I got this '85 wagon in the fall of '09 for a song. The fixing has started already and have been quite busy and this is the first time I have had to post about it. I have an '81 concord DL 4 door that will be donating lots of stuff to this project. The trans on the concord burnt out last month so it will not move anyways. At least now I do not feel as bad using the concord as a parts car. Had it for many years and it was a wedding present.
Was having trouble with starting/running and replaced the entire fuel system from the tank to the carb only to find out that the gas was being stolen and that was the reason for the stalling and no starts. Ordered a locking gas cap and it does not fit so I only keep 5L of gas in there for now.
When I got it there was no brakes, pedal to the floor. I fabricated a new hard brake line from the firewall fitting to the rear hose. That's as far as I got with the brakes so I could at least test drive the car. The two other hard lines going to the wheel cylinders will soon follow as well as the rear hose. The rear brakes look ok otherwise. Fronts work but the rotors are a bit thin, at least they are cheap compared to the concord ones, $40 each vs $95 each. I will have the three hoses made at a local hydraulic shop for $20 each. All the ones for sale at parts houses are $60 each and they are old stock that will soon crack, the rear is not available here.
Picked up some silver steel Jeep wheels from a '94 grand and they are at Winnipeg Wheel Works getting refinished, pick them up on Monday. Got 17 one piece chrome lug nuts and a set of 4 lock nuts from American Eagle Wheels. These sets come with one extra regular nut. The tires are Uniroyal Laredo LT215/75/15 RWL. These will be coming from my Safari AWD van and were bought in Sept 09. They seem a bit small for a 215 and threw the spedo out on the Safari, I was not impressed. Will be buying new tires for the safari on Monday.
Fabricated some full outer rocker panel skins from 22g double sided galvanized. If these work out as planned I will have to fab some more sets for sale purposes since there seems to be no source for these anywhere.
Charged up the a/c with redtek and it blows real cold. Today the temp was 33c with high humidity and went into the running car for a while for a smoke break, what a relief, did not want to leave the car but the gas was getting low. Turns out that the old man never used the a/c ever since new and it was empty from the rebuilt engine swap 1700km ago. Ashtrays are spotless. I used the lighter for the first time ever to see if it worked. The ashtrays will never be used.
All the trim pieces including the roof rack were off already when I got the car. I have been trying to figure out how the rack attaches. The holes on the roof seem to be plugged by corks?
Had an idiot moment when the trans dipstick broke off and pulled the spare from the concord only to leave it on the air cleaner and loose it during the test drive.
Pictures will follow soon.
EGG for the write up and the pictures to come.
Very interesting story!
Egg from me too!
Was super hot here today, 33c again with 60% humidity, so nothing got done. Had to wait until sundown to take some pictures and investigate how to get the hatch open.
The hatch will not open. The key turns the lock all the way but nothing happens.
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The outer rockers are real bad but the rust has not eaten anything else (down there anyway).
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Here is the new rockers, the green one with the white back is the prototype.
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Those rockers look nice. When will mass production start?
Everyone remember if you're welding galvanized the fumes are poisonous and can kill.
Quote from: priya on August 10, 2010, 01:18:07 PM
Everyone remember if you're welding galvanized the fumes are poisonous and can kill.
what kind of mask should one use then? any suggestions? Carbon filter, or just have lots of ventilation?
I bet some money could be made if you were able to mass produce those replacemen rocker panels.
Yes there is a huge market for these rocker skins. I am guessing that these would fit a hornet as well and if that is the case then we are talking about 19 production years of 4 door hornet, concord, and eagle. The 2 door rockers are already plentiful. Next problem would be shipping, these things are quite long.
Got a call from the wheel place today. They said that it would be better to let them sit until thursday so the clearcoat is fully set when they put the tires on.
Any ideas on how to get the hatch open?
Just got the hatch open. Took a flathead screwdriver and poked around while holding the key turned all the way. I guess it was a little stuck from sitting so long so I lubed up the mechanism as best as I could before closing it. The lift supports need to be replaced, they are completely dead.
I have a good working pair if you want them for ten bucks
You are probably right about why it was hard to open. Worn out struts can also contribute to it,
but if the hinges are out of adjustment that can also make it hard to open.
Cut down versions will also fit Gremlins/Spirits/SX/4's and Kammbacks. But you are right, the longer ones fit Hornets too.
These cork things I was talking about where the roof rack is suposed to mount. Are these suposed to be here?
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I wanted to get rid of these chrome strips from the roof but they seem to be mounted into holes. Anyone know where I could find plastic clips for this?
