Broke my 7UP Pop Machine today....

[moparsaver]

Glad to see the birds all back together and ready for an adventure!

Wile E. sure looks anxious!

 

[dadsbee]

More shop cleaning all day, got a spot for the Formula S cleaned out, the Swinger fired right up on 3 cranks, after 5 months down, and the Bird is in the air so I can do the shifter linkage adjustment tomorrow.

 

[Chargerjase]

Beautiful job as always Wayne. I love the attention to detail you provide on all of your cars clean ups. Thanks for sharing and enjoy driving that stunning car.

 

[dadsbee]

It's got a wing, it gets airplane parts. Sloppy existing linkage tossed and made a precision one from an AN throttle/ governor rod end, a threaded rod end tube and a section of OE linkage.

Inventory now one less...

Don't think it will leave me short!

Length figured out, linkage cut and ground down enough so it slid into the rod end.

Welded together and cleaned up. Then gave it a quick shot of BBQ paint after this shot, then lunch.

Shifter lever end installed.

Transmission end with all slop removed. Had to re and re twice to get the length perfect. Starts in park and neutral and goes into each gear position perfectly. Most importantly it locks the transmission into park.

Time for a test drive. Need to see if 2 days of rain washed the streets in the am, then it's on... I hope.

 

[GTXDAN]

I've been working on my 70 GTX and noticed that the throttle rod where it connects to the trans has no clip/cotter pin. It's just like your car with console shifter. Can you tell me what goes on there. It has no hole for a cotter pin.

 

[dadsbee]

I've been working on my 70 GTX and noticed that the throttle rod where it connects to the trans has no clip/cotter pin. It's just like your car with console shifter. Can you tell me what goes on there. It has no hole for a cotter pin.

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I suspect the clip or cotter that was in there broke off and the remains are in the hole!

Some day on mine I need to put the lock out linkages back. For now I just have the one attached to the column lever jammed into the frame rail to hold it where I can get the key out.

 

[GTXDAN]

I took it off and there is no hole, so I'm thinking there must be some kind of clip. The SM doesn't show or say anything about the end that connects to the trans.

 

[Photon440]

Perhaps it had some sort of flat spring clip like a throttle rod?

 

[dadsbee]

Almost forgot to adjust the headlight bucket up stops.

 

[khryslerkid]

Cool tail pipe tips! Should keep people from following you too close.

 

[dadsbee]

Cool tail pipe tips! Should keep people from following you too close.

5" SCAT hose, fits the oval tips perfectly with a little squashing to shape. Glad I grabbed everything lying around when we closed up the plastics plant. It's off of our big desiccant dryers.

 

[Geetex]

When are you planning on taking it out for a shakedown run? In the last few outside pictures that you posted, it looks like your roads are clean.

 

[dadsbee]

When are you planning on taking it out for a shakedown run? In the last few outside pictures that you posted, it looks like your roads are clean.

Not going anywhere until I can get some protectant on the decals and put some wax back on the areas I dewaxed to put on same. Streets still haven't been swept around here, but the rain we keep getting is cleaning them up. I did have the Swinger into town last week. I'm in no hurry to get this one dirty, living on a gravel road.

 

[funknut]

Car looks amazing. It's great to see it all back together. You do beautiful work.

 

[dadsbee]

Pulled her out in the sunshine to bake the decals and of course it immediately clouded over and started raining so I got to wipe up water drops instead.

 

[Geetex]

Looks great. How did it rain with a sky like that? Murphy's law.

 

[dadsbee]

Looks great. How did it rain with a sky like that? Murphy's law.

See that roof in picture #2. I was preparing to spray PAR III on the runway as well, so that went out the window as well.

 

[Geetex]

See that roof in picture #2. I was preparing to spray PAR III on the runway as well, so that went out the window as well.

Sorry the weather fell apart on you. What's PAR III, an herbicide? I know nothing about flying, let alone prepping a runway.

 

[dadsbee]

Sorry the weather fell apart on you. What's PAR III, an herbicide? I know nothing about flying, let alone prepping a runway.

Weed killer that golf courses use.

 

[RT68440]

Looks great. Like it never happened!