"Something in the Orange"

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Pita indeed. I ended up doing the "scab weld a bunch of washers inside and press it out with the weld breaking a few times because I'm a crappy welder" method.
 
Pita indeed. I ended up doing the "scab weld a bunch of washers inside and press it out with the weld breaking a few times because I'm a crappy welder" method.
lol. I tried that first but feared that it might fuse the shell for good if I got too aggressive with the heat. I set for A 1.5 and all my slag buggers just ripped out! Went with the fold over the lip and push hard method. Sucked! Only one black finger though
 
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PITA v 2.0. I broke one of my soft hammers getting both to within half an inch of home. One with the bushing in first the other with the pivot inside the bushing. Took them to Harbor Hydraulic and Machine and they pressed them the rest of the way. Thanks guys!
 
Yeah those Delrin bushings are like a rock hard like plastic. You get adjustable strut rods too?
 
You can see that the LCAs had some texture inside the bushing seats;
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I wrapped a socket with 80 grit and smoothed out the bore a bit.

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Makin’ fun of me!

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Well it steers and stops! Settling down some. I’m not digging the rake so much. Adjustments continue…
 
After I had my torsion bars out for over a year once back together I had to keep adjusting torsion bars because front end kept sagging. After 6-8 weeks or so it finally stopped sagging.
 
After I had my torsion bars out for over a year once back together I had to keep adjusting torsion bars because front end kept sagging. After 6-8 weeks or so it finally stopped sagging.
Yikes! I’m scheduled for an alignment on the 12th. Hope I can get it settled before that.
I attempted to get my head around the indexing idea but i couldn’t find much guidance on it in the FSM.
Did yours relax onto the bump stops?
 
Yikes! I’m scheduled for an alignment on the 12th. Hope I can get it settled before that.
I attempted to get my head around the indexing idea but i couldn’t find much guidance on it in the FSM.
Did yours relax onto the bump stops?
Yeah mine sagged all the way down to bumps stops a few times, usually after I drove it. It never sagged just sitting in garage. You can set height you want, get it aligned, and then adjust torsion bars to keep that same height as needed.
 
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One last pass to torque bolts, grease fittings, height adjustment, and one more brake bleed. It rolls pretty straight despite being all tore apart. Steering wheel is a little off. I’m taking it for a pro alignment Monday. See ya’ll out on the blacktop!
 
Drove down to the Columbia this morning. Lots of twisting mountain roads and MC’Ds for a pit stop in Raymond. I learned that there is a small cruise in there every Thursday at 1. Strange coincidence. We had parked right in their spot as folks were just showing up… had to run home to pick my son up from school however and promised to return sometime…
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Drove down to the Columbia this morning. Lots of twisting mountain roads and MC’Ds for a pit stop in Raymond. I learned that there is a small cruise in there every Thursday at 1. Strange coincidence. We had parked right in their spot as folks were just showing up… had to run home to pick my son up from school however and promised to return sometime…View attachment 1716408516View attachment 1716408517View attachment 1716408518
I thought that place looked familiar. Lunch. July 24th, 2017.

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Thanks Mr Steve. My wife was trying to get footage of the launch and keep the rest of our “pit crew” in order. I grabbed a frame from the second time slip.
This is the first picture of the theme where the front actually comes up, the back doesn’t squat a bunch, and the tires aren’t just spinning!
 
The hunt for oil leaks continues…

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Always a spot under the bell housing so it’s a bit of a relief that it is dry behind the dust shield. (Not the rear main seal). I found little leaks around the bolts on each valve cover, the oil filter, my pcv valve, and a broken o ring on my catch can. (That I’ve never emptied since installing it years ago) it had 1/3 a cup in there.

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Anyone else use one? When I was a kid I had an old Ford that had oil mess in the air filter pan all the time from the pcv valve and it seemed to gunk up the carb regularly. I have it routed to the intake here but I still don’t like the idea of all that oil in there. Am I crazy? Anyway I got o rings for each valve cover bolt and the separator. We’ll see how this turns out….
 
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the pcv shouldn't be run up to the air filter. it should be connected to manifold vacuum. if the other valve cover has a piped breather that's what goes up to the air filter. i stand to be corrected but as i understand it the manifold vacuum 'sucks' on the pcv valve and creates vacuum in the crankcase. this vacuum pulls clean air from the air filter housing via the piped breather connected to the other valve cover. so there shouldn't be any oil vapour in the air filter housing.
neil.
 
Mine came with some stainless steel pot scrubber that goes in a chamber on the inlet side. The last pic shows a chamber under one of the ports. That's the inlet, and inside that chamber is where the pot scrubber goes. Mine screwed off so I could install the SS pot scrubber.
 
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I have a feeling the clip retaining tool will get used again someday…a must have for that windshield trim btw
….yep! So the windshield is still fine but I didn’t treat the trim properly AT ALL! This was 2018 and I did some stuff to make the trim hang on then. I was cleaning the car up for the local car show this month and noticed the trim was peeling off at the top. I had to excavate the trim from a combination of dried butyl, bondo, and gorilla glue!

The primary problem was that some of the holes for my clips were too big. no screw that was large enough, had a head that would work with such limited space (between the clip and the trim). So I used bondo on them. There was a second problem that I didn’t know about or noticed that prevented the trim from laying down properly. So I attempted to glue it down and filled the gaps with the butyl stuff…. Back on the road I went.
It really looked ok actually. Until it didn’t.

So I dug around this weekend and found this little gold nugget of information:
68/9 barracuda windshield stainless clips

and the lights go on! All of my clips were different and in the wrong locations. I can barely remove the screws with the window in there but the worst are the tall clips on the top trim. they came out ok. Cleaned up the glue mess and made sure to use the shorter clips up there. Now I had to drill a couple new holes in not original locations and fill those oversized ones up. The trim lays down way better now.
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Well done, looks great Doug!
….yep! So the windshield is still fine but I didn’t treat the trim properly AT ALL! This was 2018 and I did some stuff to make the trim hang on then. I was cleaning the car up for the local car show this month and noticed the trim was peeling off at the top. I had to excavate the trim from a combination of dried butyl, bondo, and gorilla glue!

The primary problem was that some of the holes for my clips were too big. no screw that was large enough, had a head that would work with such limited space (between the clip and the trim). So I used bondo on them. There was a second problem that I didn’t know about or noticed that prevented the trim from laying down properly. So I attempted to glue it down and filled the gaps with the butyl stuff…. Back on the road I went.
It really looked ok actually. Until it didn’t.

So I dug around this weekend and found this little gold nugget of information:
68/9 barracuda windshield stainless clips

and the lights go on! All of my clips were different and in the wrong locations. I can barely remove the screws with the window in there but the worst are the tall clips on the top trim. they came out ok. Cleaned up the glue mess and made sure to use the shorter clips up there. Now I had to drill a couple new holes in not original locations and fill those oversized ones up. The trim lays down way better now. View attachment 1716427392
 
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