What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2022]

[Texas82GP]

Yo, Texas82GP, you anywhere near that flooding that's being shown on our Weather Channel as happening in Texas??

Nah, didn't even rain here today. I'm pretty sure you're seeing flooding up in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Some areas in Dallas have seen 11"-13" of rain today. There is a possibility of 2"-4" of rain in the Houston area overnight, particularly north of I-10. Thanks for thinking of us.

 

[Supercharged111]

Got most of the rest buttoned up today, which involves more than putting it back the way it was. Let's start with repairing this mount I have no after pics of.

Zapped it from both sides and ground it back flat. I have not determined a root cause though, so hopefully it doesn't happen again. Next I got to go out of my way to clearance this header tube for the steering shaft.

You can see where I marked its slope, and the witness mark told me exactly where to smash a 1/2" ratchet extension down to make some room.

Nailed it. Sometimes mid corner I'd feel resistance in the steering from the engine rolling over and interfering with the steering shaft. Those days should be behind me, yet another while I'm in there fix. Next fix, let's talk O2 sensors. I'd repinned the PCM eons ago to take the rear O2s as fronts. I always had a slow switching code, and check out how rich they look compared to the fronts I pulled when I did the longtubes.

The siliconed plugs in the middle belong to the OE front O2 sensors. They cleaned up decently.

I repinned them per my 8 year old instructions, we'll see how that goes. This will necessitate O2 extensions, a meager expense I'd attempted to spare years ago. My gut tells me this won't make a difference, but we'll see. The logic with running rears as fronts was that they had more robust heaters, relevant when the headers put the primary O2s much farther back. So tomorrow I aspire to patch up a few more things and at least go for a start. Unlikely to come off the stands until the O2 extensions arrive.

 

[78Delta88]

Still waiting on carb. 2nd blocking done, reshot in primer. Headlights and SS grill came in. Hopefully block again tomorrow, all black primer and prep for color.

 

[mclellan83]

I love those years. Post pics if you have them

I have some more somewhere but for the life of me can't find them at the moment

 

[Tomeal]

I have some more somewhere but for the life of me can't find them at the moment
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Looks really nice!

 

[scoti]

Looks really nice!

Agreed!
VERY nice.

 

[Clutch]

So you might be ahead of me in who's on the road first. If the mail delivers the check tomorrow I'll be rolling on Wednesday.

Your going to beat me to it I have to wait for the tuner. Last I heard he may not get to me until the weekend.

I have some more somewhere but for the life of me can't find them at the moment
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I had a 69 in highschool

 

[Built6spdMCSS]

Got most of the rest buttoned up today, which involves more than putting it back the way it was. Let's start with repairing this mount I have no after pics of.

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Zapped it from both sides and ground it back flat. I have not determined a root cause though, so hopefully it doesn't happen again. Next I got to go out of my way to clearance this header tube for the steering shaft.

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You can see where I marked its slope, and the witness mark told me exactly where to smash a 1/2" ratchet extension down to make some room.

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Nailed it. Sometimes mid corner I'd feel resistance in the steering from the engine rolling over and interfering with the steering shaft. Those days should be behind me, yet another while I'm in there fix. Next fix, let's talk O2 sensors. I'd repinned the PCM eons ago to take the rear O2s as fronts. I always had a slow switching code, and check out how rich they look compared to the fronts I pulled when I did the longtubes.

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The siliconed plugs in the middle belong to the OE front O2 sensors. They cleaned up decently.

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I repinned them per my 8 year old instructions, we'll see how that goes. This will necessitate O2 extensions, a meager expense I'd attempted to spare years ago. My gut tells me this won't make a difference, but we'll see. The logic with running rears as fronts was that they had more robust heaters, relevant when the headers put the primary O2s much farther back. So tomorrow I aspire to patch up a few more things and at least go for a start. Unlikely to come off the stands until the O2 extensions arrive.

That mount looks like that bracket for the Hpipe, it stretched?

When I did my TSP Stainless Long Tubes I managed to relocate the front O2 Connectors far enough back along the Bell Housing to reach both Sensors on each side. It's tight but the wires are not taught, they are good. Rear Connectors I made plugs for similar to what you did, and turned them off in the tune.

The Steering Shaft I ran into the same, upon install I turned it down on the lathe to help but had slight rubbing on a right turn. When I had the Headers out of the car the last time for the Speed Bleeder install, I clearanced them with my air hammer. Nice .250" gap now, no issues. 🙂

Pic here was the before..

 

[joesregalproject]

My tractor has been leaking oil from the differential for a year or so, I've been topping it off but lately the leak is worse, it's dripping a pint or more a week just sitting.

The axles seals are the culprit, the design of this rear axle was too complex for it's own good and there are a lot of potential leak points. The pillow bearing blocks are NLA so I so I did some research online and someone figured out the seal size and got a P/N for them. I bought the seals last year and I've been too lazy to install them until now. I'm fed up with constantly filling it up so I tore it apart today.

I swapped the seals out and greased the outer bearing blocks since they don't sit in oil and they don't have a zerk. Put it back together with One Minute Gasket on the cover. And when I filled it up... it leaked.

I don't actually keep count, but I know I've used one minute gasket probably in the hundreds of times. It has never leaked. So I assumed this was something I did. Took the cover back off and I think I put the RTV a bit too close to the inside edge of the cover and it never sealed. Can't blame the product for user error.

Cleaned the flanges up, put it back together, went heavy with the RTV this time and so far so good.

 

[ck80]

My tractor has been leaking oil from the differential for a year or so, I've been topping it off but lately the leak is worse, it's dripping a pint or more a week just sitting.

The axles seals are the culprit, the design of this rear axle was too complex for it's own good and there are a lot of potential leak points. The pillow bearing blocks are NLA so I so I did some research online and someone figured out the seal size and got a P/N for them. I bought the seals last year and I've been too lazy to install them until now. I'm fed up with constantly filling it up so I tore it apart today.
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I swapped the seals out and greased the outer bearing blocks since they don't sit in oil and they don't have a zerk. Put it back together with One Minute Gasket on the cover. And when I filled it up... it leaked.
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I don't actually keep count, but I know I've used one minute gasket probably in the hundreds of times. It has never leaked. So I assumed this was something I did. Took the cover back off and I think I put the RTV a bit too close to the inside edge of the cover and it never sealed. Can't blame the product for user error.

Cleaned the flanges up, put it back together, went heavy with the RTV this time and so far so good.
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That's one of the cleanest looking rear frames on a tractor I can remember that wasn't new on a sales floor. Must get weekly washes