mopowers
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Got the brake lines finished up on my 66. More importantly, there's still plenty of room left for exhaust.
Living the dream!I ran got groceries with it. Then home to mow grass, now going to take it to a cookout...70 and partly sunny...
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Congrats and welcome to the greatest profession around. I have been at it for 33 years and still love it.Drove it to my graduation, parked right in front of the stadium and had the most amazing date and drive home as an official Dr (Dentist)
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Wait. I thought something else was the best profession? Oh that's oldest profession in the book. Never mind.
You were busy - that's a LOT of work in a day!!Day 3 on the 64 Barracuda front end (Day 1 is post #7955 and Day 2 is post #7958). Got the Mancini Torsion bar removal tool in the mail yesterday so today I resumed working on the passenger side again. Tore everything apart again (getting good at this and it comes apart easy now), attached the Mancini tool to the torsion bar and started pounding on it and nothing moved. Got a bigger hammer, then the Mancini tool started sliding on the bar. Tightened up the bolts some more and of course one snaps. after a quick break I go at it again and still nothing moves. Time for the 20 lb sledge (I used to drive spikes on the RR), after about an hour of hitting this tool, the torsion bar finally starts to move but it did fight the whole way out. Put on the new strut rod bushing, lower control arm (with new bushing) and put everything back together. Car drives really nice now with all new bushings on the front end. Front end alignment is Monday then next job is new rear springs (I'll post about that when I tackle that job).
VERY nice. Well done sir!!Got a lot done these past few weeks, after i did the 11.75 brake upgrade my milodon high flow water pump that was only 2 years old started leaking barely out of the weep hole only when it was sitting. Bit the bullet and ordered a flow kooler and got it installed. All new coolant. Was going to replace the t-stat with a robert shaw but it came damaged from summit so i sent it back and just kept the milodon high flow t-stat in it. Replaced all the cooling system hoses and routed the heater hoses a little better around the fuel line. Swapped all of the stainless hose clamps out for black stainless hose clamps to clean up the look a little bit. Replaced all the fuel hoses and Installed a earls performance aluminum 100 micron stainless mesh serviceable fuel filter in place of the standard metal fuel filter before the pump and finally got rid of the plastic fuel filter before the carb and replaced it with a edelbrock aluminum 40 micron stainless mesh screen serviceable filter. Also installed a edelbrock fuel line from the filter to the carb to replace the rubber hose and clean up the look. The pass front was looking bare in the engine bay so i Installed a chase bays black anodized coolant overflow tank. Got another billet specialties cap to match my other billet specialties caps. Got the engine bay detailed now i just have to wax the body before the car show this weekend.
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The black hose clamps are a nice touch.I sure have and thank you, it all started with upgrading to 11.75” brakes lmao. That turned into new rotors, calipers, caliper brackets, stainless hoses, new aluminum master cylinder, rear wheel cylinders, rear drums and shoes. Got all that done and then the water pump started to leak lol i was like come on man. Glad it all worked out, im also glad flowkooler has a 2 year warranty.
The black hose clamps are a nice touch.