'75 Swinger, The Dartness!

IT'S ALIVE!!! MUAHAHAHAHAAHHAAAA!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAseb-JEaGE"]Meet: The Dartness - YouTube[/ame]

*ahem*

As I was saying, there's been quite a bit of hooking things up and installing things going on. it is now broken in, and ready to drive with the exception of the tranny. My symptom is that it refuses to change gear in any kind of timely manner, and will very often refuse to shift at all. the linkage and whatnot works, but when taken out of park and put into reverse, it takes a good 10-15 seconds of revving to get it to actually switch into reverse. likewise into drive, and back into park. Talked to a local trans guy, and he said that all I can really do short of pulling the valve body and replacing all the seals is get a bottle of trans-x, and shift it through the gears until it starts shifting properly. (Yes, there is plenty of fluid in the trans.)

anywho, you might notice that viscous fan and the ginormous radiator, and how those are not original to that car. you would be correct. They came out of a 1990 ram van at the local junkyard, and I think it's worth pointing out that it is not possible to put a larger radiator in that car without cutting things. In fact, I had to cut the radiator support, and a corner of the radiator bracket to get that one to fit. But, I do not expect to ever overheat that engine, ever. Not even sitting in traffic at black rock city when it's 115 out.

Anyway, I expect to be taking this thing out tomorrow if I can get the tranny to cooperate, and if I can't, that van I pulled the radiator out of had a mighty nice looking overdive automatic under it, :D