66 Dart GT HT Whatsitgonnabe?
After some goofing around in the basement yesterday afternoon, I finally got feeling and decided to slap the intake back on last night. After some express advice from the fellas in the coffee thread, I got that sorted even though my assortment of intake bolts were missing at first and, once found, of five different lengths ...
I plan to get this thing running so I can go for a quick test drive (yes, I know I've been saying that for a while ...) before snowfall. I though this was a good time to fit my MP valve covers but they interfered with the kickdown linkage bracket on the driver's side and the generator bracket on the passenger side. So the old chrome ones would have to do for now. They were not really leaking last time I had the engine running but I had to tighten them really hard to get them to stop so I decided to straighten them out a bit. They sure needed it ...
The LD340 interfered with the valve cover on the passenger side so I had to make a slot already there a little wider (I'll clean it up, I promise).
Once they were straight and the mating surfaces cleaned up, I grabbed my 'new' cool valve cover bolts, only to find the threads were too long.
And that nice, barbed hose fitting I got from McMaster-Carr - you can see it in the first pic - a tad on the long side. My bypass hose isn't happy ...
That's when I had to call it a day and go upstairs and put my little one to bed. I'll be back at it today!
After some goofing around in the basement yesterday afternoon, I finally got feeling and decided to slap the intake back on last night. After some express advice from the fellas in the coffee thread, I got that sorted even though my assortment of intake bolts were missing at first and, once found, of five different lengths ...
I plan to get this thing running so I can go for a quick test drive (yes, I know I've been saying that for a while ...) before snowfall. I though this was a good time to fit my MP valve covers but they interfered with the kickdown linkage bracket on the driver's side and the generator bracket on the passenger side. So the old chrome ones would have to do for now. They were not really leaking last time I had the engine running but I had to tighten them really hard to get them to stop so I decided to straighten them out a bit. They sure needed it ...
The LD340 interfered with the valve cover on the passenger side so I had to make a slot already there a little wider (I'll clean it up, I promise).
Once they were straight and the mating surfaces cleaned up, I grabbed my 'new' cool valve cover bolts, only to find the threads were too long.
And that nice, barbed hose fitting I got from McMaster-Carr - you can see it in the first pic - a tad on the long side. My bypass hose isn't happy ...
That's when I had to call it a day and go upstairs and put my little one to bed. I'll be back at it today!
