1966 Dart GT Slant 6

Had some time to work on the Dart yesterday. It was pretty hot with an intense sun so I didn't do anything super complicated in the engine bay. I stopped a leak at the power steering pump that I think I forgot to mention. The pressure line wasn't seated all the way so it just took a couple of turns with a wrench to fix it. I took it for a spin around the block to see if the transmission was acting any better. Had to do a couple more fills of transmission fluid before it started working right. Think my homemade seatsink for the HEI module isn't good enough as it started acting weird once it got hot. I have another one that I brought home many months ago that I need to find again and install. Lastly I raised the idle a little as it would struggle once it got warm. Raising the idle seemed to fix that. Need to do a vacuum based tune to make sure that things are all working right. Maybe this weekend.

Once that was done I figured that it was time to finally replace the turn signal cam switch. Pulling the steering wheel was way easier than I expected. I didn't realize that I would have to pull the wiring through the steering column to the connector under the dash. Since I was going to have to pull the dash out a bit anyhow I decided to go ahead and pull that end of the speedometer cable out so that I could test whether or not that was bad vs. the actual speedo. Overall it wasn't that big of a deal aside from not thinking that I should leave one or two of the original wires in the column to help pull the new wires through. Since the openings aren't exactly in great places it makes fishing the new wires through a lot easier.

Finished installing the new turn signal cam switch and reassembled everything. I didn't check for the proper alignment of the steering wheel so I didn't notice until I was clocked a few degrees. I didn't feel like pulling it back off as it was getting pretty hot in the car so I just left it like that for now.

Did a run around the block to see if the speedo cable was spinning with the transmission and it wasn't. Ordered a new cable and headlight switch so that I can finalize those things next weekend.