What Did You Do To Your Chevelle Today

[mestorod70]

I still take a look every few weeks.
Glad to see you got your car on the road

[chevymaher]

Down to regular car problems. LOL. I took it to my buddy the engine builder. We took a cruise, He was grinning like a cheshire cat. Said it run pretty good for a 307.

On the way home guy caught up to me and warned me i didn't have brake lights. I fooled with that today. It was the emergency flasher relay. and apparently a loose connection.

I remove my foot from my mouth it is fixed for the time being anyway,

So ready to cruise once again when this rain stops

[chevymaher]

Put a overflow/recovery bottle in. That was nice having a full radiator when it cooled off.

[chevymaher]

I put a different clutch arm in. The one it had was not matching the rest of the linkage. I looked it up. Trucks and big impalas. 11 inch heavy duty. 1.5 inch difference in the pivot points.

So I am about to get her out and test. I replaced the motor in the vac pump it held up. It was flooding last time I adjusted the floats. New rear main seal. It seems to not be the Juan Valdez anymore. New rad cap. Put in a catch can. PCV system was increased to 3/4 inch inside diameter.

[chevymaher]

Well for anyone who is passing through. It ate the muncie. LOL. So I am waiting on Midwest muncie to build me one now. Input gear turned blue. Ground up a input to mainshaft bearing and deposited it in the tailshaft .

[chevymaher]

Today I did the beak in oil change on the auto gear muncie clone. It is a good transmission. 2.99 1st and 2.04 2nd 1.34 3rd. It is nice first gear being second now.

It is a rock crusher style and has that whine.

[chevymaher]

I put a new set of coil springs in it. I had coil over shocks and spacers in the drivers side coil spring. And it still bottomed out on big bumps doing 55.

Ole 307 spring was wore out. I used the 5390 moog for the front. Old coil diameter was .6 new ones measured .68 even tho they say they are .656. they did have thick paint on them. Rears were moog also but same as small blocks.

It raised both ends about a inch and a half. Front is alot stiffer now tho It isnt pushing down easily. I dont think the wheels gonna hit the wheel wells anymore. And header clearance doubled.

[chevymaher]

Took her out and drove her today. Went to where I got the motor built. The second hand man is still there finshing what they had out to be done. It is a big family there. Like I am In it if mine broke it be fixed.

But no new stuff. I stood and talked to a guy in there a hour. We knew all the same people and times back to high school.

Troy gonna talk to Jim's daughter in law when she comes. I gonna get a picture of Jim with a car for my garage. Me and Jim were really close and his Daughter in law knows we were.

Anyway I was visiting the car guys and had mine there.