What Are You Doing To/With Your Car Today?

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Mine is a 67 as well, if you can, get the 68/69 glass trim for it. That will make the car:)
Yep, I already did that and it's getting installed in about a week or so! I may still be missing some windshield pieces, time to dig them all out and start polishing.
 
I got an air polisher at my paint supply vendor and it made it easy to polish all the bright work on my car with a little compound and water.
Well worth the money! I'm looking forward to seeing your finished car:)
 
If I can get myself motivated, I'll drain the coolant out of the bronco and pull the Water neck back of so I can reseal it tomorrow...the silly thing is leaking
 
What I was going to do did not happen. Bought a reman Kelsey Hayes caliper from Rock Auto for the left side...Ordered the right P/N according to them but got passenger side. Not sure if they list the part with wrong description or just the wrong part in the box. Hoping after they send the replacement I don't get another wrong part. Crappy day out too...Would've been nice to get the car back on the ground.
 
took out the 7.25, replaced it with a 8.75 and installed new leaf springs and rear shocks
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One fitting away from the race track! You'll notice an absent fuel pressure regulator!

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rainy day in nw suburban chicago. since i upgraded the rear shocks yesterday. i upgraded the front shocks today. kyb out bilsteins in .

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Just finished up gap filing the rings on my /6 and getting ready to do the piston install and setting up the timing chain.
 
Made my own gaskets for the China walls, changed the steel braid to black braided fuel line on the intake, mounted my oil filter relocation.

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Im going to one man bleed my brakes tomorrow. I can pump them up but half the fluid leaves the reservoir then it slowly refills when I let them off....? They are on my Mazda truck.
 
Small amount of progress on mine today. I cut the Lower radiator mount down form the donor Charger and tacked it in place to hold the radiator. It fits like it belongs. Eventually I will find some time to fab up a couple upper mounts for it. Little steps.
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Got the 360 off the hoist and onto the stand. Removed the beat up dizzy (which I am probably going to throw in the trash) and the heavy cast iron ***** of a 2bbl throttle body intake and threw it in the trash.

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Mmmmm yeah... Lookit this awesome goodness.
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Left side head
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Right side head.
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Yep, 308s. I'll be able to check for cracks when I can get them cleaned up.
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More awesome goodness.
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Right side awesomeness. The scratches on the top of the #4 piston were me trying to see how nasty it is.
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Cleaning up at the end of the day.
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Putting crap on the shelf in a semi-orderly way so I remember where it came from.
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Gonna be replacing the head bolts, already have them on the shelf ready to go.
I didn't get any pictures of the pushrods, they are ball-ball, with a hole through the middle.
I got the pan off, haven't removed the oil pump, will be replacing it, as well as the pickup. The pan was a truck pan.
I won't be able to work on it until the first weekend of june. Once I get into the bottom end, I'll see if anything needs to be replaced there.
I may be able to go over the heads before then though. I have a set of 1.5:1 Hughes ductile iron rocker arms, so if I decide to go with them instead of just throwing the old ones back in, I'll be learning how to measure for new pushrods.

The raised area around the edges of the pistons are 0.070" down in the hole. There was hardly any cross hatching in the cylinder bores. I expect that the _least_ I will be doing is honing the bores, and grabbing a set of the KB107 pistons and some new rings. I want to do as much as I can to learn for my big block project. More than likely, I will be having a machine shop clean the block, put in new plugs and bearings.
 
Got a windshield installed! Just have to double check the wiring, got the fuses that were missing, and an extra piece of windshield trim that isn't bent.

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Well didn't work on my car but helped on a 68 impala, had a wiring charging issue. But I get get another tool box to mount my new vise onto it. Had to rearrange the garage a bit. New box is the black one on the left.

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Went to a local show and got rewarded with a bunch of some other brand reject parts. Good deal when you drive a Mopar.

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Drove it to a car show about 30 Miles away. Met up with Craig Fox, a fellow FABO guy from Topeka. Got to see his beautiful 68 Barracuda 383 4 speed Formula S convertible. Car drove flawlessly and AC blew ice cold. Great day.
 
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