Jacks: 69 cuda fastback
Well as what happens to most people, you run into problems, sometimes (like me) you run in to them at the most annoying time. I was adding antifreeze and trans fluid to my car and yay it leaked....well it started off being the bypass hose (no biggy i have an extra one) replaced that, then apon farther inspection we noticed the waterpump was dripping i check under nieth it and yep it was the weep hole, so i had to get a new one, what a pain, so yesterday i went to work got one, came home pulled the old one off, and broke off the top most waterpump bolt off in the aluminum housing :angry4: well after some swearing, no biggy there is still a a piece of it sticking out. well then later i figure out WRONG WATERPUMP, awh, its a 69 motor wth, so i check ac and non ac motor, both of them exit the drivers side(i though all sb waterpumps exit passenger side?) anyways i got that figured out after looking in the books (and getting paid to look up stuff for my car cant beat that :) ) well its a 70-79 waterpump for a 318, ok done, get home we heat up the bolt still nothing, wont budge, break off what stud we have left, we tried using an impact screw driver and slicing a notch in the bolt to turn it out, nodda, then we use a reverse drill bit, and a easy out, nothing, actually we snaped my dads tap and die turning piece (dont know name its matco) no luck, well we decide now we have to drill it out, so we go about that, and we have about 85% of the bolt out and still no luck, hm now that i think about it can i heli coil it??? One thing my dad and his friends mentioned is we will probably have to put some ugly *** nut on the back side of the. what a pain im so close to driving her and then this happens. O and my tranny dipstick leaks to at the base where the factory welds hold on the bracket, i did some tacks around it the best i could, i guess we will have to see how that holds up. i was up untill 2 last night doing misc things on her, got the carpet it (dad went to bed) so there was not much more i could do so me and a friend decided to tackle it. I'll be doing more on this today i'll try and get some more pics up soon.
Well as what happens to most people, you run into problems, sometimes (like me) you run in to them at the most annoying time. I was adding antifreeze and trans fluid to my car and yay it leaked....well it started off being the bypass hose (no biggy i have an extra one) replaced that, then apon farther inspection we noticed the waterpump was dripping i check under nieth it and yep it was the weep hole, so i had to get a new one, what a pain, so yesterday i went to work got one, came home pulled the old one off, and broke off the top most waterpump bolt off in the aluminum housing :angry4: well after some swearing, no biggy there is still a a piece of it sticking out. well then later i figure out WRONG WATERPUMP, awh, its a 69 motor wth, so i check ac and non ac motor, both of them exit the drivers side(i though all sb waterpumps exit passenger side?) anyways i got that figured out after looking in the books (and getting paid to look up stuff for my car cant beat that :) ) well its a 70-79 waterpump for a 318, ok done, get home we heat up the bolt still nothing, wont budge, break off what stud we have left, we tried using an impact screw driver and slicing a notch in the bolt to turn it out, nodda, then we use a reverse drill bit, and a easy out, nothing, actually we snaped my dads tap and die turning piece (dont know name its matco) no luck, well we decide now we have to drill it out, so we go about that, and we have about 85% of the bolt out and still no luck, hm now that i think about it can i heli coil it??? One thing my dad and his friends mentioned is we will probably have to put some ugly *** nut on the back side of the. what a pain im so close to driving her and then this happens. O and my tranny dipstick leaks to at the base where the factory welds hold on the bracket, i did some tacks around it the best i could, i guess we will have to see how that holds up. i was up untill 2 last night doing misc things on her, got the carpet it (dad went to bed) so there was not much more i could do so me and a friend decided to tackle it. I'll be doing more on this today i'll try and get some more pics up soon.
