The Jalopy Journal
@Truck64 That's pretty much the plan. I'm definitely not going to paint it, I think the paint on it would clean up really nice. The only problem...
Exactly. Having a car that you can't buy parts for really taught me that lesson, but I'm glad I kept that mindset.
Oh true, that would probably be a better way to get a good transfer of the teeth profile. Just have to line up the edges, but the radius would be...
I have a breaker on the auxiliary power wire for my trailer plug, because it's a big wire that runs the whole length of the car directly from the...
Just a quick demo, hopefully that will help someone fix a part they don't want to, or just can't buy.
I finished off each tooth with the file. A little tedious, but if you go one at a time you can test it as you go using the teeth in the crank. And...
I used a cutoff wheel to cut to the bottom of the tooth and rough it out, and them sanded the top of the teeth a little closer to their final...
I cut of the excess of the patch, to a little larger than the major radius of the teeth.[ATTACH]
Next I dug through the drill bits and found one whose diameter matched the gullet of the tooth, and drilled out each center punch.[ATTACH]
With the new piece on place I put a center punch mark for each tooth, in approximately the middle of the gullet for each tooth.[ATTACH]
I cut out the area in the old regulator to fit the patch in, and tacked in the new piece, making sure to line up the pattern of the teeth.[ATTACH]
I cut out a piece of some similar thickness steel, clamped it to the bad area, and sprayed some dykem steel blue over it to transfer over the...
So here's the problem area. The rest of the teeth were okay, so I'm just going to fix the ones that were real bad.[ATTACH]
Hopped in my wagon, went to roll the window down and it just went chunk-chunk, and the window didn't move... makes sense after 300+ thousand miles...
Well I pulled the motor in my wagon to rebuilt it, so the van is my daily for the time being... and then my throttle cable broke. Good thing the...
Next up was the clutch. Wasn't much left, and there was a pretty bad racket and vibration when the clutch was in. The transmission was pretty...
Been a bit since I've posted, gonna have an update catching up soon. In the meantime here's a pic of the van doing duty as a yamahauler![ATTACH]...
@pinupwithgun That's bitchin, love the work on the interior. Sent from my SM-A102U using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Speaking of those fuel filters... with driving the van everyday, I was clogging these up about once every other day. I finally dropped the tank to...
Hey thanks @Greg Rogers. I might just be cheap but I've always felt if I can figure it out myself instead of buying some kit I will, and it's more...
With it in decent driving condition, I wanted to get some of the creature comforts working. The wipers were just unplugged, so I put the plug back...
Put a repop glove box in, thanks to @31Dodger for sending it to me. Now I have a place to put all the fuel filters I go through at a rapid...
Been driving the van around, it's doin pretty good. My trip permit expired in November, and I still have no plates, but with the way the DMV is...
I wanted to put in some seatbelts, and while I legally couldve just used lap belts like it had originally, I wanted to run full 3 point shoulder...
Overall I'm pretty happy with the way the brakes worked out. I think if you have the right equipment, then the Scarebird kit is a good way to go....
Instead of a factory distribution block, I just used a wilwood adjustable proportioning valve (because it was cheaper and easier to get to be...
The fronts are all buttoned up, and the rears are much simpler. I just rebuilt the drums and replaced the LH studs with right handers to be the...
The next steps are all easy bolt on stuff. The Scarebird adapter plates replace the original drum backing plates, and fit great. The calipers are...
With the machine work done on the hubs I could start reassembling them. I made a bearing race installer (a chunk of round bar turned to fit inside...
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