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What did you do to your Mopar today?

Stripped dash out of my 69 coronet, pulled the ENTIRE undercarriage out and mounted wheels under the frame. Going to clean and POR-15 the dash frame area and start getting the entire underside of the car stripped and ready to paint/ POR15. My knuckles are beat up and my back and shoulders are sore from getting 40 year old bolts broke loose upside down under this car....DAMN it's hell getting old! Spring is just 2 1/2 months away and I want her ready to accept a new color, gotta hustle....

That engine sure looks pretty mmissile, great job IMG_0770.JPGIMG_0769.JPGIMG_0768.JPG!
 
Spent Saturday cleaning the Imperial, then going out for a pizza with the family. Put about forty miles on the car. It's the first time I've power-washed the car in the two years I've had it - usually, I hand-wash the car in the yard, but the wind was a little nipply. But, boy, does it look good!

Changed out the fuel pump in the Coronet finally, as well as reinstalled the factory tach and sending unit that I sent out to The Gauge Guy in Arizona. Tach and the sending unit work great! So, that's done.
 
Thanks...but that is high on the list to be removed. I picked up a pair of 15x8 and 15x6.5 steel wheels...figuring out if i'm gonna go RWL or Redlines...
Dieselholic said:
Very nice looking Roadrunner! I don't know why, but I've always liked the look of road wheels and thin white walls on that body style Roadrunner
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Finally figured out how to rebuild my OE sway bar brackets. Stupid me last year or so while replacing the bushings up front found the shop guys doing the work couldn't get the new bushings in the old brackets and gave up and put in aftermarket ones welded right to the k member. Ever since then and having to look at that mess I finally got around to trying to figure out what the deal is with these, turns out not a lot of these around to begin with, go try to find some complete used ones or new ones anywhere what a pain.

Since this is my first one it didn't even dawn on me that my old ones were pretty smashed up from years of slamming stuff, when the shop tried to replace them and the new bushing wouldn't fit we all scratched our heads even opening one side etc lol.

After not being able to find any new ones or used ones for that matter I researched as many threads as I could find and found a cross reference to moparts ug to a guy in Florida who is fabricating new straps with the same stamping as the OE ones pre bent just cut and weld, sort of but for $44 and 3 day shipping included why not? I am a below amature welder with my free 90 wire welder I got but hey got part to practice with :) the new bushing is a bit larger than the arch on these new brackets but with some play and hammering and stretching it works lol I am now able to keep in like it is and pry in and out bushings as needed! yeah! Sometimes its the little wins ya know?

Old beat to **** brackets next to new ones.







 
Ordered new Sidewinder heads from Modern Cylinder heads, headlights and Guages from speed hut...
 
I didn't do it all in one day, but here is what I have done recently:

New front calipers, pads, and stainless brake lines.
Turned rotors
New front wheel bearings
Front end alignment
Adjusted manual steering box
Took off pinion snubber.
 
Went home at lunch, opened the garage, walked by it as I went in for lunch wishing I had the afternoon off to work on it[emoji30]
 
At least you get to walk by it at lunch I don't get to see it at all till I get home from work...
 
Good job guys. I need a push again....these posts help.
 
I took Randy C.'s templates and used them to cut out and fabricate the two braces that mount to the front of the radiator support frame and bolt to the underside of the grill lower crossbars in order to take the weight of those heavy hidden headlight cases. Worked out pretty well for me and bolted right up. I used 18 gauge steel. They are just test fitted right now, I still need to remove them and sand/prime and fine tune them to look a bit cleaner. But...that's progress!!

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I spent yesterday with fellow FBBO member 'MowPar', so we could play with the cars. The plan was to swap diff's and fix up a strange new noise picked up in the Belvedere, but plans change as we all know. Brakes on the GTX had frozen a bit since I haven't driven it for a few months. So that needed immediate attention from the crew.
First of all we needed to move the Race prepped Dodge Viper;

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then whip the covers back;

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Cars are in the open again and ready to put up on the hoist.

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Fortunately I had the master cylinder sleeved in stainless a few years ago, and the freeze-up was due to a minor amount of corrosion on the very out edge of the main piston. Some cleaning, buffing and a spray of brake lube - ready for assembly and bleeding. Job done, and back to a happy pedal. :headbang: We'll pay musical diff heads in a few weeks time. :yes:

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Changed Transmission Oil

Changed Transmission Oil, and it needed it too. And then took it for a spin.
 
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