Funship32
Well-Known Member
Hey Guys,
Nothing big to report but I'm going to just rant for a bit. Admittedly I'm only doing it here as we are brothers in Mopar arms.
Long story long, I purchased a '69 Road Runner back in 2012. Pretty much a plain jane job. Manual everything, nothing special. However it's my 1st B body (only owned A and C bodies before) and I've always wanted one so I was stoked
Now I understand these cars are approaching 50 years old at this point, and in some cases, older depending on your model year. But I swear...whoever put mine together..or should I say whomever worked on 'her' as I call her, over the years has done some of the most Mickey moused, jury rigged, finger f**ked work I've ever seen.
Some of you probably saw some of my earlier posts of welding in driver side floor pan section. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. So far, I have found the following:
There were no locking rods from the door locks to the door latches.
An A body radio installed.
An aftermarket dash speaker was installed which had a HUGE magnet coil on it. Which in turn was fouling up the already less than steller Defost/Heat/Temp cables.
The fuel filter was in backward.
Engine had small block pullys on it...and it's a big block.
About 1/2 the bolts where missing that attach the inner apron to the fenders.
She had '64 side stop hood bumpers on her.
I noticed that fan belt was being dug into by the alt bolt a few years back and upon investigation I found THIS item installed as a 'spacer' behind the alt.
Also had to pull the heads this summer as I had an idle issue I could not resolve. Found one of the heads had a crack in it and that...get this...the valve springs had 100 pounds of seat pressure. And these springs were being used with an aftermarket performance cam!
Tonight I went to put some new rear shocks on her and I found this lovely item in the cross frame:
I suspect the crack was created due to the fact that these bolts were use to hold the upper shocks in place. Sorry for the crappy photo but yes, there are two different length bolts with 2 different types of threads:
I theorize, that since one of the bolts wasn't tightened all the way, the upper shock bolt was moving and flexing around which in turn looks like it was flexing the frame and created the crack as the crack is smack dab in the middle of the frame. Obviously it's not the end of the world as I can and will weld it up.
I swear...right now I just want to just throttle the dim bulbs that worked on 'her'. They didn't even think about doing a job right at the least or just flat *** didn't know WTF they were doing. In any event, she's in good hands now but oy...what a handful....
Thanks for your time.
FS32
Nothing big to report but I'm going to just rant for a bit. Admittedly I'm only doing it here as we are brothers in Mopar arms.
Long story long, I purchased a '69 Road Runner back in 2012. Pretty much a plain jane job. Manual everything, nothing special. However it's my 1st B body (only owned A and C bodies before) and I've always wanted one so I was stoked
Now I understand these cars are approaching 50 years old at this point, and in some cases, older depending on your model year. But I swear...whoever put mine together..or should I say whomever worked on 'her' as I call her, over the years has done some of the most Mickey moused, jury rigged, finger f**ked work I've ever seen.
Some of you probably saw some of my earlier posts of welding in driver side floor pan section. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. So far, I have found the following:
There were no locking rods from the door locks to the door latches.
An A body radio installed.
An aftermarket dash speaker was installed which had a HUGE magnet coil on it. Which in turn was fouling up the already less than steller Defost/Heat/Temp cables.
The fuel filter was in backward.
Engine had small block pullys on it...and it's a big block.
About 1/2 the bolts where missing that attach the inner apron to the fenders.
She had '64 side stop hood bumpers on her.
I noticed that fan belt was being dug into by the alt bolt a few years back and upon investigation I found THIS item installed as a 'spacer' behind the alt.
Also had to pull the heads this summer as I had an idle issue I could not resolve. Found one of the heads had a crack in it and that...get this...the valve springs had 100 pounds of seat pressure. And these springs were being used with an aftermarket performance cam!
Tonight I went to put some new rear shocks on her and I found this lovely item in the cross frame:
I suspect the crack was created due to the fact that these bolts were use to hold the upper shocks in place. Sorry for the crappy photo but yes, there are two different length bolts with 2 different types of threads:
I theorize, that since one of the bolts wasn't tightened all the way, the upper shock bolt was moving and flexing around which in turn looks like it was flexing the frame and created the crack as the crack is smack dab in the middle of the frame. Obviously it's not the end of the world as I can and will weld it up.
I swear...right now I just want to just throttle the dim bulbs that worked on 'her'. They didn't even think about doing a job right at the least or just flat *** didn't know WTF they were doing. In any event, she's in good hands now but oy...what a handful....
Thanks for your time.
FS32