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What did you do to your Mopar today?

I bought 2 of these on Amazon for $13.00. They are 4 inches square and fold up. I figure I can mount one to the inside front wall of the console, so I can use it when the armrest lid is open.

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The console has a recess at the front, so I had to make up a spacer to screw the cup holder to. It fit right in, but I only had one small piece of two sided tape, so I will have to buy some more or maybe some velcro to hold it in place better.

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More Dart stuff.

Paint in the areas needed before the fenders go on. Cleaned and painted the inner fender area. Test fitted the LD4B intake.

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Finished my cup holder install today. I bought some high strength adhesive velcro and wrapped the wood with black Gorilla tape rather than painting it. Should be solid and I can leave it open and it still clears the latch assembly.

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Drove it around for errands, had a run in with a trifive chevy revving on me and then taking off, I mildly gave it the beans but he walked away effortlessly (A stock Tercel would walk me to be fair) and then he started doing jerky stuff in traffic so I was glad for the space from him.
Then wanted to adjust the alt belt and maybe remove the heater box but the neighbor walked over and was hinting at going for a ride so I only did the belt and we did a 50 mile round trip to Soledad.
I always forget to take a pic of this stuff.
 
Installed my TTI downpipes, now I’ve just got to tie them into my existing exhaust, completing my off season engine compartment refresh.
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Put rear pads on the Grand Cherokee.

Rebuilt the front driveshaft for my ram

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And pulled the "periscope" third brake light off my Wrangler

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Next, replace the front u joints in the wrangler. Clunking BAD in 4wd. Seems to be a theme this week...glad the press is working!
 
My cylinder head guy and I went to drop the block off for final honing and clean up. The two sleeves came out great, at the first shop.

So, Bob and I went to Moran Motorsports. It was the first time Mike Moran had seen a Ritter block. Bob and him conducted the talking with what type of honing, size, etc.... We all concluded that the block needed a bunch of oil-return holes added. The upper is "divorced" from the bottom end. I told the original builder it needed attention at the beginning of the build. It wasn't addressed....and cost me a very expensive engine. So, when it comes back to Modern Cylinder Head, we'll add return holes in the proper places. We saw a HUGE dollar engine, that Mike had to show us, that needed oil return abilities[holes], similar to what the Ritter will get.
His shop is amazing. Huge, O.R. clean, and probably an easy million+ dollars in engines there for work or to be built. He builds engines that cost more than my cars. I think he has two dyno cells, and a hub-dyno. His tractor/trailer setup is in one end of the building. I'm blown away at the whole setup. He also has an enviable rep and history in drag-racing.

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Made a new charging port/panel for the Missile. The old one had welding-type lugs. Cool 20 years ago, but in dire need of an update and compatible with the setup on Krusty.
I'll post a couple pics when finished. Same location, but new and simple setup.

Old setup in back-up light....

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Well I finally solved the biggest most annoying squeak the Coronet has by removing the heater box. If I had a passenger with me I would have them push it with their foot to stop the squeak on bumpier sections. Next I will tidy up my wiring a bit and put my budget sound deadener on the firewall. One day I will get aftermarket HVAC and thats when I will put full effort into tidy wiring.

Will probably put pics like this up in a WIW post later today.
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