1972 Canadian H-Code 340 Dart Swinger Special Resto - Finally started!
I haven't gone to sleep on my project but I thought the grubby messy work was done, Well not quite. Forgot about the rather grimy job of getting my engine back to the original appearance.
The worst part is getting that old orange spray bomb paint off, and damn its really stuck on the steel parts of the engine, I must have done a pretty good job back in the day. So out comes the dreaded Aircraft paint stripper and a number of coats and mess that that entails,
Not fun but that's the worst part of the process,
This engine only had a couple of thousand miles on it when I parked the car so it's really a fresh rebuild but 30 some years of starting it occasionally and not really getting it going left quite a bit of carbon build up and gunk so I'm this far in I just pulled the heads and check the cylinders and clean up the messy crap and confirm everything looks alright and clean the heads and mating surfaces,
Also took my new leaf springs apart and sent them off to the powder coater to get a much better paint job then what was on them so hopefully I'll get those back this week,
Some small progress but better a little then none, the march goes on.
I haven't gone to sleep on my project but I thought the grubby messy work was done, Well not quite. Forgot about the rather grimy job of getting my engine back to the original appearance.
The worst part is getting that old orange spray bomb paint off, and damn its really stuck on the steel parts of the engine, I must have done a pretty good job back in the day. So out comes the dreaded Aircraft paint stripper and a number of coats and mess that that entails,
Not fun but that's the worst part of the process,
This engine only had a couple of thousand miles on it when I parked the car so it's really a fresh rebuild but 30 some years of starting it occasionally and not really getting it going left quite a bit of carbon build up and gunk so I'm this far in I just pulled the heads and check the cylinders and clean up the messy crap and confirm everything looks alright and clean the heads and mating surfaces,
Also took my new leaf springs apart and sent them off to the powder coater to get a much better paint job then what was on them so hopefully I'll get those back this week,
Some small progress but better a little then none, the march goes on.
