426 street wedge

[Dave L]

Hello Dave,Happy birthday! The sample legendary sent me is a little off it seems to be a little more grainy then my original.We will call and see what option I have,also need to order the instument,heater,radio bezels. I"ll get into that next week too.Thanks for following. Dave L

 

[snakeyes]

thanks Dave L ,wasn't sure if you were using the one in Ohio ,good to no of another one :headbang: thanks

 

[Dave L]

Hello All,I have been moving along on the coronet.I have been going to Mccellans body shop on a daily basis sanding and removing the K member.The K member is in my garage now and is being fited for PST power Disc brakes and tubular A arms.Lots more block sanding ahead my poor elbow.Keep restoring. Dave L

 

[KENTON]

Good work

 

[64BEL]

Keep up the good work, Dave!

 

[5.7 hemi]

Dave L, I got your h/l bezels stripped yesterday. I found some boo boo's, but nothing major. I will get the grille straightened and stripped today in between the "honey do's". Also will get some pics on here for ya.

 

[Dave L]

Hello Zack,I'm a lucky person to find so much experience and knowlege on this site.Thanks FBBO.It has helped me through my build.The old coronet will look good with a shinny looking grill.Keep restoring. Dave L

 

[5.7 hemi]

I forgot to tell ya that the pass. side h/l bezel was pitted really bad after I got the anodizing off.....no biggie, I swapped it with one from my stash. By the time I would get the pits out, it would be too thin in a lot of area's, therefore too weak in my opinion to use.

 

[moparsteve636]

DaveL P.M.sent

 

[Dave L]

Hello All,Looks like Randy McCellan and Don Patton have finish up there body work .The car is over at the paint booth for Larry Laferty to do a little edging.

 

[62 Dart Convertible]

Hi Dave

I thought everybody uses SMS for interior fabrics for these early Mopars?

Body and paint certainly is a major milestone. It's looking great, keep up the great work!!

 

[2059]

just picked up on your build Dave. Outstanding work!!! will follow this one to completion.

 

[5.7 hemi]

Dave, I'm masking off one h/l bezel and should get it painted tomorrow. I'll take some pics and post them here for ya to look at.

 

[Dave L]

Hello All,I painted some splash panels. I will be puting the 426 .030 stroker together this week,the pistons are on there way and so are pictures of the build.Paul Rodland will do the balancing then it comes home for assembly.

 

[5.7 hemi]

H/L bezel

Here ya go Dave, I just finished this. Hell, it's still a tad wet, but it's all done and I'll start the other one later today. I have a 3rd pic, but it's to big for this site.....urghhhh!!!

 

[2059]

Looks great!!! kind of looks like a meat locker in your garage

Hello All,I painted some splash panels. I will be puting the 426 .030 stroker together this week,the pistons are on there way and so are pictures of the build.Paul Rodland will do the balancing then it comes home for assembly.View attachment 177093View attachment 177094View attachment 177095

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great work Zack!! as always...

Here ya go Dave, I just finished this. Hell, it's still a tad wet, but it's all done and I'll start the other one later today. I have a 3rd pic, but it's to big for this site.....urghhhh!!!

 

[Dave L]

Hello All, The coronet grill looks brand new great work Zack. I just want to say a few words on the hemi 18 spline I had for sale. I had sold the trans to Jamie Passon but decieded to use it in the coronet.I'm sure glad I didn't sell it to anyone.I took it apart and found the main shaft collar between 2nd and third gear was broke.I decided to call a friend Bill Overcash to see if he had any parts for my trans.He had a main shaft leaning in his garage for years full of gears by the time I left Bills house he had box full of parts for my trans.I call Jamie for other parts I needed second gear,shifting hub sycronizers, struts,and rebuild kit.The shifting hub somehow gulded into second gear.Jamie was able sell me all the parts I needed for the rebuild.As for the parts I got from Bill in his box of goodies was a shifting hub.Lucky for me the main shafts for a Hemi trans are the same as 23 spline so that helped.I got the trans together and I'm going to use it.We have a local fab-machine shop here and a friend of mine also Tommy Himes. He did the machine work for the larger bearing retainer.Bruce Dunlap stoped and helped me lift it out of the way I want to say I should have looked more closely at that trans when I was trying to sell it.Lucky no one bought it and got riped.Dave L

 

[5.7 hemi]

Thanks for the compliments guys. I had the other bezel all buffed, and noticed "tiny little black dots" that didn't show up during the sanding. So off to sanding it again and this time "no black dots"....YEAH!!! So I'm still polishing and should finish tomorrow.

I was looking for "Rocky" in the pic above, lol!!!

 

[5.7 hemi]

Finished H/L Bezels

Bezels are done!!!

 

[Dave L]

Wow on the bezels.painted some more parts in meat locker and a little work on the lower control arms.