Jason's 68 coronet build

[Super Rob]

Oh and we just has our 3rd child. A healthy 6lb 10oz girl. 1 more helper monkey in the shop!

Sweet! Congrats.

 

[jason79]

Was able to get a little shop time in today. Fabricated a car lift bracket and an engine lift bracket. Engine lift bracket is 1/4" plate and a repurposed alternator bracket.

Torque converter and flex plate are here, just need to finish up the roller assembly for the k member and engine and tranny will be installed this week. Probably on church night .

 

[JimKueneman]

Was able to get a little shop time in today. Fabricated a car lift bracket and an engine lift bracket. Engine lift bracket is 1/4" plate and a repurposed alternator bracket.View attachment 370467 View attachment 370468Torque converter and flex plate are here, just need to finish up the roller assembly for the k member and engine and tranny will be installed this week. Probably on church night .

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Damn just when I think I am catching up to you .... Looking good!

 

[jason79]

Damn just when I think I am catching up to you .... Looking good!

Thanks Jim, your car is turning out beautiful!

 

[jason79]

Church night tonight , and it was a good one. We have an engine and tranny in the car for the first time in 15 years!

 

[jason79]

Had my guys give me a hand putting the hood on after we were done working today. Working on installing the front suspension tonight. Getting the new torsion bar boots over the torsion bars has to be one of the hardest things I've done in this restoration . Had to fire up the wood boiler tonight for the first time this season. Haven't turn on the in floor heat in the shop yet, but the wife was getting cold in the house , supposed to get down in the 20s tonight .

On the plus side, the hole in the hood lined up perfect with the air cleaner .

Excuse the spider webs, they are terrible this year.

 

[jason79]

A word of wisdom to anyone installing a new torsion bar crossmember . Install the tranny mount when you weld in the new crossmember. I didn't and the holes were a pain in the *** to line up. I was able to get 3 lined up and bolted in. the 4th is going to require some modification .

 

[jason79]

One more word of wisdom. Installing the engine and tranny from the bottom is definitely the way to go. Piece of cake, easiest engine install I've ever done.

 

[kiwigtx]

One more word of wisdom. Installing the engine and tranny from the bottom is definitely the way to go. Piece of cake, easiest engine install I've ever done.

That's exactly how I did mine 15+ years ago.

(because posts are worthless without pictures.)

 

[jason79]

Wow has it been 2 months already! Finally finished up all my snowmobile projects, so it's time for the car again. Gotta get this thing going for spring! Finished up the disc brake conversion.

Got all the brake lines installed. I picked up the front brake line set from Fine Lines. Very nice product. The rear line I just made my own.

Just need to pull off the master cylinder to bench bleed it.
Now I need to sit down and make a shopping list, as my parts pile is running out...

 

[showard]

Looking great! you are moving right along to fast for me to keep up.

 

[themechanic]

Glad you were able to go back to this. I enjoy reading about your progress. Best of luck getting her ready for the spring.

 

[khryslerkid]

Looking great Jason!

What brand disk brake conversion did you go with, I like the type of caliper and the look.

 

[747mopar]

Man is that a beaut!!! Excellent work.

 

[JimKueneman]

Jason, are you sandbagging by not posting making me think I am getting ahead of you?

 

[moparcurt]

Sweet looking car!!!

 

[jason79]

Jason, are you sandbagging by not posting making me think I am getting ahead of you?

I'm not sand bagging you Jim. You are clearly whipping my ***! I'm back now and ready to get this thing on the road!

 

[jason79]

Here's where we are at. Winter has been Crazy busy at work! We are just finishing up a new house, have 2 other remodels going on, and are starting to dig for the next new house this coming week. I need some more guys. Been looking, but it is hard around here to find someone who wants to work, and doesn't already have a job. If the are looking, they have a criminal record as long as my arm or are just lazy asses. Anyways back to the car. Brakes are done! We have all stop and no go. Engine compartment wiring is 95%, front wiring done except turn signals. Need to finish rear wiring. I gave to move my coil to the inner fender because of a slight interference issue.

I guess it's not that bad unless I want a fuel line, haha.

In the next week or 2 I will be ordering my exhaust system. Think biting the bullet and getting the tti headers. Any thoughts on the rest of the exhaust system? TTI? Flowmaster?
What is everyone running for throttle brackets, throttle cable, and kick down cable? Must fit a demon carb.

 

[jason79]

Will be starting to work on the fuel system also. I have alot of shopping to do. Need a shifter too. Taking the drive shaft to be shortened next week, was originally a small block car.
Couple more pics for your enjoyment.

 

[jason79]

I need to paint the grill also just remembered. Maybe someday this weather will straighten out. Been stuck in the 40s and cloudy, rainy for like the last month. February was in the 70s here.