Projects 62 Bel Air Daily Driver Build

Will do, got an adj panhard coming. The d/s rear rubs so as soon as thats on ill pull it out of the shop for aome pics

 

Excellent daily driver, cool cruiser, enjoy!

 

Belairs back up on jack stands to button up the bottom end. Suspensions officially finished, tightened and loctite on everything. Painted the exhaust, fenderwells and brake drums black. Also got the rear centered for good with the y bone and panhard bar adjusted properly

 

Rebuilt the carb. Somethings wrong and im not sure what, kind of a rookie when it comes to carbs. It starts hard unless u throw a little fuel down the carb. Itll run fairly smooth up around 1k rpm and higher but idles rough and wants to die around 700 rpm or lower. Also if you ease on the throttle itll build up rpm pretty smooth. If you stomp on it itll start to die right away. Seems to be starved for fuel. Everything in the carb is working well to my knowledge, any ideas? Any help is appreciated

 

I shot carb cleaner around the carb base and intake manifold checking for vacuum leaks and got nothing so i think thats all good. The idle mixture adj screw on the carb still has no effect while adjusting it. I checked the screw opening and the hole in the base of the carb and everything looks clean and not clogged. Im gonna swap the plugs since its been sitting in storage while i worked on it for the past year and its been fired up repeatedly just to move it around the shop. Coil looks beat to, might swap that. Any other ideas guys ?

 

Pulled the plugs, they look like hell from the hard starts in storage. Compression read right around 120 across all cylinders with a really weak battery. Im gonna tear into the ignition and re check my float level as well

 

Tune it! Check alt too. Everything fresh & it should be driven highway speed to loosen up the old girl.

 

Slammed the only thing that is confusing me is the idle mixture screw has no effect at all. I cant get it to idle below 900 rpm right now tho so maybe once i swap ignition parts everything will smooth out enough to tune it. Acc pump seems to work as fuel is shooting down the carb at all points of throttle. 3 of the plugs had no effect when i pulled the wires off while it was running. The other 3 started to kill the motor when i pulled em so i have an ignition problem for sure. Sound like a coil to you?

 

Peace of mind. Research parts for quality. When the Ign./plugs/wires/coil/cap/points or Pertronix? connections/alt are known good-fresh then its time for that carb. And try not to let the stuff sit too long. Stuff today seems to go away faster that before when they sit still. Humidity. Crappy gasoline. Sub par parts from God knows where. Last night the rebuilt alt was defect out of the box! Went back and had them test the next one right there....junk! Another.......junk! 3 in a row! Switched brands, tested bingo, good. Freakin'-A, today is a struggle.

 

Coil was shot, swapped it out, re checked the points and threw new plugs in and it runs wayyyyy better. Got the idle squared away. Idles at 500rpm in drive and i dialed in the mixture screw so its silky smooth. Barely hear it runnin inside the car. Im still having what i believe is a acc pump issue. If you ease on the throttle or give medium load its fine. But if you stab it hard it falls flat on its face and then will pickup after that. Also has a slight popping sometimes as your building rpm easing on the throttle but its usually super smooth. I havent been able to drive it yet, hopefully tomorrow. Any suggestions? Im taking the carb back off regardless to double check everything

 

Front ends back together. Have a guy coming tomorrow to do the windshield and back glass rubber. Bad news is i had an issue with the accuair ecu so thats on its way to california to get tested and hopefully replaced

 

Windshield and back glass rubber is replaced. Can anyone recommend a good sealer to use ? Ive heard 3m is good stuff

 

It seems like the ecu's are problematic. I've heard it from a few builds.

 

Yea the pin on the ecu for the power wire actually shorted and came out of the ecu and was stuck in the plug. Hopefully they send me a new one and ill be ready to go cruise [emoji41]

 

Yes the 3-M stuff is good

 

Good to hear 59nomad i ordered 2 tubes of the glazing and bedding compound from 3m. I also painted the wiper area under the vent panel black last week to clean it all up a bit

 

Yep, that is what i used after lots of searching on what to go with.
You SB GTG

 

hell yeah... nice 4 door....

 

Took the car out for its first test drive last night. Hoping to have it wet sanded and buffed in the next few days

 

Very cool indeed, there were actually quite a few cool 4 doors in a local show this weekend, its good to see.

 

Wetsanding is so boring

 

Started buffing. These pics are after the first cutting compound so its nowhere near as glossy as it will be when its done. Cant wait. Unfortunately i need to hit the roof with 1500 and 2000 again as there is a few wierd scratches in the roof that wont come out

 

Still buffing. Had the car out n about a few times

 

looks good, the buffing is paying off

 

Been puttin miles on the car all week and daily driving it again. Im gonna take it out to the jalopyrama next week and itll be for sale by early november. Finally have an opportunity to build a 30-31 model a 5 window which is one of my dream cars. Shoot me a message if your interested in the bel air

 

My buddy rob took some sweet pics of the car for me. It was actually pretty dirty when he shot it, turned out good tho. Its goin up for sale very shortly if anyones interested

 

Nice!

 

Well the car is gone fellas. Sold it a few weeks back. Lookin for a 51-53 poncho to daily drive now