1972 Daddy Daughter Duster
Sept 12, 2012
Just updating my thread. My daughters and I made some great progress since my last update.
- Swapped out the oil pick-up tube and installed the new oil pan.
- Rebuilt the steering coupler and installed the new steering gearbox.
- Replaced the crispy, frayed and overall crappy starter cable harness with a new Mopar piece.
- Installed the headers.
- Cleaned up some of the wiring and removed wires that lead to nowhere...a lot of them!
- Soldered and shrink tubed all the connections that had been spliced with wire nuts (ya I know crazy right? Guessing the PO was not a big electrical guy lol.)
- Fixed the gas gauge
- Resinstalled the leaking 90 filter plate with a new gasket set.
- Replaced a leaking Bypass Hose.
- Mounted the coil that the PO had dangling in the engine bay.
Here's the car at our first Mopar show! That maiden voyage felt damn good!
We already have a pile of new parts to install. Next things we attack are:
- Install the new tie-rods
- Pull seats, carpeting etc.
- Install rear seat belts (Car did not have them when we bought it!) Got an after market Jeep Wrangler rear seat belt replacement set.
- Treat floor & ceiling w/POR15
Will be ordering new carpeting, sound deadener etc shortly.
Looks like I will not be getting bored anytime soon.
Sept 12, 2012
Just updating my thread. My daughters and I made some great progress since my last update.
- Swapped out the oil pick-up tube and installed the new oil pan.
- Rebuilt the steering coupler and installed the new steering gearbox.
- Replaced the crispy, frayed and overall crappy starter cable harness with a new Mopar piece.
- Installed the headers.
- Cleaned up some of the wiring and removed wires that lead to nowhere...a lot of them!
- Soldered and shrink tubed all the connections that had been spliced with wire nuts (ya I know crazy right? Guessing the PO was not a big electrical guy lol.)
- Fixed the gas gauge
- Resinstalled the leaking 90 filter plate with a new gasket set.
- Replaced a leaking Bypass Hose.
- Mounted the coil that the PO had dangling in the engine bay.
Here's the car at our first Mopar show! That maiden voyage felt damn good!
We already have a pile of new parts to install. Next things we attack are:
- Install the new tie-rods
- Pull seats, carpeting etc.
- Install rear seat belts (Car did not have them when we bought it!) Got an after market Jeep Wrangler rear seat belt replacement set.
- Treat floor & ceiling w/POR15
Will be ordering new carpeting, sound deadener etc shortly.
Looks like I will not be getting bored anytime soon.
