Well, I drug home another one
Well, it’s time for an update. I got sick, really sick, more so than I’ve been in a few years. I’ll spare the details but before I was strapped to a toilet for 4 days I did manage to get some stuff on the dart accomplished. All of the engine/trans mounts are done. The trans had some weird mount I’ve never seen before connecting it to the crossmember. Now a stock rubber mount is in place. I lengthened the middle kickdown rod a 1/2” to fix the geometry of the pivots on the kickdown linkage and had to readjust the length of the top rod afterwards and the trans shifts beautifully now. I cut off the homemade trailer hitch (junk) and pounded out a huge dent in the spare tire well that looked like it came from a trailer coming loose and running up under the car. Removed the valance along with the bumper. Valance will get replaced, bumper will get some hammer/dolly work I think. Saturday my girl and I pulled all of the interior out to start on redoing the seats and fixing some rust in the floorboards. There is a little more than I anticipated but it’s not terrible, maybe 5 patches 4” square each will fix it and I’ll get to cutting and welding on that soon. I was absolutely amazed to find an almost perfect build sheet taped to the tunnel under the rubber floor mat. That happened shortly after I was pissed about not finding one in the back or bottom of the seats. I’m almost feeling 100% so I’ll be back at it soon.
Well, it’s time for an update. I got sick, really sick, more so than I’ve been in a few years. I’ll spare the details but before I was strapped to a toilet for 4 days I did manage to get some stuff on the dart accomplished. All of the engine/trans mounts are done. The trans had some weird mount I’ve never seen before connecting it to the crossmember. Now a stock rubber mount is in place. I lengthened the middle kickdown rod a 1/2” to fix the geometry of the pivots on the kickdown linkage and had to readjust the length of the top rod afterwards and the trans shifts beautifully now. I cut off the homemade trailer hitch (junk) and pounded out a huge dent in the spare tire well that looked like it came from a trailer coming loose and running up under the car. Removed the valance along with the bumper. Valance will get replaced, bumper will get some hammer/dolly work I think. Saturday my girl and I pulled all of the interior out to start on redoing the seats and fixing some rust in the floorboards. There is a little more than I anticipated but it’s not terrible, maybe 5 patches 4” square each will fix it and I’ll get to cutting and welding on that soon. I was absolutely amazed to find an almost perfect build sheet taped to the tunnel under the rubber floor mat. That happened shortly after I was pissed about not finding one in the back or bottom of the seats. I’m almost feeling 100% so I’ll be back at it soon.