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Updating the Super Street Mopar

Today I ran the two pieces through the English wheel first for a little pre stretch of the target areas then ran them through the bead roller.

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A bit of a deviation on the car. I'm going on the Power Tour West next month with my friend Darren. We were going to take his 46 Ford truck, but there are too many issues to get it ready so I offered up the wagon as backup. Getting the 67 serviced and checked before we roll. Up in the air for inspection and oil change. I got a pair of pullies from Vanessa at 5 Pointsparts in Oregon. Great gal to work with btw for finding goodies. Anyway, the pullies are getting switched out as the two on there under drive the water pump by a fairly large amount. Crank is 5.25", pump is 6.75". A 1.5" difference. That should help with the cooling! Blasted them a couple days ago, hit them with Ospho then paint once they were dry. Got the shroud out, fan/clutch etc. Started bolting the crank pulley down, got 5 bolts in but not the 6th. Then I remembered about the non symmetrical bolt pattern. So stopped for the day and I'll resume tomorrow.

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Spent some time on the 65 over the last few days. The front fill piece is going to work fine. I pulled the tank nest out and put the tank in it. From there I plotted out where the fuel line/vent line/wiring needed to be on the front wall. Once that was marked, I marked out 4 additional spots where I needed to cut holes. The additional holes will be to help air circulate through the area for any fumes from weeping seals. Cut those 5 holes, deburred them, then used my 1.5" dimple die tool on them. I still need to cut a hole in the rear wall of the nest for the fill hose but I'm waiting on that one till I get the fill neck and hose. Need those to plot where that hole needs to be.

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ckessel said:
Today I ran the two pieces through the English wheel first for a little pre stretch of the target areas then ran them through the bead roller.
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You sure have a lot of tools.
 
ckessel said:
A bit of a deviation on the car. I'm going on the Power Tour West next month with my friend Darren. We were going to take his 46 Ford truck, but there are too many issues to get it ready so I offered up the wagon as backup. Getting the 67 serviced and checked before we roll. Up in the air for inspection and oil change. I got a pair of pullies from Vanessa at 5 Pointsparts in Oregon. Great gal to work with btw for finding goodies. Anyway, the pullies are getting switched out as the two on there under drive the water pump by a fairly large amount. Crank is 5.25", pump is 6.75". A 1.5" difference. That should help with the cooling! Blasted them a couple days ago, hit them with Ospho then paint once they were dry. Got the shroud out, fan/clutch etc. Started bolting the crank pulley down, got 5 bolts in but not the 6th. Then I remembered about the non symmetrical bolt pattern. So stopped for the day and I'll resume tomorrow.

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So.. i was curious about the aluminum pulley and the mechanical fan.. I have a CVF alum pulley on mine and it's so thick that there is like barely a nub for the fan clutch to center on, which eats at me, was yours pretty much the same way? I just picture the fan going "untrue" and taking out the radiator and other fun bits...
 
For you Greg, yes I have a lot of tools/equipment in my garage. But of course there are more I would love to have. On that stuff, I have access to them and do trades for usage. And many times I improvise with what I have available. Like that piece of EMT.
Icetech, there was hardly anything sticking out of that pulley to align the fan/clutch. There was just a bare minimum. All better now.
 
ckessel said:
For you Greg, yes I have a lot of tools/equipment in my garage. But of course there are more I would love to have. On that stuff, I have access to them and do trades for usage. And many times I improvise with what I have available. Like that piece of EMT.
Icetech, there was hardly anything sticking out of that pulley to align the fan/clutch. There was just a bare minimum. All better now.
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Cool, just glad to see it worked ok.. makes me feel better. Would still prefer a steel one and peace of mind though :)
 
Along with the lack of alignment for the fan/clutch unit, there was the 22% reduction in pump/fan speed due to the size differences of the two pullies. Good to go now.
 
My filler neck and hose came in recently. Yesterday I figured out where to cut the hole. Today I cut. Was looking for a 3" holesaw as the hose is 2.5" and I wanted a little wiggle room. In my stuff, I go from 2.5 to 4" with nothing in between. Went by the local hardware store to get a unit to use but it was $22 for just the cutter, already have a mandrel, or the complete unit with mandrel was $19. I decided not to buy, just use what's in my arsenal already. My 2.5" cutter needs to be replaced so I put the 2" one on. After drilling a small pilot hole, I went around the area with my compass/scribe unit set to 1.5" giving me 3". Cut the 2" hole then went through the rest with my airsaw. Filed it down to remove burrs etc. Set the tank back into the nest, put the filler neck on, then tried the hose. I did cut the hose already yesterday so today was just a 1/4" trim to drop it down some. With some old hose, have a bin full just for stuff like this, I'll cut/slit a piece of fuel or vacuum line to make a grommet so the filler neck doesn't get rubbed through by the nest. Once it all looked good. I wiped it down with Acetone, went over the unit with a clean and strip disc, then wiped down with Acetone again. Tomorrow I'll wipe it down one more time with the Acetone prior to getting POR15 on it. I want to have it already coated before it gets welded to the floor of the trunk. Plus there are a couple of spots on the rails that can use some 15 that would otherwise be inaccessible once the nest is welded in place.

