Halloween in 2010.
I had drove by it for several months, one day my kid was with me and said "look Dad an old mopar, lets look at it"
Ended up buying it, I should have just left it to die where it was.

It was a plain jane, poop brown 73 Duster, that started.
Typical flat black hide all paint job, with a 318, duel exhaust auto, 7.25 rear.
Nothing fancy but did have a aluminum intake and a 625 carder carb, with really custom speaker wires running to the amp gauge.

Like I said should have left it there.
8 years later its a 340 4-speed 8.75 toy.
Its not done yet, but getting close, still needs a black top installed. But this is how it sit now.

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I gave it to my now 18 year old kid, because I promised him when he was 10 he could have the car. He helped out alot along the way with it.
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I for one am glad you didn’t leave that Duster to die. It looks great, and your son is lucky to be getting it!
 
Topless69 said:
I for one am glad you didn’t leave that Duster to die. It looks great, and your son is lucky to be getting it!
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Its a pretty nice car now, but I really need to finish it, and quit getting distracted with other projects.
 
I bought a 93 Dakota Dakota 5.2 auto, extended cab, short box for a frame swap for the 46.
This was my buddys old truck (rip) daily driver, but it had sat a while, no brakes $200 clear title.

I did not own that truck long, my Nephew claimed it, he just turned 16 so I let him have it.
The kid has true motivation, cleaned the truck all up, even took the seats out and steam cleaned them, did a great job.
The best thing is, stuck a battery and dumped some gas in it, the old truck fired right up and idled.

When he cleaned the bed out, it was full of crap, including two converters off the truck.
Today he helped me clean a bunch of old doors, fenders etc up to take to the scrapyard.
We threw the converters in my dump trailer, with the scrap and scored today, got $200 out of the converters alone.
So the scrap yard run gives him some money to fix the brakes on the truck.
 
DusterDaddy said:
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They must have got the brakes working on the Dakota, because my cousin sent me a video of them burning the back tires off that old truck.
My cousin is the one that your son got that 318 off of, its his boy that talked me out of the Dakota.
 
I love the dodge truck! Im gonna have to check into that paint gun that thing sprays nice! Best looking gas tank iv ever seen.
 
sireland67 said:
I bought a 93 Dakota Dakota 5.2 auto, extended cab, short box for a frame swap for the 46.
This was my buddys old truck (rip) daily driver, but it had sat a while, no brakes $200 clear title.

I did not own that truck long, my Nephew claimed it, he just turned 16 so I let him have it.
The kid has true motivation, cleaned the truck all up, even took the seats out and steam cleaned them, did a great job.
The best thing is, stuck a battery and dumped some gas in it, the old truck fired right up and idled.

When he cleaned the bed out, it was full of crap, including two converters off the truck.
Today he helped me clean a bunch of old doors, fenders etc up to take to the scrapyard.
We threw the converters in my dump trailer, with the scrap and scored today, got $200 out of the converters alone.
So the scrap yard run gives him some money to fix the brakes on the truck.
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How did you get $200 for those two converters?
 
Stock catalytic converters bring good money. Aftermarket ones, not so much. (Oh, did you think he meant torque converters??)
 
mpgmike said:
Stock catalytic converters bring good money. Aftermarket ones, not so much. (Oh, did you think he meant torque converters??)
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I was thinking torque converters. Most of my vehicle's don't even have catalytic converters. LOL thanks for the clarification
 
Yes they were cats, paid for the truck.
 
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