This weekend's bg project was putting on the stock exhaust manifolds and complete new exhaust system from Accurate. Although the manifolds are not the originals, they will suffice until I find a date correct set.
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In the engine compartment, the old plug wires were replaced with a vintage set of 1983 Mopar orange wires along with the factory wire brackets. I did locate a hood release lever, put that on and removed the inside hood release cable that the original owner had installed right after he bought it. I sent the radiator out to a local shop to be flushed and pressure tested, but a leak was found, so I just sent that out to the experts at Glen-Ray. Unfortunately, they told me that it could take up to two months to get it back.
The original 52 year old coolant hoses were junk & the heater hoses went on and I changed the dual pulley alternator with a more correctly date coded single pully alternator that I had in stock. A non-working emergency flasher had to be changed and corrosion had to be cleaned out of the left side fender turn signal to get that working. Everything electrical in the car is working as it should.
In spite of how nice it looked on the surface, this car was in need of a good amount of TLC and because it's been sitting for so long, that's not surprising. Although I wasn't expecting the brake & radiator problems, it hasn't been a bad project for me to tinker with.
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