Anyone working on their wagons?

Less full bodied? Like a 28 A-cup!

They look great Barry.

Didn't the old Caddies have black rubber cones?

 

I finally had the perfect day to dismantle my Fox V8/I4 cross-member, ready for sandblasting and powdercoating. Andy came by, and helped me reef those big lower A-frame bolts off. He'd just finished doing his own. How's that for great minds thinking alike?

Now I'll install my Mustang Split rear folddown hatchback seats. Already got mine out. Today's the day! It's part of the renos, honest. I have no room to store them, so I might as well get them on. That's what I told the wife anyway.

 

Well I gues I'll be working on the Crewzer soon, I thought I'd warm it up and put her in front for a few days drive to work because I hav'nt used it since we got the BuickBarge....I open the tail gate glass no problem then when I close it the frigen hinge snaps in half. I can't believe I did'nt break the glass, I swore it twisted. I got it closed but the next time I open it I have to replace it. I know of one wreaker up island that has the hinge ( I hope the car is still there), I'll call tommorow but I won't be able to do the drive for some time, like a few weeks. George Carlins 7 words come to mind rite now!

 

i myself have pulled mine out of hibernation and cleaned the mold and mildew that grew over our winter and washed the leaf stains off my paint. Now if only i could find the time to tackle the mouse problem, the no brake lights/turn signals/ flashers problem and the obsesive leaking through the windows when it rains, life would be wonderful!

 

Here's the info for the glass sealing problems. You need a helper and temperatures over 70F:

http://www.mustangmonthly.com/howto/mump_0902_how_to_replace_windshields_and_backlights/index.html

http://www.mustangmonthly.com/techa...stang_windshield_glass_replacement/index.html

 

Post these issues in the General Tech section on the main page. More folks will chime in and help out.

 

When you store the car for winter....throw a clothes softener paper that's normally used in the dryer under the car , half of one on the engine & in the trunk. No mice. Don't use TOO much so that it gets the smell into the upholstery.

 

...and ya didnt even call me...ya silly...:banana:

nice boobies by the way................

 

Nope - Chevy's had the black cones. The ones I had on the car were off the back of a '53 Caddy. Too bad they took so much abuse over the years as they were a good fit. I'm a tad concerned with these ones - I suspect the neighbor kids are going to be hanging out in the shop more often

 

Gosh Rev, hadn't even thought about that - uh, you should email me a PM on where you work and how to get ahold of you - so's in future I'll know who to call

 

Well ive been workin on the wagon behind the scenes gettin it ready to show off at car shows an cruise in's. Its slow slow process right now


sorry if ive bumped an old thread

 

Heck ya, that's what the thread is for!
I finally got my front shocks and rotors swapped out. Riding like new now!

 

Mine's in for an alignment (and steering wheel straightening). Crooked steering wheels are a pet pieve of mine...

 

On Tuesday morning three buddies (Lee - CS54, Jack - has a 55 BelAir Hdt and a 35 Hudson coupe hot rodded, and Ricky - has a '57 retractable and a unique '65 Mustang retractable and some in the works hot rods) showed up to help out with the tranny swap. Funny how a wagon that calved a turbo 350 last September, was pressure washed and then put on the hoist to drip dry all winter, can still be dripping tranny fluid. And everything was still covered with transmission fluid (car blood as my wife calls it), and we tackled the swap to the 700R4 and we all got ugly dirty. The ugliest part was removing the old Turbo 350. I guess I was a bit overenthusiastic when I originally tightened the bolts back in about 2000 because every one of them was very tight and it seemed like they were all a lot harder to get to now than they were when we were ten years younger. And I'd done the exhaust since so it was tucked in tighter than previously so we had to twist and turn the tranny - good thing we had the hoist and a tranny jack but even with all of that it took half the bloody day to get the old one out.

Then last minute we realized that the bolts that come with the adapter kit to make a 700 work on a Pontiac engine that are for the torque converter were not the correct ones so it just happened that the converter guys are only ten minutes from home. So we blast over there and they actually make us three of the correct bolts (nice guys at TCS Converters) and by the end of day Tuesday we had the new trans in and bolted up and had just started on the shifter linkage. I'd bought a Lokar universal kit to use which made the hook up easier but still not just a couple of minute job.

Wednesday Lee and Jack came back (Ricky had to babysit his grandson -I think he had mixed feelings about that as he loves the little guy but he also was having "fun" with the guys) and I'd just about completed installing the kit for the throttle linkage that is required, and we adapted my old throttle and kick down brackets to work with the new TV cable and the throttle linkage, finished up the shifter linkage, hooked up the balance of goodies and voila. Everything works just like it is supposed to.

Boy, were we ever tuckered out big time. But the wagon is now functional again so we can get out and tow this year without concerns and maybe even get some kind of mileage when we aren't towing.

So all of a sudden we have two done vehicles - well, mostly done. A few trinket things to do on both but both the Chevelle and the Safari are now drivers. Yip skips, let the sun come out cause we are ready to play.

 

Started with wanting to clean up engine bay and drop in the new engine. Escalated to car is now totally apart for bodywork and new paint.