Monthly Archives: April 2013
Project 63 – 4/28 Progress
I made a good amount of progress on project 63 this weekend. After weeks of tear down and cleaning finally I am to the point of re-assembly 🙂
The engine bay paint and engine paint is complete, finally got the repainted valve covers back on with new decals. I re-installed the batter mount and I started putting the wiring back in place. I also had to paint the new A/C compressor and Alt brackets so they will been to dry overnight.
I ran into a small issue when installing the lower pulley I found out one of the 3 holes in the harmonic balancer was stripped. Fortunately I had an extra balancer so all is good now.
I re-installed the freshly repainted exhaust manifolds and I installed a new fuel pump, water pump and repainted thermostat housing.
I completed installing new brake shoes, wheel cylinders and rubber brake lines all the way around. Now I am just waiting on the master cylinder to come back form being re-sleeved.
Lastly I started final shaping of the fiberglass tunnel replacement. I just have a little more glass work then I can start installing the heat treatment for the floor.
Project 63 Engine Bay Refresh
I am making progress on the engine bay refresh. It is getting close to the point I can start putting things back together 🙂 Don’t mind the modern 350 valve covers, those are temporary to keep the dirt out while I refinish the originals.
Before!
And Now!
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Project 63 – 4/21 Progress
We made some progress this week on Project 63. I was able to get the new rear pinion seal installed along with a new front diff mount, new U-Joints, rear transmission seal and a freshly painted drive shaft.
Once I got all of that installed I was able to graft in the new floor section and reconstruct some of the missing tunnel section. I still need to do some sanding, shaping and finishing to that repair.
I also scraped 35 years of grease from much of the suspension and I treated it with POR 15 and will top coat that with a semi flat back.
I removed the brake master to paint the firewall so I decided to do a rebuild on the master just to find it had bad scoring so I sent the master off to be re-sleeved. I also have a new power brake booster to install.
I remove the steering column to do the firewall repaint and to replace the shaft bearings to find the bearings were so far gone the shaft was grooved, now a new shaft is on order but the column and attachments have been blasted and repainted.
I also decided to replace the exhaust so I cut out the old system which made room for me to scrape and paint much of the underside.
Lots of new parts arrive this week including the new A/C so now I have to finish repainting the engine and engine bay so I can get started on the putting stuff back together part of the plan 🙂
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Project 63 Vintage Air Arrived Today
The UPS guy just dropped off some gifts, the Vintage Air Arrived for Project 63.
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Project 63 week 3 – Tunnel Repair
Well I am now in week 3 of Project 63 and there has been a lot going on. I started prepping for the Vintage Air install and while removing the old heater system I started to pull back the carpet to find it was pretty well dry rotted so I removed the old carpet. Once I removed the carpet I uncovered a very poor tunnel and rear diff fiberglass repair. I cut out the old areas and I ordered a replacement section and tonight I was able to get the first layer of new glass grafted into the new area .
While I had the top side of the tunnel apart I went ahead and changed out the rear pinion and transmission pinion seals and installed new U-Joints. I also de-greased and painted as much of the chassis that I could see from the top side and I installed a new front diff rubber mount.
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