Technical What are you working on?

Getting propane tanks filled so I can get garage up to working temp. I might get it warm enough by Feb lol
Dan

 

Got the pained grill shell installed. Just ding some general clean up, polishing the wheels, and making sure the battery is charged up, getting ready for GNRS later this week.

 

Looking good very good!
Dan

 

Looks great, have a good time.

 

I have been tinkering with the Tiger engine . Trying to locate correct era parts for the look , internals all modern stuff , as in roller cam and such . Clearing snow for the last 3 days

 

Thanks guys. Mike it should be a blast. I'll be there for set up day on Thursday and I have a 3 day p*** to drive in and be part of the show. I'll take lot's of pics!

 

Working on some small welding art entries for an compe***ion at a custom Invitational we are going to in March.

Fingers crossed.

 

been working on the front floors rockers fire wall and cowl support of the 36 phaeton way more solid than before

 

Nice, Tim! It has to be sturdy when you stomp the gas.

 

Removing stuff that somehow got into the cab. On to sorting. Much better. Oh ****, there more on the other side But at least when housekeeping is done there’s a resting place for the cab again.

 

Down to the last three stuck valve guides....

 

Finished my mallory double life today polished it ,new points and special thanks to Tubman for supplying the new condensers we had a heck of a time getting them hear but everything worked out in the end the distributor is going on my olds rocket. 0k

 

still working on the floor of my 36 not perfect but feeling good about it.next step bolting it to the frame

 

Looks like its coming along well Tim

 

Taking apart another 327. Because I can. Kinda rusty. Oh well.

 

^^^^* Just keeping the crankshaft?

 

I don't know yet. Looks like it might need two sleeves, might not be worth messing with.

 

I took advantage of 76-degree Monday and pulled the AOD to replace the seal. I think I got it, thanks to Saltflats and others who suggested punching out the old seal instead of pulling the pump. I got the trans married to the engine, tightened the torque converter nuts to the flex plate, getting ready to finish ***embly when the next warm(ish) day rolls around. Several things I've noticed during this annoying little exercise: The trans jack has raised the engine/transmission a little higher than it sits at stock height and the fan is just touching the bottom of the radiator, so I'll have to watch that closely once I lower the trans jack to re-install the trans crossmember; I noticed that the hose connecting the vacuum brake booster has come loose from the tube coming off the back of the intake, which explains why my power brakes weren't powering up; in using the starter to turn the engine so I could mesh the flex plate and torque converter studs I noticed that the carburetor was leaking at the transfer tubes so I've ordered new O-rings to stop the leak; in pulling down the temporary exhaust plumbing to remove the transmission, I noticed that a hose between the trans cooler and the cooler in the lower tank of the radiator was slightly burnt from touching the hot pipe, so re-routed that; while under the engine/transmission I noticed that oil was weeping from the drain plug on the oil pan. I'll see if NAPA has a new one. Wrapping the old one with Teflon tape wasn't getting it.
If once I get this back together the transmission doesn't leak, I should be well on my way to big progress on other aspects of this project. If it still leaks, I'm back to pulling it down, then taking it to a transmission guy I can rely on and paying him to solve the issue.

 

Fitting up some parts , to determine what’s going to work and whats not

 

Working on welding some bungs on the headers for our Chrysler 354 Hemi,

 

@squirrel - That looks like a forged crank, good stuff! Small or large journal?

 

^^ Damper shows it's small journal. I would like it. JW

 

It's a 1963 engine, steel crank small journal 327.

 

Finally putting a 6 point roll bar in the V8 . The yellow bar is from the 300 piece header modeling kit. Love that tool !!!

 

Ay, yo, Anthony! Cool push****on.

 

Got this off a 1937 ford truck sitting in a ditch; so I could try and save it and see how they work. It was very rusty but after a few weeks, I got it all working.