Owner built on a budget;

[Hray]

461 hours, 52 days down, 38 to go.


Went to junk yard and got new power steering pulley, discovered ours was bent. also got some heater hose wire type clamps, and got a remote radiator resevour that feeds water thru the heater hoses.

went to vintage ford and picked up a distributor vacum line.

put on new painted oil filter that matches the engine color.


we aligned all the cotter pin holes in suspension to run parrellel to the chassis, and made sure each cotter pin was facing the same direction and bent exactly the same on both sides.
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we installed a wire loom clamp to hold the spark plug wires on the motor mount,
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here is passenger side of plug wires with motor mount clamps, and the ground strap from bell housing to frame.

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here is a picture of the coil mounted on the bell housing next to the starter solenoid. also note the shining spark plug wire, we painted clear coat on them just before reattaching the exhaust

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here is a picture of the sway bar connections. I had to cut threads on a longer bolt to hold the upper cushions tight. see the shining rubber components, also clear coated.

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here is a picture of the new little horns. horns came from american pastimes for 45$.
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Here is a distance shot on passenger side, we put the exhaust back on so we can set timing and other stuff with it running, maybe tomorrow will be fire it up day.

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Here is the drivers side at the end of today, did not get side pipe on yet,

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We did have one minor setback today, I went to put on side pipe and it was too short to reach the rear bolt bracket hole, then discovered we enterchanged the headers, switched them around and all was good again.