2011-03-15 Dave: Engine Hoses
2011-03-10 Biff: Engine Numbers
2011-03-08 Biff: Engine Inspection
2011-02-14 Bif: Fender Paint Engine Inspection
2011-02-03 Guy: Engine Pulled Out
2011-02-02 Guy: Engine Pulled
2011-01-28 Dave: Start Up
Assisted in cranking of engine; Helped with adjustments, wiring, and tuning; Assisted with the rear axle fluids and assisted with the dash assembly; Located and organized parts, put some away that were not ready to install; Installed cowl air vent, clutch and brake pedal pads and tidied up under dash the wiring and hoses; Note- side wiring harness goes around rear of cowl vent to connect to a/c and heater switch control switch bezel; Also, rear wiring harness mounts to left hand inside cowl to be run to the rear; Important things to note; Brake and clutch and gas pedals all lined up very nicely and look very professional;
Worked in trim shop; Disassembled gauge bezel to install odometer reset button; Note- it had been missed previously; Polished chrome on bezel and returned to assembly to be installed; Polished right hand air vent and sent to assembly for installation; Prepared rear ashtrays for paint, sanded off rust, masked and sent to paint; Worked with vent bezel pitting to remove as much as possible; Did very nice job;
Cranked engine and ran it; Feared rear axle with 80W gear oil; Installed lower heater blower duct; Note- this is the one we had so much trouble with breaking and cracking;Worked on restoring a/cheater control switches; Inspected rear switches and wiring for good connections; Sanded off rust and treated rust with paint; Disconnected wiring; Cleaned terminals and connected; Wrapped wiring harness with new wire wrap; Note- gorilla tape with the vinyl coating works great for this application; IMG 0620 for details; Connected vacuum hoses to switch and installed in dash; Connected duct cable to a/c box; Checked to make sure it worked; Tidied up vacuum hoses to all the switches; Hung under dash; Double checked dash wiring to heater boxes and finished dash wiring; Installed glove box, glove box cover and switch; Noticed dash gauge cluster did not have th odometer reset button in stalled; Big Chief located button and sent back to detail shop to be installed; Temporarily installed right hand air vent after it was cleaned and polished to perfection;
2011-01-24 Dave: Engine Cranking
Continued plumbing, wiring and cranking; Changed out spark plugs, put in new plugs; Tuned up engine; Connected plug wires; Marked no. 1, brought #1 piston to top to check timing; Note- could not get it to fire, went back to completing vacuum line plumbing; Installed shut-off valve between vacuum box and rear manifold PVC fitting; Connected PVC line to brake booster; Connected PVC from right hand valve cover to carburetor; Plugged one brake booster PVC outlet; Note- need to check this out with past pics and see where it connects; Attached A/C freon hose and plumbed all the way to A/C compressor; Wired the coil to distributor, cleaned up and loomed the wires; Checked solenoid, still no fire; Checked battery, battery good, placed battery on charge; Completed plumbing: A/C, PVC and water system; Conencted wiring in dash to dash cluster; Traced wires; Continued to install clutch and brake pedal with new proper bushings, clamps and washers; Still engine would not fire; Removed starter and battery; Took them to be tested; Battery came back weak, dead cell; Starter came back A-OK;