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After I took care of my morning routine, walk dogs/poo patrol/ trash/wash dishes/charge up bird feeders[ have a massive amount of Humingbirds this year]/water outside[ plants, trees, berries]/clean and recharge cat boxes, I was able to get the first coat of POR15 on the outer surface. More soon.

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Got some additional 15 on over the last few days. Topped off with a spritz of Rust Oleum matte black. Today I cleaned the paints off of the areas where welds will happen. Put the unit back in the car, added some additional screws to tighten up the gaps. I was thinking about getting some welding in but will leave that for when I get back from the tour. We head south early tomorrow to Pomona to get checked in. Monday is the first day. Looking forward to this.

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ckessel said:
Just some updates to keep this current. My garage is built, still have a couple of tasks to do for the final inspection sign off. At least for now the car is in the new garage and out of the elements. Later this year I can hopefully get back on it. For the garage, see my thread "lessons in patience to me" in the garage section.

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Looks to be a nice garage & some more panels on the car too boot...
Just saw this thread started reading only on like page 3 so far...
 
ckessel said:
I'm a firm believer of being suited up. As I've gotten older [actually started doing it 20+ years ago], I at minimum protect eyes and respiration. I have a lot of dough invested in the eyes, having done Lasik in 2000 and its hard to do anything without them. Respiration because I can't handle any particles since I'll get at least a cold/congestion from it. From there ears, wear either bluetooth headset or straight muffs and ALWAYS gloves and jacket when welding. The MRI's, 2nd set, are to see if I have any carbon in the pipes, aka plaque. I have a facial spasm on the left side thats caused by the Vertebral Artery on the left side of the brain stem as it comes out of the noodle. The artery has enlarged over several years and is applying pressure to the lh side of the brain stem causing the spasm. Doesn't hurt but ffn annoying, especially when welding, talking to people [really embarrassing when it spaz's] or when I concentrate on what I'm doing. Like driving in traffic with only one eye open or trying to TIG and not fry the weld. If I'm carboned up, its a no go since if they move it, carbon gets dislodged and stroke time. We'll see what happens.
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Sorry to hear & see this, I had no idea or didn't pay attention
if it was in another part of the forum

I hope this is better as a red more on page 5
 
ckessel said:
Some more progress from yesterday. I was working on a 1" wood dowel to use as my drill guide for the rear shackles. Called a friend of mine, actually who owned the car before I bought it from another gent, to see if his wood lathe was able to put a 1/8" hole in the center of the dowel. He said no but asked what I was trying to do. He ended up having a 1" dia metal spacer from some other project in his spares box, he holds on to stuff like that too as do I. So got that from him and I can slide that in a fair amount into the old shackle tube from the fuel tank side. 1/4 panel side didn't want to cooperate. From there I glued some flat washers on both sides of the spacer to use as my drill guide. With the spacer in place I'll be able to go through the walls of the rail with a pilot hole enabling me to come in from the tank side with my Rota Broach cutter to cut through both walls. I cut a couple of tubing sleeves to weld in for the new mount. The USCT pack came with new shackle mounts but they will make the car sit higher which I don't want. Another one of the FBBO bros did the USCT pack on his 66/7 and ran into the same situation. His remedy was to do what's in the fourth picture.

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That looks great :thumbsup:
 
ckessel said:
Yesterday I was able to finish scrubbing off any of the rust that could be gotten at without full disassembly of the unit. I took the wheel bolts[ these screw into the axle flange] out, used a hamburger wheel on the axle flange to clean off rust so when the rotor goes on, it's flat. Cleaned the threads of the bolts, put them back in with some red loctits. Removed the cover, cleaned off the sealing surfaces, blasted the cover, cleaned it off then coated it with Sharkhide for protection. Today I'm painting the diff with POR15.

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Looks good 1/2 way thru, still reading your posts...
I like the detail & explanations too :thumbsup:
 
ckessel said:
Last week I was only able to cut out and work another filler piece. My working on the car was postponed as we needed to get Rheemed. Not to be confused with reamed. LOL! In English I needed to replace our water heater. The GE unit would not stay lit, but hey, it was 12 years old. So got a new unit from Depot. The house looks like 2 story but its on a perimeter foundation with stilts and cross braces underneath in the "crawl space" which is 12' high on the north end and about 6' on the south. The access hole to the space is 26"x36", so a neighbor helped me get the new unit through the hole. All good now, have nice hot water. Man I forgot how heavy a full unit plus sediment etc can weigh. I let it drain out under the house onto the sand, we're on a massive sand dune out here and the next time its yard/garage cleanup day with the trash company, I'll drag it out from under the house. For now its out of the way.
Today I worked on the new filler piece, 3rd times the charm and got it to where I could get it tacked. After I got it tacked I noticed it had some oil can going so I put it in the shrinker and tightened it up. Next go around will be making the back filler piece/pieces. After that I'll get the vertical filler tacked on and from there start working on the firewall ducting.

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A ton of work in that Air-cleaner housing :thumbsup:
 
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