Forgot about this thread....
The car drives, after some valuable help from Ian and Eric (Hi Performance Auto). The wiring came me a headache for a few days, as expected. I managed to learn something in the process, so that's good.
Had this pretty distributor set aside for the car:
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We couldn't get spark and couldn't figure out why. Turns out the cap wasn't making contact with the rotor. Swapped out a nasty looking distributor and fired up the car a couple of weeks ago.
In the meantime, I buttoned up the undercarriage and made sure the car was road-worthy.
3M undercoating, it took 4 bottles to do the 4 wheel wells. Undercarriage stays in paint.
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I didn't pay attention to the fact that the flange on my axle wasn't compatible with the flange on the driveshaft.
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The early cars had U-bolts to hold the U-joints directly onto the flange. Rather than use some allthread and have an unreliable set up, Ian and Eric sent me the correct companion flange from a 64+ model.
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The car drives, after some valuable help from Ian and Eric (Hi Performance Auto). The wiring came me a headache for a few days, as expected. I managed to learn something in the process, so that's good.
Had this pretty distributor set aside for the car:
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We couldn't get spark and couldn't figure out why. Turns out the cap wasn't making contact with the rotor. Swapped out a nasty looking distributor and fired up the car a couple of weeks ago.
In the meantime, I buttoned up the undercarriage and made sure the car was road-worthy.
3M undercoating, it took 4 bottles to do the 4 wheel wells. Undercarriage stays in paint.
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I didn't pay attention to the fact that the flange on my axle wasn't compatible with the flange on the driveshaft.
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The early cars had U-bolts to hold the U-joints directly onto the flange. Rather than use some allthread and have an unreliable set up, Ian and Eric sent me the correct companion flange from a 64+ model.
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