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What other Car projects that are non Mopar does anyone have going on right now?

Besides the 49 F1 and the 57 Bel Air, I'm working on a 68 Fire Chicken with brake issues.

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This is my dads dream car. A week ago I stumbled across this an he took my offer, and my dad is coming down next week and we are driving the hell of it an have a blast.
 
After I completed the chicken, this 65 GMC was tasked to me. The owner basically did an eBay buy on this thing and brought it to us to get some issues resolved. Whoever sold it to him did not have any history on it as they bought and sold it to current owner. After I got into this thing, found the tires were toast being worn/damaged and 10 yrs old, brakes all around were gone, front rotors worn to maybe 1/16" thick on inner surface plus surface cracks, upper control arms had been cut and lengthened to get some geometry back into the suspension after it got a large drop, cotter pins missing from steering components, brake line retaining clips missing from frame to front flex hoses, air brake line being used for front brake flex hoses and my latest discovery[ found during re-assembly] of the outer tie rod ends being cut and welded together. The diff and front brakes are for like 73-87 truck so we sourced that stuff easy enough with guinea pigs for parts matchup. Ordered drop spindles and replacement upper control arms. Had a new p/s line made up for truck as the box is a metric fitting unit and the old hose had been cabbaged together to make the transition from metric on one end and U.S. on the other. Where the fitting went into the box, they had used teflon tape[ does not help on inverted flare fittings] and epoxy to try and seal it. Nice! Went to install the spindles/control arms/new[ uncut] springs and discovered that the spindles were wrong. Get new correct ones. Go to hook everything up and find that the outer tie rod ends are way bigger than the hole provided on the spindle which is when I discover that they had been cut/welded and it appears that the rest of the linkage make be incorrect also. The local NAPA matched up some tie rod ends that will work for the truck so hopefully will get to kick this rascal out and get back on the F1 next week. There is an item I've been seeing more and more that you fellow car guys should be aware of. What it is is that I've noticed that a lot of replacement suspension parts do not have the tapered stud dimensions correct. I suspect its a use one stud for multiple applications issue to make the bean counters happy and also from inferior made overseas junk. Where you would normally have just enough stud length to barely get a cotter pin in though the matching slot of the castle nut, correct way, you now have it sometime just over the top of the nut and others quite a bit past the nut top requiring you to stack washers under the nut so you can get a pin in it to lock it down.

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Lil insurance collision job. New fender,door shell,and dent repair on rear door. Just trying to keep the wolves away.

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ckessel said:
After I completed the chicken, this 65 GMC was tasked to me. The owner basically did an eBay buy on this thing and brought it to us to get some issues resolved. Whoever sold it to him did not have any history on it as they bought and sold it to current owner. After I got into this thing, found the tires were toast being worn/damaged and 10 yrs old, brakes all around were gone, front rotors worn to maybe 1/16" thick on inner surface plus surface cracks, upper control arms had been cut and lengthened to get some geometry back into the suspension after it got a large drop, cotter pins missing from steering components, brake line retaining clips missing from frame to front flex hoses, air brake line being used for front brake flex hoses and my latest discovery[ found during re-assembly] of the outer tie rod ends being cut and welded together. The diff and front brakes are for like 73-87 truck so we sourced that stuff easy enough with guinea pigs for parts matchup. Ordered drop spindles and replacement upper control arms. Had a new p/s line made up for truck as the box is a metric fitting unit and the old hose had been cabbaged together to make the transition from metric on one end and U.S. on the other. Where the fitting went into the box, they had used teflon tape[ does not help on inverted flare fittings] and epoxy to try and seal it. Nice! Went to install the spindles/control arms/new[ uncut] springs and discovered that the spindles were wrong. Get new correct ones. Go to hook everything up and find that the outer tie rod ends are way bigger than the hole provided on the spindle which is when I discover that they had been cut/welded and it appears that the rest of the linkage make be incorrect also. The local NAPA matched up some tie rod ends that will work for the truck so hopefully will get to kick this rascal out and get back on the F1 next week. There is an item I've been seeing more and more that you fellow car guys should be aware of. What it is is that I've noticed that a lot of replacement suspension parts do not have the tapered stud dimensions correct. I suspect its a use one stud for multiple applications issue to make the bean counters happy and also from inferior made overseas junk. Where you would normally have just enough stud length to barely get a cotter pin in though the matching slot of the castle nut, correct way, you now have it sometime just over the top of the nut and others quite a bit past the nut top requiring you to stack washers under the nut so you can get a pin in it to lock it down.

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Wow what a hack job that thing is. You better check everything or tell the dude to get a good insurance plan on it . I've seen these back yard engineer fixs ! I was going to put mechanic but I'd say that doesn't apply . I guess when you have nothing make it work but that's usually to get it home to fix it properly not to sell it!
 
Last bits and pieces to be completed soon, been at a standstill for too many years now. Finally having some time over between kids, house family, work etc..
A 1985 Mercedes Benz 190E 2,3-16 Cosworth. Turbocharged, looking at approx 400hp.

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Before I got my '68 Coronet 500, I had this. It's a '69 Firebird 400 w/455. I've done all of the work myself about 20 years ago.

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Well I got the TBird all wired up excluding the power windows.
I talked Hale into puting the carb on and seeing if it would light off...no issues except a water leak st T-stat...Gale is on the left and didn't really smile until he shut it off...the look on his face is priceless!

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Check your closest CaseIH dealer...
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Lol, I haven't seen one of those in awhile!

I hit Home Depot, Lowes, TSC today with no luck. There's a John Deere dealer that carries these parts and I always end up going there. Of course they're closed on Sunday.
 
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