70 Dart exhaust swap

Well... I went to put the oil filter back on and it didn't fit. I loosened the 90° adapter and rotated it a bit and the filter fit. Guess what happened when I fired it up to hear how it sounds! If you guessed that the adapter leaked at the block, you win. I pulled the adapter off, of course I had to loosen the exhaust I just put on, and the gasket around the outer edge of the adapter and the cork gasket around the bolt were as hard as a rock. Luckily my Bro in Law had some gaskets from past rebuilds and let me have them to replace mine. It took about 30 minutes to scrape the adapter gasket off the block, but I got it all cleaned up, put back together and it didn't leak. I'm going to take it out for the local cruise night Wednesday and check on the rearend rebuild and see how I like the 2.94 gears.