BUILD-OFF CHALLENGE: Barn find with 50k original miles |
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BUILD-OFF CHALLENGE: Barn find with 50k original miles |
Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 12:46 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
I realized that I had wrapped the wiring harness with the wrong width of tape. So I pulled it and redid it with the correct width.
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 12:50 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Got in some new grommets for the headlight and fog light wires.
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 12:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Got the mixing boxes installed
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 12:55 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Put new seals on the long to mixing box hoses and installed them with the re plated hose clamps
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 12:56 AM
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#205
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 12:58 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 01:01 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Time to clean up the carbs
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 01:06 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
The tunnel is the last part of the car needing some love.
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 01:09 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
We pulled out the wiring harness to clean out the tunnel and sort out a few wires that had shorted and melted together.
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 01:13 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
One of the cleaning tools used
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 01:15 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Dremel tool on a wand and lots of wire brushes helped to clean out a lot of the areas
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 01:17 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
As clean as I could get it.
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 01:18 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Rust conversation applicator
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 01:21 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Cleaned up shifter linkage from the tunnel
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 02:15 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Found the other door latch to get cleaned up
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 02:18 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Cleaned up the tail light housings
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 02:20 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Added new seals
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 02:22 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Test fitted some new taillight lenses
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Matty900 |
Jul 23 2017, 12:00 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Found a very small hole through the bottom of the tunnel that needed welding. Easy fix.
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Matty900 |
Jul 25 2017, 08:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,269 Joined: 21-February 15 From: Oregon Member No.: 18,454 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
The carbs cleaned up nicely. There a few thing's that are broken and need to be replaced.
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