65 Barracuda daily driver
Hurricane Hilary sounded much worse than it currently is, but I felt better with the car in the garage. It's actually the first time it's in the garage since the V8 swap because there was just too much stuff in there. I took apart the engine stand to store it. I took the boom off the hoist and now it takes up a lot less space. The fenders that are supposed to replace the ones on the car are being stored in the car etc. I'll have to take a bunch of the parts to the Mopar Fall Fling swap to make some more room.
Another benefit of having the car in the garage is that I plan on finally fixing the massive transmission fluid leak soon and I feel like it's going to be easier in the garage - especially if I hit a snag. I should have all the parts I need. I'm planning on leaving the transmission in the car and just remove the extension housing. So I'll have to loosen the motor mounts, take the distributor or at least the cap off, drain coolant and transmission fluid, disconnect coolant lines and radiator hoses etc. I'm cleaning the extension housing off the slant 6 transmission in case it was a crack in the housing that caused the leak.
The bummer is that I will have to take off the exhaust to get to the transmission. It took forever to get it in a place where it didn't rub anywhere. I'll just have to carefully mark the position of each tube.
Well, let's let this storm pass first...
Hurricane Hilary sounded much worse than it currently is, but I felt better with the car in the garage. It's actually the first time it's in the garage since the V8 swap because there was just too much stuff in there. I took apart the engine stand to store it. I took the boom off the hoist and now it takes up a lot less space. The fenders that are supposed to replace the ones on the car are being stored in the car etc. I'll have to take a bunch of the parts to the Mopar Fall Fling swap to make some more room.
Another benefit of having the car in the garage is that I plan on finally fixing the massive transmission fluid leak soon and I feel like it's going to be easier in the garage - especially if I hit a snag. I should have all the parts I need. I'm planning on leaving the transmission in the car and just remove the extension housing. So I'll have to loosen the motor mounts, take the distributor or at least the cap off, drain coolant and transmission fluid, disconnect coolant lines and radiator hoses etc. I'm cleaning the extension housing off the slant 6 transmission in case it was a crack in the housing that caused the leak.
The bummer is that I will have to take off the exhaust to get to the transmission. It took forever to get it in a place where it didn't rub anywhere. I'll just have to carefully mark the position of each tube.
Well, let's let this storm pass first...
