BUILD THREADÂ 1987 Olds 442 Project Build
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Thanks! It was more difficult than I thought it would be. Mostly due to my bad welding.
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Thank you sir!
Thanks. I spend a lot of time making extra work for myself, because it has to be my way. I think I have a problem.
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Back at it. Getting the intake squared away.
Once I get it off the car, I walk it out to the shed where my drill press is. I balance it on an 8x8 post and lock the front runners down with some screw in vice grips. (Don't try this at home....wait, I AM at home!)
I put it on the press to make sure the hole I cut was parallel with the cast one on the passenger side coolant runner.
With the hole drilled I moved on to smoothing out the nasty seams and casting flash on the sides of the carb pads.
That red scotchbrite would have taken forever. I switched up to a 36 grit pad, then up to 80 grit.
Satisfied with my initial smoothing out of the sides, I moved on to installing the sensor bung I got for the driver side runner. I thought I got the right drill bit to have a nice interference fit on the two, but after heating the manifold and freezing the bung it still wouldn't fit. I used a grinding stone to open the hole a little and love tapped the bung into place.
This will allow me to run the cooling fans from a passenger side coolant sensor (with the wiring kit I bought) and run the stock sensor for the Rally Gauges on the drivers side.
With the bung solidly in place, I went to a guy to get it TIG welded in place.
I used 2" and 3" red scotchbrite pads along with a curved file to smooth out the weld and blend it in to the runner.
Still need to prime, sand, prime, sand, paint, but that's all for now.
Hutch
Once I get it off the car, I walk it out to the shed where my drill press is. I balance it on an 8x8 post and lock the front runners down with some screw in vice grips. (Don't try this at home....wait, I AM at home!)
I put it on the press to make sure the hole I cut was parallel with the cast one on the passenger side coolant runner.
With the hole drilled I moved on to smoothing out the nasty seams and casting flash on the sides of the carb pads.
That red scotchbrite would have taken forever. I switched up to a 36 grit pad, then up to 80 grit.
Satisfied with my initial smoothing out of the sides, I moved on to installing the sensor bung I got for the driver side runner. I thought I got the right drill bit to have a nice interference fit on the two, but after heating the manifold and freezing the bung it still wouldn't fit. I used a grinding stone to open the hole a little and love tapped the bung into place.
This will allow me to run the cooling fans from a passenger side coolant sensor (with the wiring kit I bought) and run the stock sensor for the Rally Gauges on the drivers side.
With the bung solidly in place, I went to a guy to get it TIG welded in place.
I used 2" and 3" red scotchbrite pads along with a curved file to smooth out the weld and blend it in to the runner.
Still need to prime, sand, prime, sand, paint, but that's all for now.
Hutch
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