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What did you do to your Mopar today?

Pulled the hubs on the Bee and swapped sides (and readjusted the shoes) to determine two things. Is the right getting hot from tire scrub or a bad bearing and to see if that also makes the left brake grab now vs the right. So tomorrows test run, as it's already 36C today, will hopefully have the heat STAYING in the right wheel and the brake grab moving to the left and I'll at least know it's a drum issue for the brakes and that I have no bearings that are bad. I know I need an alignment touch up, but I'm not going anywhere near an alignment shop at this time.
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Installed the OEM front sway bar I got from Kern, haven’t had one on the car and can’t wait to give her a run, but still waiting on my rebuilt booster to come in and put back together
 
:screwy:Pushed through the heat ( thank god I had the umbrella up) got it painted with the Eastwood rust encapsulater, matte black finish. Ran to O’Reilly between the first and second coat and got some new copper header collector gaskets. Darn things are made in China
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Oh boy. Spent an hour trying to extract a bolt that fell down into my still-on-the-stand 505. A 1/4-20 went down the distributor hole, into the nether-regions.... It's all sealed up and leak tested and I was NOT going pull the oil pan and tray or timing cover..so I set about trying to fish it out through the top with the long magnet stick and grabber tool. Not enough space around the internals to manipulate the tools where they needed to go. Turning the engine upside down only made it get more lost. When it found it's way to the bottom of the pan, I tried and tried, and finally, got it with the magnet stick through the oil drain hole. Only to discover, it was a hair too big to come out the hole! I ended up getting the long flexible grabber down to the pan, through the distributor hole, where I could see the claw in there through the drain hole. I pushed the bolt over against it with a small piece of tubing, and was finally able to get it...I was sure it was gonna hang up and fall as I slowly pulled it up and out, but the claw held and I got that sumbitch. Then promptly stuffed rags into all openings and chucked that damn bolt as far as I could...
 
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Ugh - what an ordeal. I've had similar quests, beanhead. Glad you got! It's a good feeling when you can finally fix a problem like that and get back to the real tasks at hand.
 
Need to get the torch going and turn that bolt into slag, slowly so it suffers....lol.
 
Finally got the heli-coils I needed to fix the explorer. Sounds like it’s running like normal again. Took the Coronet out after getting the paint on the bottom side and replacing the collector gasket. I think I need to replace drivers collector gasket too. Still sounds like an exhaust leak, though it’s definitely not as bad.

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Driving the Coronet as long as I can keep the fuel filter cleaned out. Had to work on my exploder. 4.6 Fords like to pop out the spark plugs, I’ve heli coiled 3 the past couple years. Found out why it hasn’t felt like it’s been running right, Check engine came on again, scanned it at oriellys. Multiple misfires, no other info. Late yesterday I started pulling plugs out, one pulled the helicoil with it but I was able to get it back in. Pull a couple other plugs just fine. Then another fixed plug, again the heli coil pulled out. :BangHead: ordered some new heli-coils last night. Be delivered tomorrow. Good thing I don’t have to drive much right now.

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Finally got the bed liner done on my Power Wagon. I used Tintable Raptor and used the left over base coat I had from the dark section of the truck. Its been in SPI epoxy for about two years so a good scuffing was in order.

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beanhead said:
Oh boy. Spent an hour trying to extract a bolt that fell down into my still-on-the-stand 505. A 1/4-20 went down the distributor hole, into the nether-regions.... It's all sealed up and leak tested and I was NOT going pull the oil pan and tray or timing cover..so I set about trying to fish it out through the top with the long magnet stick and grabber tool. Not enough space around the internals to manipulate the tools where they needed to go. Turning the engine upside down only made it get more lost. When it found it's way to the bottom of the pan, I tried and tried, and finally, got it with the magnet stick through the oil drain hole. Only to discover, it was a hair too big to come out the hole! I ended up getting the long flexible grabber down to the pan, through the distributor hole, where I could see the claw in there through the drain hole. I pushed the bolt over against it with a small piece of tubing, and was finally able to get it...I was sure it was gonna hang up and fall as I slowly pulled it up and out, but the claw held and I got that sumbitch. Then promptly stuffed rags into all openings and chucked that damn bolt as far as I could...
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Pulled distributor the other day had my 2" rubber repair freeze plug dropped into the hole. No nuts, bolts, screws or mice going in.
That is a pisser to have happen. I keep stuff like the bolt to remind me of an event like that. Glad you got it out.
 
Brought it back from the paint shop.

...for the second time.

Still not completely "right" but for $2000 I don't think I'm gonna get any more.

Pics and details to follow.

I'm reasonably happy. Maybe even $2000 happy.
 
Took all morning, lots of the time measuring and was only off by about .125", I'm happy with the results.

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Chin spoiler will have to wait, bumper is to banged up so I'll need to get a new one...
 
Larrry B. said:
Took all morning, lots of the time measuring and was only off by about .125", I'm happy with the results.

Chin spoiler will have to wait, bumper is to banged up so I'll need to get a new one...
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I love everything you do with this car! Build it to drive!
 
Headed out today just after 4 AM, north through Shadow Hills toward Sunland / Tujunga to catch the 2 Fwh South to Glendale / L.A.
Drove through DT L.A. briefly once off the 2, jumped on the 110 to the 10 West to connect to PCH, then once again up the coast with a new white Camaro that wanted to show me what it could do.

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Kanan Dume to the 101 all the way home, passing everything on the road.

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Hood stayed in place and car did well at 4K (+/-) rpm, adjusted the front shocks to about half (firmness) and the car stuck it's landings every time on dips throughout the drive, approx 96 miles / 2 hrs.

No wife this AM so I was able to push it a bit harder and pulled the seat-belt tight, I did order the Procar bucket seats and should have them near the end of July, seat brackets are back-ordered until August....
 
Larrry B. said:
Headed out today just after 4 AM, north through Shadow Hills toward Sunland / Tujunga to catch the 2 Fwh South to Glendale / L.A.
Drove through DT L.A. briefly once off the 2, jumped on the 110 to the 10 West to connect to PCH, then once again up the coast with a new white Camaro that wanted to show me what it could do.

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Kanan Dume to the 101 all the way home, passing everything on the road.

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Hood stayed in place and car did well at 4K (+/-) rpm, adjusted the front shocks to about half (firmness) and the car stuck it's landings every time on dips throughout the drive, approx 96 miles / 2 hrs.

No wife this AM so I was able to push it a bit harder and pulled the seat-belt tight, I did order the Procar bucket seats and should have them near the end of July, seat brackets are back-ordered until August....
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I love that you actually drive the hell out of it!

Jeff
 
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