What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2018]

[Local Hero]

FFS! Must be the full moon. Took the kid out in the hot rod- got some pizza, hit the cruise in at Home Depot, went to the ice cream stand, stopped by my uncle's place, then I noticed that the temp gauge is pegged. I see the belt is loose, call my uncle for tools, then find the damned broken pulley. Of course, AAA sends me an Indian (yeah, right, I smell Taliban) tow truck driver that barely speaks English. View attachment 94640View attachment 94641View attachment 94642

Ooohhh... Good Luck with getting that back together,

 

[fleming442]

Ooohhh... Good Luck with getting that back together,

It's "just" a broken water pump pulley.....
I was looking at yesterday, and it looks like the threads pulled on one of the bolts. I may just order a pump too.

 

[Bonnewagon]

That '80 Trans Am I saved from a watery death (doing the unstuck) had a nasty oil leak at the filter housing. The morons who swapped in the 400 must have banged the idiot light sending unit against something and cracked it. So I got it off and put a 1/8" npt nipple and an elbow there so I could use the correct sending unit for gauges. But the n-mbn-ts put headers on this motor and of course there is no room to work. It took me all day to screw in that fitting with an expandable pliers which I dropped about a hundred times. 95 degrees in the shade didn't help either. But now the oil leak is fixed and I was able to spend some quality time adjusting the timing and carburetor. I think the timing chain is severely stretched as the vacuum is around 15"-17" at idle no matter what I do. Still some lifter tapping but getting a little better each time it runs.

 

[axisg]

I am going to look at my heap of a Fjord Bucket truck today. Been in the shop for a week now trying first to get the plug out and now they are going to pull the head. The "current" theory is that it spit a plug in a past life and got helicoiled wrong so the plug and helicoil are stuck in the cyl but for the life of me and 3x techs now we cannot get it to thread back out.

 

[ItsnotaGN]

Someone asked for pictures of this, but I can't remember which thread it was in, so I'm sticking it here. 1963 Olds Dynamic 88, 394, stupid low- documented miles. I had a build thread on ROP years ago, but that's gone. I drove it around for a few years before I had the motor built in the 67. It is storing its engine and rear for a gasser project that will probably never happen.
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It was I who asked, thanks for the pictures. Mine was blue on blue had the same hubcaps, but had the green 280 hp motor. It got me kicked out of my highschool parking lot for doing burnouts.

 

[axisg]

Today on the ongoing saga of "all things Fjord !" my tech appears to have figured out the problem. Those with a sharp eye ( AKA Stevie Wonder ) may notice as well. So yeah looks like that spark plug thread was helicoiled and it got sucked into the cyl, smashed and thus would not thread back out. The electrode was missing from the bottom of the plug and the helicoil needed to be torched off to pull it back out. Hope to get word back from the machine shop this morning to see if they can save the head or not. Piston has a little nick in it that I am pretending not to be concerned with.

 

[Clone TIE Pilot]

Bought a police trunk pack for my CVPI. Basically it is a bed liner tray for the trunk. Plus it has kevlar armor to protect the gas tank in rear end impacts.

 

[axisg]

The machine shop said "technically" they could fix the old one but it would be cheaper to find another used one for them to check over. So here I search. I found a pair that I am going to look at tomorrow 🙂

 

[Local Hero]

Tweaked and installed the new plates on my Cougar.

 

[Wraith]

I had to do front and rear wheel bearings before my annual trip up to Pennsylvania, got a new tool, bearing remover/installer and it went smooth.