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Visit a local body shop to see what they have for very tight fitting plugs.
don't the roof racks mount with well nuts and screws that i believe are available at the eagle nest store?
Yes, they do and we do have them. But I think he wants to eliminate the roof rack. That is if I was paying attention to his post.
I had been thinking of getting rid of just the chrome strips and assumed that they were taped on but when I found mounting holes underneath then the plan went to finding new clips and keeping the strips. Welding these holes up would prove to be a massive job up there.
As for the roof rack, it has to go back on as well for the same reason. I guess that the PO had put corks in all the rack holes after removing the rack.
The previous picture shows one of these corks with 8 years of weathering. I had just found it odd, thats all.
From the last pic you can see from the grime just how long this car had been sitting.
Don't we have well nuts and screws for roof racks in the forum store?
Went to check on the jeep wheels a few days ago and dropped off the new tires for the safari.
Here are the straightened and refinished jeep wheels waiting for the rubber from the safari. These guys have done work for local new car dealers on crappilly finnished new wheels that have rust spots from being on the lot too close to the street in the winter. Any of the car dealers on major streets will have a row of new cars close to the street that get sprayed with salt from the passing traffic in the winter. They charge $49 per steel wheel to refinish the whole wheel in paint and make sure it is straight, $65 for powder coat in any colour but metallic and I wanted original metallic so no powder coat for me.
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Here is the LT215/75/R15 Uniroyals that are going on the jeep rims.
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Got the new wheels on finally. Went and got a 21 day driving permit then took it straight to the car wash. Took almost half an hour to clean it up.
Before the car wash:
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Looks like someone used a bumper jack on the car, note that the bumper is higher on the passenger side:
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Bumper jack is what Eagles came with -- to far off the ground for AMC to use their standard scissors jack. I wouldn't think a bumper jack would cause that kind of carnage to the bumper unless there were some other issues with its supports.
Was it used for a getaway car?
my front bumper is messed up like that on the drivers side and I have no idea why.
It's been a while since posting. Kind of had a disaster about a week after my last post and the new paint on the inside of the wheel is ruined:
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Good news is that I already had the cylinders and shoes and enough brake line kicking around to replace the remaining lines while it was apart so now all the lines from the firewall back are new. The drums had lots of meat left so I had them machined and I cleaned them up and used bbq paint:
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The weather did not cooperate with the days I had to work on the car so it took longer than expected but it is on the road again. The next few days are supposed to be warm and dry so I will be getting the rockers patched up and ready for welding as well as the rotors, pads and calipers. The calipers will be painted red with specialty paint. Also got some monroe shocks for the rear. And the good news gets even better, the guys at Winnipeg Wheel Works said that they would redo the inside of the wheel for free.
double post fixed
Congratulations on the progress.
Quote from: IowaEagle on August 26, 2010, 11:24:04 AM
Bumper jack is what Eagles came with -- to far off the ground for AMC to use their standard scissors jack. I wouldn't think a bumper jack would cause that kind of carnage to the bumper unless there were some other issues with its supports.
Maybe someone used a bumper jack incorrectly and didn't have it in the slot.
Some more progress. Being here in Winnipeg there is a weather deadline that I have to fight. After a certain point this kind of work cannot be done outdoors.
Almost at the point where welding can be done on the driver side.
Got everything cut out, sandblasted and the needed pieces fabricated. I am really trying to get everything done without touching the interior.
Here is the worst part:
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Made a templates for patches:
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Made a patch from the template out of an old computer case:
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That was a really good idea. Keep us posted.
Got the last piece for the driver side made up and test fitted. Note the vice grips holding it in place. I still think some trimming from the top of both pieces is in order to keep the heat farther away from the interior while welding.
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The two pieces line up and touch each other and will be welded together.
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Tomorrow it will be time to start on the passenger side. I am not concerned about body sagging since the floor is solid and the inner rockers are intact enough that it won't sag.
now that's resourceful! :o never would have thought about nabbing a comp case for that...
Test fit of the rocker skin:
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This is what was left of the passenger side rocker:
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Did you need and inner one too? I would say the OE rocker definitely had seen much better days. Great work!
I don't know why you didn't wait until it really needed replacing. ;D
That replacement looks really good.
Bad news:
Nothing got welded but it is ready to weld everything. I have all the equipment, one cheapo 120v flux mig with 030 wire, one Lincoln 5000hd 220v flux/gas mig with 035 flux wire, a lincoln autodark mask, but have never welded before. I got stood up by three welder guys in a row. So the car is still sitting there with 2 feet of snow (I have shoveled the car out since).
