What did you do to your Mopar today?

hanks73340 · Dec 2, 2020

Got the a/c heater box out today. 47 years of crap in and on it.

Joske2 · Dec 4, 2020

Look what the Canadians dropped off

Fit is not bad, but most importantly, finally some room under the hood.

hemi*guy · Dec 5, 2020

Cleaned a little and drank a little!

HawkRod · Dec 5, 2020

hemi*guy said:
Cleaned a little and drank a little!View attachment 1036289

I really like the quick detailer - I use it on my cars too. No streaks, cleans almost everything well!

dadsbee · Dec 5, 2020

Started tearing her down...

themechanic · Dec 5, 2020

I installed an eye bolt in my garage floor and used a turn buckle to pull the header down away from touching the torsion bar today. Glad that's finally done.

Kern Dog · Dec 5, 2020

I had a 65 Dart for sale on ebay a few weeks ago. I picked it up in 2015 in non running condition for a cheap price.

I piddled with the car in between other projects, tinkering with the various inoperable things on the car. It was a slant six car that was converted to a V8 but wasn't finished.

I put in the V8 center link, got the car running, put in dual exhaust, added front disc brakes and did body and paint in the Spring of 2019. I was lazy about trying to sell it but when I decided that I wanted to convert my Charger to a Tremec 5 speed, I figured that this Dart might pay for most of the swap.

With the car on ebay, a bidder emailed asking about rust and underbody condition. I put the car up on the lift and while the underbody was great, I did find that there were some rust bubbles coming through the fairly fresh paint.
I cut out the rust and patched in good metal. A little filler, primer....

Today I painted and clearcoated the repair. I hope to have it relisted for sale soon.

hanks73340 · Dec 6, 2020

Soaked the clips with oil on the heater a/c box for a couple of days and it came apart without any issues.

Only had a little bit of debris. No critter nest luckily.

Now just need to find a radiator shop to pressure test both. If they're bad will have to order new ones.

Just waiting for my DMT kit to show up and some other parts.

themechanic · Dec 6, 2020

hanks73340 said:
Soaked the clips with oil on the heater a/c box for a couple of days and it came apart without any issues.
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Only had a little bit of debris. No critter nest luckily.
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Now just need to find a radiator shop to pressure test both. If they're bad will have to order new ones.
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Just waiting for my DMT kit to show up and some other parts.

Funny how long they went without a cabin air filter to catch all the crap that gets stuck inside the box.

Mopars & Missiles · Dec 8, 2020

For about the last month or so the fuel gauge on the R/T has been intermittently working/not working while out cruising around. It finally quit altogether the last time out. So today, I decided it was time to do a little troubleshooting to find where the issue was.

First was to get the car up in the air..........

Then I attached the decade box to the sender wire at the tank and dialed in 10 ohms..........

Turn the key on and check the results.........

As I suspected, wiring and instruments are fine. The problem is in the tank, either the float is no longer a float, or the sender VR has given up the ghost.

Tomorrow's agenda, open up the tank and check float and sender VR.

dadsbee · Dec 8, 2020

My SBird was a cracked float that sunk. My Bee was the rheostat contact arm lost it's "boing" that I could have fixed by taking it apart, but it had other issues I didn't have time to deal with and just replaced it.

I assume you already have, but did you check the senders "face" for a good ground?

dadsbee · Dec 8, 2020

I broke the "new" Dart...

Mopars & Missiles · Dec 8, 2020

dadsbee said:
I broke the "new" Dart...
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Maybe I missed it and you have already explained this, but I'm curious as to what your mission is with that Dart that you needed to take the drive train out?? It looked pretty nice in your original photos when you first got it.

dadsbee said:
..I assume you already have, but did you check the senders "face" for a good ground?

Yeah, ground is good and has been for the last 17 years on this car. Just started this stuff a month or so ago, so time to look inside.

dadsbee · Dec 8, 2020

If you read the thread I start in the general section, shiny paint don't = a restoration. Leaf spring hangers/bushings, LCA bushings are all OE 52 years old..

Mopars & Missiles · Dec 8, 2020

dadsbee said:
If you read the thread I start in the general section, shiny paint don't = a restoration. Leaf spring hangers/bushings, LCA bushings are all OE 52 years old..
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Yep, I just got done reading your "Its Home" thread to see what your plans were. Didn't see that thread previously. :thumbsup:

70chall440 · Dec 8, 2020

Got my 2 new carports installed and cars moved in

71Beeper · Dec 13, 2020

Put her lower grille assembly in place.

71Beeper · Dec 13, 2020

And put her headlight assemblies in.

71Beeper · Dec 13, 2020

And the hood latch hardware too.

gtx6970 · Dec 13, 2020

Nuttin,
Had house chores to do outside today.

BUT, yesterday we were out just about all day.
Hit a cars and coffee yesterday morning. Then we stopped and had lunch
Then just took some general running around with the wife. Went thru a whole tank of gas. And LOVED it

What did you do to your Mopar today?

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