BUILD THREAD A LIGHTLY toasted 1979 Buick Turbo Century

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I have a full day scheduled for tomorrow on the Century. I want to get the engine pulled and get the thing torn apart for inspection. Tuesday is salvage yard day and will try to score a LF fender and both inner fenders. Wednesday the body will get lifted off the chassis. I need to get the V6 engine chassis mounts off and inspect the steel fuel/vapor lines. The V6 fuel line is on the opposite side of chassis from small Chevy on Monte SS chassis. I would like to flush the lines and reuse them. I still have to remove the driveshaft, speedo cable, and trans mount to get the engine and trans out. I cut off the cat to get the down pipe off today and will clamp on a used Flowmaster so it won't be fully open. I still can't believe the exhaust bolts got removed without breaking. I'm very much enjoying this dirty work and feel like I'm already behind at least 4-5 hours. I took too much time taking all the parts off the engine and cataloging everything. All bolts are tagged and bagged. I even drew pictures with bolt locations with lengths. I'm short on storage space in my phone so I could not take pics.
 
got caught up on some of the videos this morning, had to watch everything on my phone due to my computer won't play alot of the you-tube and facebook videos... you got a great start going, and I'm hoping everything goes according to plan without too many suprises. keeping an eye on this build, and now subscribed to your you-tube posts!
 
Up at 6:30 to get started. Got to get hopped up on an energy drink. I will have the engine apart today


Cool car and I can't wait to see the final result. The video entertainment is great. Thanks for spending the time and sharing your project.
 
got caught up on some of the videos this morning, had to watch everything on my phone due to my computer won't play alot of the you-tube and facebook videos...!

Been watching them all along on the smart TV...I don't know how people watch stuff on a phone...it's so small.Kinda glad the wife and kids talked me into it when the crt tv died a couple years ago
 
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Just watched today's installment....bummer

I'd bet there are people here that could hook you up with stuff like the cam/lifters...you could continue with gutting interior and frame swap while the block is tanked.

Hate to see you stop now
 
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