I did get frustrated at one point and after being successful trying a 3 inch long bead on an old fender, I tried tacking in one of the pieces but determined that the borrowed autodark mask was not darkening so I stopped for safety reasons after 3 tacks and bought a new Lincoln autodark mask. The snow came the next day.
During sandblasting:
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Where it stopped:
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How did you get that outer rocker formed in one piece? My sheet metal break will only do a piece 4' long.
WOW!! Nice work on the rockers! Being a former Winnipegger, I know what you mean about working outside in the cold.
Not much fun when you can't feel your fingers hey? ;)
Where do you live? I grew up in East Kildonan and moved to Alberta in 94.
Good news. Over the past few days a lot got done.
New coil springs arrived with KYB shocks. Got lucky with 3156 springs and the uneven height issue and it seems to be level. Pics to follow.
All four shocks are in. Trans has new fluid, filter, gasket, dipstick and bands adjusted. The mystery of the stuck in 4wd problem turned out to be a broken clip that goes here:
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A cotter pin was used for a temporary fix. Anyone know where to get a proper clip? Jeep part number: J3241415, #15 in this diagram.
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The rockers are fixed. After welding, the inner rocker cavity got 3 coats of Krylon bbq paint then the seams were filled with Plus 1 off white paintable seam sealer. After it set up it got 3 coats of Permatex smooth undercoating.
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Now the rocker skins go on. After this all the welds were ground down and coated with Rustolium cold galvanizing compound, looks like primer.
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More to follow....
Finally had some time to post updates.
After sealing the seams I covered it with krylon enamel. This was the only red colour I had at the time.
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I am quite happy with the 3156 springs and KYB GR-2 shocks although the bushings and washers for the top were the wrong ones and still need to swapped for the larger ones. The rear shocks are Munroe matics. Should have never got them but that was before finding the KYB ones for the front.
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Drove it straight to the local Rust Check and for $30 they drilled holes, blasted the insides and put body plugs in. I was going to take it to Ziebart but they were rude grouches and it seemed that they did not want to do it and they wanted $120.
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On the road again, this is just before going to Rust Check:
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Quote from: priya on November 27, 2010, 10:43:31 AM
How did you get that outer rocker formed in one piece? My sheet metal break will only do a piece 4' long.
Used a digital hydraulic metal break at a metal roofing/siding place. Had to convert my metric measurements to thousanths of inches to use the machine. It can do probably 15 feet, never actually measured the width.
Have been real busy lately so have not posted much about this project. On a good note I have been driving it at least every second day since my last post and at one point had to make it a daily driver for about two weeks when the new water pump (six month old) on my safari exploded on it's own (fenco brand). It also took out the belt, fan clutch, fan and power streering hose.
Not much further work has been done during the winter except emergency repairs to keep the car going. Had to get a 3 foot piece of pipe welded in before the muffler. On the way there the front brake pads crumbled and fell apart. Had to turn around and pick up the rotors and pads at home before driving to the muffler shop metal on metal. This happened at the wrong time since the front brake hoses were still in the mail.
At least the front brakes are working good now.
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On the way back from the muffler shop I was informed that I was not getting the safety the next day with the drivers side doors looking so bad so I made a call and got into a friends heated garage at 9pm that night and on the way picked up a can of krylon epoxy paint and a roll of masking tape at crappy tire.
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Turned out sort of ok considering the outside temperature was -20c and I uses a green dish scrubby to skuff it up and then about 1 hour of drying time with the heater blowing on it.
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Then the very next day I was downtown at 8pm and the battery decided to die for good. Had to get a ride to part source, closes at 9pm and bought the best battery they had along with an 80 watt battery blanket. I always get dual terminal batteries so they can fit any car.
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Some good news. While checking out carb/manifold options for the 68 Javelin I discovered that it has a ford 2100 carb. Will this come in handy for the Eagle?
Some bad news:
Some guy with a 1998 chrysler concorde figured he could turn right from the left lane. I was in the right hand dedicated turning lane and hit him pretty hard. Almost no damage, a little scuff in the paint but his car is going to be a writeoff. Hit him on the passenger side where the fender and door meet. Smashed off his mirror, broke his passenger door window and when he tried to open the door it buckled and would not close. Very fortunate that the bumper caps were not on at the time and safely stored away
I see this as revenge for chrysler taking the Concord name putting it on an unrelated car.
So now the worse part:
I am worried that since the insurance company wants to see the car that it may be taken off the road for looking so distressed. They have been known to do that.
The only real damage seems to be the need for an alignment since it pulls to the right now. The collision did happen while in a right hand turn entering a turnpike.
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Keep us posted. The revenge thing may not be it. The Chyrsler Concorde platform started life on AMC drawing boards before the takeover merger. The Premier was the first incarnation of what was to be AMC's new line of midsize cars.
