Old Man Mopar
Righteous Dude
Watching with great anticipation.
Thanks.Watching with great anticipation.
It's a good thing my anticipation easily lasted the whole ten weeks J.R. (LOL).Thanks.
I did some progress today. I will post some pics.
After heating that bushing/spacer with a torch for about 10-15 seconds, then let it cool, and it just about popped out on its own with a few taps from a chisel to spin it. I then measured the hub and crank opening with a digital caliber, measured 1.79" and 1.81", so I was good to go.
I then installed the engine, not realizing that the rack and pinion on the HDK set up needs to be installed first. So I pulled the motor back out for the second time today, slid the R&P in, and then came up with this:
It's a good thing my anticipation easily lasted the whole ten weeks J.R. (LOL).
I just installed the 16'x8' door on my garage that I built over the last year. I tightened the springs down and got some binding when I opened the door all f the way. When I was relieving some tension, the spring kicked and wedged my arm into the track, cutting it down to the bone and 3-4" long. Went into a 2 hour surgery and am out of work (Deputy Sheriff) for at least weeks. I start physical therapy in about a week. It sucks mainly because I was about to install the hemi in my Dart yesterday and decided to get the door done instead.
Gotta watch those doors, I had never had stitches in my life till I was helping a buddy with the same kind of door. Spring kicked off mount and took the center support through my wrist. Had to wrap in a roll of paper towels and blue painters tape till I got to ER haha.. Loving your build thou..
Boy I've missed a good deal of work and woe from the sounds of it--that color is brilliant in the truest form of the word and beautiful! But that wrist--damn dude--I fortunately haven't had to mess with one of those springs...yet. I was in a friend's garage once during an engine swap and the spring on his door just broke out of nowhere. We had no idea what happened--thought someone had ran into the house with a damn 18 wheeler...then the garage door just sagged on one side and started to drop on its own. I think we both had to check our shorts. I hope it's healing up well!