What did you do with your ebody/Mopar today?

[dodj]

Checked accessory belts, adjusted the mounting of the fan shroud, replaced the fuel filter in preparation for the snow to leave....someday...probably late April....

[blown motor]

Yesterday I finished up replacing the passenger side header gasket on the Charger. I tell you, there is no room to work in there with a big block. I had to put #8 plug in from underneath and to get the #2 wire sleeve on, again, I had to come at it from underneath. No telling how many times I dropped a header bolt thing to get them installed. Hopefully my efforts will be rewarded. I'll find out when I fire it up in a few weeks.

[cuda hunter]

71 charger in Gun Metal Grey / Winchester Gray
318 auto.
This car hit an elk in 1980. Went through the window and broke the passengers side of the front seat.

Car looks pretty damn good for having hit an Elk!  Nice ride!  Beautiful mountains too!  Love the scenery out there!  I'll never forget the first time I went to Colorado.  Couldn't believe how huge the mountains were.  There's no view like that where I live.  Not even close. 

The car is surprisingly in decent shape with exception of where the window leaked water for 50 years. Maybe leaked isn't the right word.  It's a gaping hole. 
  The mountains are spectacular. I look all over the states for another place to move as I really really really don't like Colorado's politics.  Every time I come back to my county I tell myself I can't leave.  Our county welcome sign says  "Now This is Colorado"
I can see more than a dozen 14K mountains from my front yard and even more smaller mountains.  The temperature here doesn't get as "cold" as all the other places with mountains in the state.  We are in an area known as the "banana belt".  We can grow banana trees here.  Can't get banana's, but the trees will grow.  haha.

[ec_co]

Saw my painter the other day, these pics are shortly after laying the 3rd coat of clear. He has the initial sanding at 1500 now and will work up to 3k over the next couple days. Blackout comes after that - rad support, cowl, a-pillars and rocker pinch welds.

He also stopped in today to help pull the engine apart a little ..... We think there is a decent chance I can get it going 'as is' with a little extra effort. Fingers crossed.

[jimynick]

I managed to convince myself that today would be a good day to chip away at the things still needing to be done, so that I can put my Challenger back on the ground and see about starting it's new stroker engine. With that in mind, I looked in the engine compartment and happened to see a hose in space. ?? turns out it's the PB booster feed hose and looking further for where it went, I came to the realization that I'd put a nice, shiny brass plug into it's connection in the intake thinking it was superfluous to my needs. (leave the thinkin' to the horses son, they've got bigger heads"). Thankfully the original spigot was still in the original intake and I was able to salvage it. The problem was that the aluminium heat diffuser plate covered the port! so, off came the carb and the gaskets and plate. I marked the area and snipped a relief that allowed me to attach the fitting and hose to the intake. A bit of carbide burr work and sanding gave me the clearance to put the plate back on AND hook up the vacumn hose. Yea, a small victory, leading to my thinking I'd then tackle the starter wiring. Crawling under the old gal (the first of many trips) I discovered that there was no way in hell for me to do it with the started in place. Damn! So, it was the old gather tools and climb under (see the pattern here?) and realize that I didn't have the secret mix of extensions and flex sockets Anyways, I finally got the starter out and realized that the oem wiring connector was 90' out of phase for the new mini starter's connections! OK, I'll put the terminals on and crank it as req'd, right? Pleased with my crafty plan I attempted to get the wiring onto the starter's posts. Try to imagine you're under the car and can't get a left arm in to help. So out for more tools and remove the starter splash shield- that's better, then get the starter balanced in your right hand and go to put on the wiring connector with your left. What the hell?! The post of the started won't go in the hole in the connector's ignition lead! WTF?! So it's back out and up and get the old tapered reamer, remove the wiring and ream the hole a few thou and lo and behold, the nasty little SOB went on! The headers seem to obstruct access and the top starter bolt, while turning in by hand 3/4 of the way, then required flex sockets, a combination of extensions and a flex head ratchet and about 30 1/16th of a turn swings to tighten it up! Thinking the misery meter had been redlined, you may imagine my chagrin to see the starter harness now touches the header pipe! Having totally lost my sense of humour by now, it was decided that tomorrow was another day and beer and stogies ensued!! GRRRR!