Told the insurance company that since there is no real damage that I would not be making a claim.
The eagle is going to be out of service for a while due to needing a water pump, fan and fan clutch both of which have developed a death wobble but no leak yet. The only parts I need to buy for this is a water pump gasket and a jug of coolant.
The back yard has a few inches of water in it right now and thats where the parts car is. So the eagle is going to sit until the yard is dry. Going tomorrow to switch the insurance to parking insurance until it is fixed and ready to take to a hoist for the control arm, hub and half shaft.
Progress today!
Took the fan and clutch from the Concord and got a new water pump, 195 thermostat, gasket and a jug of coolant. The only pump I could get anywhere except the dealer is a fenco and it is new. I hope it does not explode after 6 months like the fenco did on the 97 safari.
When taking apart the Eagle I noticed a few different things.
The PS pump front pivot bolt is slightly longer than the concord one and had to be slightly forced past the pulley with no damage and has an 8.8 grade metric head but standard threads like the grade 5 Concord one, very odd bolt indeed. Had to use a crescent wrench on this one.
The bracket that holds the upper idler pulley has a factory looking 3/16" black steel spacer between it and the aluminum L bracket that it mounts to, the Concord did not have this spacer.
Whoever thought it was a good idea to use hard gm style vacuum like was an idiot. What a dumb idea to use regular line for the devices then adapt to a flimsy line then hard line then to flimsy stuff then back to regular line. This junk has to go.
There was a 180 in there, no wonder the heat was lacking during -30c winter.
Anyways it's ready to put back together now. Thanks to the rain it is not done yet.
Where did you buy the coil springs from? Are they the same length between left and right?
There is a mom&pop parts store here in Winnipeg. It's called Norgrove auto parts. They are the only place that was willing to get them for me. They are for a 1975 Hornet V8. And yes they are both the same length and I got lucky with the uneven height issue, no need for spacers on this one.
Progress on this car has been real slow lately due to securing the Javelin and getting it here before the flood. The property it was on was getting sandbagged and the car could have been under water where it was.
At least it is back here now running and driving after many long days of little fixes.
So as far as the Eagle goes I am back to work on it. My goal is to have it ready for the Calgary meet.
It needs to have the cooling system put back together then driven to the shop to change the half shaft and get the hub rebuilt. The only part that is missing is the O-ring which at this point is going to have to come from the Cat dealer. While it is there I will get them to change the front dif and transfer case fluids.
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If you're coming to the calgary meet, let us know asap. We'd really like to know who's actually coming.
Quote from: Whuntmore on July 09, 2011, 03:31:12 PM
If you're coming to the calgary meet, let us know asap. We'd really like to know who's actually coming.
I am really tryin here. Got everything under the hood back together and took it for a spin. Runs great, real quiet and the ac is real cold. There is still the issue of random stalling at idle or a stop sign which I'm sure had something to do with the solenoid thing on the back of the carb. Sometimes this goes away for days.
The hub is so bad that in 2wd the rotor rubs while turning right.
The fan on the left is from the 81 Concord. The Eagle fan on the right has a seized clutch.
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Needed to borrow this strap chain to hold onto the pulley.
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One last belt to adjust.
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Been driving it for a few days now, 30c today. No cooling system problems. Tomorrow will be the real test since the temp is supposed to be 34c (94f). Goes into the shop monday for the hub/axle.
This feedback problem has to go. Seems to cycle through 3 moods. #1. runs perfect with a slightly high idle. #2. runs a bit lumpy with a normal idle speed and pings under load. #3. drives ok over 65km/h, anything below 50km/h chugs and it won't hold an idle and stalls when coming to a stop or turning around a corner. After stalling a full pump of the gas pedal before starting makes it go away most of the time.
Seems that when the outside temp is above 30c it runs the best and almost none of the grumpy mood #3. Colder rainy days make it act up lots.
I have that ford 2100 that will be coming off of the Javelin after the new carb for it arrives. It seems to work quite good on the single exhaust 290 and would not be too much carb for a 258.
Also I will soon be getting one of those HEI distributors.
This issue should not be a problem driving to Calgary, just a minor inconvenience. This is 825 miles away (1300km). Drove there once before, left at 6am got there at 7pm.
After some long delays the Eagle got into the shop a few weeks late. It is up on the hoist now and the repairs are done. Front half shafts, driver side hub rebuilt. Noticed something else, the rear passenger axle seal just started leaking, did not wreck the shoes yet. This is being fixed in the morning. This will be done the easy way by changing the inner seal only.
