farm fresh junk

[mikeys toy]

My '64 dart. Parked in a pasture in '88 after a rear end collision which pushed the car into the side of a passing car.
this is how I found it;

I drug it home, assesed the damage and got started.....

after lots of time with the porta power and some hammers, I got it back to a semblance of straightness....

I pulled the locked up 225 /6 and drained 2 gal of antifreeze out of the pan. After lots of cleaning, sanding and such I painted the engine compartment this morning.

still need a new fender though....

 

[mikeys toy]

I have an "allowance" of $150/mo for this which includes all other projects and maintenance on all cars.
I may have the Valiant 225 stabbed in this weekend.......

 

[sumbitmopar]

Lookin' good Mike! Keep up the energy and she'll be cruzin' before you know it! Also, let's see the step-by-step pics too. Good Luck

 

[pettybludart]

Keep going Mike,your doing a great job bringing her back!Reminds me of a time..

 

[camd64]

sweet! looks like you are well on your way. keep the pics coming!

 

[needsaresto]

Nice,another inspirational thread! I'll subcribe..

Looks like it was fun banging out the dents.Been there...

 

[mikeys toy]

I'm going to convert to ps and tandem m/c so I didn't bother to mask them.

 

[moper]

Looks good.

 

[mikeys toy]

The Valiant's 225 always had a backfire throught the carb with the holley. I put a BBS on it and the backfire was worse when cold, gone when warmed up.
Plugs, points and timing didn't change anything. I hooked up a vacuum guage and found it to be pulling 16in/hc at 1000rpm. Rocking the crank pulley back and forth I found there to be about 4* of slack, not bad, but got a timing set anyway.
This afternoon I pulled the timing cover and dicovered the nylon cam gear and 1" of play in the chain.....I think I just found my backfire.......
Engine gets stabbed tomorrow...

 

[mopar383]

keep up the good work

 

[needsaresto]

Right on brotha!

Good luck tomorrow and keep us posted!

 

[Dartnut]

Great to see another one saved, :-D keep us posted!

 

[mikeys toy]

got the engine in; started at 1430, finished (for the night) at 2030. Dropped the engine in, bolted it up, bolted up the tq conv. dropped the trans pan (had to chisel through 2" of mud), adjusted bands, replaced filter. changed the cooler lines. Cut rotten driver's side floor out. flushed and painted the radiator. installed fan and pulleys, belt. Tried to fix my mini starter, but had to swap it back out.
Should have it running tomorrow......

 

[pettybludart]

You go Mikey!!Sounds like you had a productive day!

 

[Optik]

got the engine in; started at 1430, finished (for the night) at 2030. Dropped the engine in, bolted it up, bolted up the tq conv. dropped the trans pan (had to chisel through 2" of mud), adjusted bands, replaced filter. changed the cooler lines. Cut rotten driver's side floor out. flushed and painted the radiator. installed fan and pulleys, belt. Tried to fix my mini starter, but had to swap it back out.
Should have it running tomorrow......

wow, thats like 3 months worth of work for me!!! good job, keep it up!
-Tim

 

[Tammy13]

post more pics along the way!!!
looking good...

 

[mikeys toy]

It runs!
Got everything done, a buddy stopped by and I put him to work. He pulled the gas tank for me and we found the top was rusted out......oh well. I hooked up my spare Courier tank for the time being.
I need to save up money to get some exhaust; Maybe once I sell the powerwagon.....Have no throttle atm until I fix the floors. I'm running a '61 225 carb for the moment, gotta rebuild the original '64 unit. Still need to time it as well.

 

[mikeys toy]

I'm running a 6 blade fan from the Valiant (fact. a/c) I had to remove the add-on pulley and run without a spacer to make the rad. clear.
Heater blows nice and hot, guages seem to work. Gotta swap out the broken leaf springs and 7.25 rear for the Valiant's and the 8.25. hmmmmmmm

 

[needsaresto]

I'm running a 6 blade fan from the Valiant (fact. a/c) I had to remove the add-on pulley and run without a spacer to make the rad. clear.
Heater blows nice and hot, guages seem to work. Gotta swap out the broken leaf springs and 7.25 rear for the Valiant's and the 8.25. hmmmmmmm

Wanna set of 3:55 gears for that 8 1/4? Shoot me a P.M..

 

[mikeys toy]

Naw; it's got 3:21s....perfect for how I want to drive.

 

[MVRCorp]

Here's my bucket seat and gas tank in my 67 D-100 P/U.:-D

 

[mikeys toy]

hey; it works!

 

[Wylde1]

Wow Mikey, you sure don't mess around. You work faster than most shops I know around here! Your results look pretty darn good. Keep up the great work.


Wylde1.

 

[ZooKypr]

"Wow Mikey, you sure don't mess around. You work faster than most shops I know around here! Your results look pretty darn good. Keep up the great work.
Wylde1."

And he has time to take pics and post replies...When's the last time you slept or ate...lolol

Keep going, were all waiting!

ZooKypr

 

[bayyum]

your workin very fast