An actual update

[3.4 slow to go]

FInally got off my as$ & did some work onthe bird (not too long before I go back to the desert again).

Removed teh driver side control arm so I could move the motor mount & get some new bushings. I didn't remove the steering nuckle, just dropped the tie rod & ball joint, removed the bushing bolts (none stripped/snapped) and am gonna clean up the rust & paint. Liquid wrenched the bottom mount bolts & will see about remob\val tomorrow. then will do the pass side. Moving the brake line should prove interesting, and knowing my luck it will snap.

[ October 03, 2005, 01:01 AM: Message edited by: 3.4 slow to go ]

[Jerriko]

Good luck with that stuff. You are putting an 8 in it, right?

[3.4 slow to go]

yeah, I'm a sell-out [img]redface.gif[/img] ;)

[Jerriko]

Whatever works.

[3.4 slow to go]

so long as it doesn't spontainiously combust, & actually drives, I'll be happy. no nazi e-check starting 1 Jan, and I got the driver side motor mount off, and teh pass side tie rod & ball joint dropped.

[vanbibber]

i thought you liked the bon-firebird look? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[3.4 slow to go]

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[3.4 slow to go]

OK, got the vee-ate motor mounts. and they go............. my 2, yes TWO 3rd gen holy book haynes are MIA, and the info I've seen on tgo doesn't show the mounts in place to whatever holes. Only 2 bolt holes on the mounts line up w/the holes in the k-member. Anybody have some pics?

[vanbibber]

just go to the local library and pick one up. they should have it.

[3.4 slow to go]

the local what?

[vanbibber]

that thingy with with all the paper glued together with words on them.

[3.4 slow to go]

the newspaper glue factory?

anyway, motor mounts should be intonight, and the a-arms back in tomorrow. then the tranny & all that wonderfull cussing involved w/that

[3.4 slow to go]

no motor mounts in yet, work has been kicking my azz. Did get the radiator in today. looks weird w/the cap on the wrong side. Any way, what's w/the outlet looking thing just beneath the cap? not the overfolw nipple, the bigger one below it? just wondering if I need to cap it off or anything.

At least I get to use those radiator mount pads I got a while back ;)

[Jerriko]

Originally posted by 3.4 slow to go:


At least I get to use those radiator mount pads I got a while back ;)

:D

[3.4 slow to go]

ok, mounts in, a-arms in, tranny installed & wating , car off jacks & back on it's own feet. drop in motor, finish some wirin g, install the afpr, rebuild carb, blah blah blah, it's good to go