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Brakes are 99% done! While trying to bleed the brakes yesterday, I broke both bleeder screws on the rears and one drum adjusting lever. Unfortunately I couldn't get an adjusting lever until next Tuesday since it had to be special ordered from every parts store I called. On the short test...

:tongue: Yeah but I gotta stop working on it and get it out of the driveway first! :butthead::bootysha::butthead: :toothy10:

I haven't gotten around to diagnosing the dash lights but all of the rest of them work. The latest project on the car has been to upgrade to disk brakes! :cheers: I got some SBP disks from a member here, I did all the hard lines last weekend, and all that I have left to do is mount the...

Almost time for Prom! :clock: :toothy10: You guys must be busy at work on it this weekend!

That's going to be wicked. I see you are a PBR fan as well. Nice. :) 3-spd on the floor must be pretty rare! Not that I wouldn't swap it for a 4-speed but it's pretty cool nonetheless.

My first A-body was almost that same car, but in red. I wish I hadn't sold that car since it was an original one but now I am building another that is a MUCH better starting point. :cheers: I'm just going to modify it anyway, so why mess up an original 273/4-speed one, right? I think...

Thanks, all! No pics today but this is what I got done: Visited the local pick-a-part where there's a picked-over '65 Dart and got: - spare windshield - speedometer cable since mine was broken - speedometer cable hold-down bracket at the transmission since mine was missing - e-brake...

After installing the adapter bushing for the torque converter to '67-up engine, and tuning up the engine yesterday, I FINALLY got the car running well enough to feel good about taking it out! :sunny::hello1: My wife and I drove it around the block and it all felt good so I took it on its...

Double post, but I wanted this to be in my "resto" section as well. http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showthread.php?t=133275 Forget expensive crappy plastic aftermarket clips that you have to file down with a Dremel tool to make work... That's what I *was* doing until I thought, "F***...

Very cool van! What kind of MPG are you getting with the OD trans now? I will replace my F*rd van someday, but probably with something that's a diesel. It was free and it's been reliable as a rock so it's hard to get rid of it just because it's slow and rusty. 8) Also, I've heard about...

Before the rain started today I managed to swap out my passenger's side window regulator (the old one would not budge at all which made removing it nearly impossible) and the BIG news is that I installed my 4-speed pedals! :toothy8::toothy8::toothy8: My car is now the rare 3-pedal automatic...

I had the C-body locks re-keyed to match the '64 Dart's ignition key. I almost had all of the keys matched to my '68 Chrysler 300 so that I'd only need to carry one set of keys, but decided just to keep them different. That's really good knowledge on the door handle differences. I took...

Ok... so I found more ghetto-rigged nonsense in the driver's door. Seriously, WTF is this? It's a broken and incorrect door handle, is what it is. The odd part on the back is another door button pressed onto the stem that makes contact with the striker to open the door. NONSENSE...

Put the '66 Barracuda windshield and new gasket in today and it all fits no problem with the screws sticking up. Will the dash come out with the window installed? Will it be easy to re-install? Will they loosen up over time and cause me tons of headaches? The answers to these questions will...

Ok so I didn't repaint the dash totally because the paint that matches the rest of the trim is a tri-stage, kind of expensive, and the wife wouldn't let me repaint all of the interior panels (she doesn't understand their NEED to MATCH!). (or my obsessive compulsiveness towards it! ;-) ) I'm...

This is the car that I came home from the hospital in. '73 Gran Torino Squire Wagon, 429 cid, woodgrain and all. Mom was in an accident in it in '79 where an 18 wheeler cut her off, sent the car up a snow bank (I'm a Midwestern boy) and back down into the semi and back all the way over the...

Thanks! The a/c panel and almost all of the dash trim was long gone before I got there. What right side trim are you looking for? I'm in the part of the Central Coast between LA and Santa Barbara. :smile: Today I spent a few minutes cleaning up the heater box, after installing the new...

I bought the car in Riverside. Today I finished removing the dash and started the stripping/dying/repainting process. The dash top was held in place by a lot of glue- probably 3M spray adhesive by the look and feel of it. I have to remove all of it before I can paint the metal part of the...

This car was put together by retarded monkeys on hallucinogenic drugs. The parking puller literally fell off when I went to see the car the first time. Apparently between then and when I bought the car, the previous owners (P.O.) decided that instead of using the ALLEN SCREW to tighten it...

Haven't had time to go back to the yard yet... and they want kind of a lot for it. We'll see. I'm sure that I can find another somewhere that is a runner.

Got those too. About the only thing I left behind was the engine itself and the gas pedal. I hope the gas pedal itself is the same!

Back to the pushrod/rocker arm issue: One of the rocker arms is cracked in the back of the socket so the push rod has a way to escape, and two of the push rods are bent. I could not for the life of me find the hydraulic rocker arms online but I did find some parts sitting on the shelf of a...

Thanks, and yep I got the center link, too.

Does a B-body GM car count? :cool: That's a '65 Bonneville 2-dr ht in the garage that I've owned for almost 15 years (my first car purchased with my money). It weighs 4460 lbs with me in it, runs high 12's when it hooks up on a good surface, has full interior and gets 14 mpg on the 130 mile...

Before this thread laps to page two and I start tackling more of the issues the car has, I'll appease your appetite for more pics. :happy10: Here it is waiting for the tow truck in the rain on Jan 2-2011. Here it is at home next to my C-body! From the other (slab)side: (Yeah the...

That is some valuable info- thanks guys! Yes I do have the pushbutton trans and no I don't wanna pull my car apart! ](*,) Oh well. Guess I know what I have to do. 273/4-speed. Anyone have a manual trans dash plate for a 64? :toothy10: For real. Someday I want to convert it! For now the...

I found out why the car was running so poorly. It turns out that three of the pushrods were not installed properly and two of those lifters had popped out of their bores! I used a magnet to grab them and set them back in. Whoever worked on this engine beforehand did a very poor job. Since...

How often do you get to say that? :cheers: I had a '64 Dart GT V8 4-speed that I stupidly sold earlier this year because the car was real rusty and I wanted the money for the engagement ring I had just purchased. Not saying I made a bad choice but I REALLY MISS that car. So the new wife...