While all of this was going on some new wheels worked their way into this project.
ROH of Australia, 15x7, 5 on 4.5, exact same backspace as a stock Eagle rim, hub bore is too small. The tires, Yokohama Avid T4 225/60/15 went to the Javelin for the ET mags. These wheels are at Winnipeg wheel works to open up the hub bore on the front ones and 1" spacers will be used on the rear so the center caps will clear the big axle nut and eliminate the hub bore issue.
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You are doing a very nice job. Keep the good work going!!!
Anjo
Holland
So I go and pick up the wheels from the shop and all four had the hub holes made larger. This was not the plan and only 2 were supposed to be altered and the beads smoothed, the other 2 were just supposed to get just a quick bead smoothing. So anyways this $80 bill turned into a $150 bill. This ate the budget for the spacers. Oh well, at least they can be properly rotated now, no center caps on the rear.
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So after all this planning and let downs there is a major issue again. The driver side half shaft is incorrect and rubs the grease fitting and has worn half way through the boot already after 300km.
The garage always gives me a super deal since I do all their computer stuff and we trade. Got the Eagle back with the following work done:
both half shafts (bought at the same time)
R&R driver side front hub, I took the hub to a machine shop to be rebuilt with $100 in parts.
both driver side ball joints
T-case fluid change
rear diff oil changed
passenger side inner rear diff seal
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Now the problem stuff, the ruler is 2 cm wide and measuring from the top of the flange in the control arm where the ball joint goes, wrong half shaft:
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Note the massive boot compared to the other side, red cardboard in 1 cm wide:
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This is the other side with correct half shaft, there is approximately 1cm difference in clearance between the boot and flange from this side to the other:
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Since this axle bolts in despite the wrong outer joint and boot, what vehicle could it be meant for?
4 cyl eagles have a smaller halfshaft.
Someone hit the dealer install trailer hitch in a parking lot. Just as well, after seeing this I am glad I never towed anything.
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Quite an uneventful winter as far as car issues go. Did a few detours that a regular car cannot do. Driving along a ring dyke and encounter an impassible crash so I just went down the side to the frozen river for a bit and back up on the other side of the crash, 45 degree angle. The coppers and tow truck driver were dumfounded. I guess I am lucky there was no ticket involved but I was long gone before they had relocated their jaws after hitting the ground.
Last week or so I went through a flooded underpass and the next day the passenger side hub locked solid. According to the PO receipts that hub was rebuilt less than 9000km ago. I guess the idiot forgot the o-ring or grease or something. The Eagle is sitting at the garage waiting for a hoist that can be tied up for a few days or more, they have 10. I keep trying to pay them for past repairs but they won't accept any money, I guess they love the Eagle experience. Irregardless I keep them well fed with pizza vouchers from work for their good effort.
Almost everything that has been trouble on this car had been recently (mileage wise) so called repaired by a shmuck.
In the fall I had forgotten to post in this thread that the newly rebuilt 8000 km driveshaft (by the PO's shmuck) fell out while getting gas. Tore the u-joint and straps, lucky it did not bung up the threads. Good thing it happened at a stop since it was the front that let go. Napa had the straps and u-joint for for like $20 cash, the counter guy said just give me a 20 as he needed to get dinner and he was broke.
Wow, some good work here. Looks like the same sort of work Threepete needs.
Well this daily driver project has come to an end today with really bad news. The passenger side frame rail has separated from the shock tower. :(
Pics to follow.
That is bad news. You had a lot of work into this project.
Wow, that is a bummer!
Quote from: vangremlin on March 16, 2016, 12:38:04 PM
That is bad news. You had a lot of work into this project.
Well at least the rest of the work had not been done yet, was just about to be. Had it all set up to do lots of work as soon as the ground was going to be dry. Was going to pick up the parts car and swap the nicer doors gaining power windows and locks and flat hood with ornament, nice windshield, 1000km alternater, newish fan blower and the usual other things. Also arranged with the parts already on hand was the new exhaust system with the thrush turbo and Clifford Eagle header and the gronk 2150 complete setup swap and hei. Also have a bunch of parts that were waiting to be put on this spring/summer. Everything (not from the parts car) will be for sale soon and I will offer it all in the for sale section.
I am going to abandon the parts car now. If I just walk away from the parts car then I default on the $250 owed on storage and he will break even on scrap value at the shredder. Unfortunately there is no way to gain on anything by keeping the parts car as the resale of anything would be trumped by moving it again and further higher storage costs at my current storage place that includes guard dogs, electricity and an air hose for $25 cdn/month..
Now I can just concentrate on the 68 Javelin and the safari van that both need lots of work.