Getting started !!

Today I picked up a carb rebuild kit.
And my son and I started in on it .
Dipped all the major parts in some carb cleaner stuff
Cleaned up all the small parts
Tomorrow we'll put her back together.
We also pulled the plugs and cleaned and regaped them
Points and cond and cap are new from previous owner
Just have to set dwell time and see where we are at !!!

 

great to hear its going well !!

 

Dvd

Ok
I got my DVD I'm the mail today
Sat down and watched it..
Only dozed off twice !!!!!
But it is very clear and makes it look easy !!
I'm pumped to tear into it !!!
And on another note: my son has been calling the wagon. " the Swager Wagon "
So it kind of stuck ,,, and now it's officially called. SWGRWGN !!!!

 

I went digging for some info on Ford's T5 5-speed tranny and landed on a YouTube flick, made by the guys at Auto RestoMod. Then I clicked on the YouTube Subscribe button! Wow!

http://www.youtube.com/user/AutoRestoMod?feature=watch

Then I went to their site! More Wow!

http://www.autorestomod.com/

I guess their show is on US TV or some cable package.

Well, if its classic Fords, they cover it. From Headliners to headlights.

I downloaded and converted the tranny flicks from MP4 to Windows Media, using this freebie tool. You just right click on the flick, copy the shortcut and paste it into the program's commanline bar. It shows you a list of file formats you can choose to download from, and you decide what file format setting you want to save/convert it to:

http://atube-catcher.dsnetwb.com/video/content/banco-datos-Download-latest-update.html

Slick, Simple and FREE!!!

I usually let it download in the highlighted format. One of their MP4 videos is about 20 minutes, give or take, and about 260 MB. Converted into a Windows Media file (WMV) it grows to 800 MB. Takes about an hour to download and convert/encode.

I just get one started, let her rip, and do something else in my renos.

 

Tonite we drained the tranny pan,pulled the driveshaft
Cooler lines and linkage.
Getting ready to pull the tranny ,,
Sunday we pressure washed the crap out the under side
Tranny and engine.

 

Today we started to reassemble the tranny.
I need to pick up a new one way bearing Monday and
Another friction and steel to complete the rebuild.
I have a complete dual exhaust system header back dual
From my Camaro I'm going to use to build a dual
System for the wagon.then we'll see where she takes us ?

 

Here's another picture

 

Just caught up on this thread - good work! Making great progress. That will be a cool RC airplane hauler - imagine the looks you'll get when you pull up to the RC airfield with that bad boy! Give the plane and car a matching paint scheme - oh baby!

 

Yea ,, then it would look like DEWEY,s
Lime green !!!!

 

Ain't nothin' wrong with that! Plus it's Porsche Green if we wanna get all technical...

 

BOY!!! That must be a huge magnetic table you've got there to be able to hold all those parts sideways like that.:2_thumbs_up_-_anima

 

We had a green porch when we first bought a house in Illinois.

 

No no i didn't mean nothing negative
I like the color , and I don't want to compete with you !!!

 

No worries brother, no compitition here I'd say we're all here to have fun and cheer eachother on! I like the color too and pics don't do it justice it has a nice silver pearl in the clearcoat.

 

Dewey, I had a Baja VW bug I painted in the same colour.....it was friken cool, all that was missing was the letter 'm' on the door.......



Porsche smorsh green.... it's M n' M's green, your wagon...... and I like it!