What did you do with your ebody/Mopar today?

[Dakota]

Banging out some transition pieces for tail section.
Learning curve for sure.

Beautiful work! 

[ec_co]

Great colour. What is it?

EB5

[jimynick]

The further adventures of .... Decided to put the shifter back in the car (perhaps a premature decision) and got the old pistol grip on the bench. It was as sloppy as your aunt Masie and the reason was immediately clear. The Hursts have a large hole in their sides for what appeared to be a large shoulder through bolt that the shift levers pivot on. I went back to the car to find it, as it wasn't in the shifter and after searching high and low, could not find it! Yikes, now what?! Remembering that son Nick had brought down a used Competition Plus shifter that I'd bought years ago, thinking I could rob it to install the other OEM one. After an hour going through my shelves of parts, I was forced to admit defeat.     Calling Nick revealed that he'd leaned it up against a balcony fence and I was able to get it. Taking it down to the work bench, I took it out and realized that it was not a special shouldered bolt I was looking for, but rather a thick sleeve bushing that pvoted on the centre through attaching bolt. Getting ready to steal the other one, I upended the shifter box and out fell a bolt with  bushing- seized onto it! Could it be? Loong story short, the surface of the roller was shiny and it is guessed that the other day when looking at and re-packing, it got loaded into the spare box. Jesus, what're the odds of that? Anyways, It appeared that the internal shift levers rotated on the bushing, but had worn slight groove due to it's inability to turn. the bushing was, as my old man used to say "tighter than a bull's ass in fly season" and required a meeting with the oxy torch and I got it to move. Problem was, I had to grab it so hard with the grips that I think I put a wee flat spot on it and although it would turn a quarter turn, it wouldn't come off. Off into a bag of oil to soak overnight.
  Today I went out, dragged the bolt/bushing out and thrashed on it until I got that GD'd bolt out and free! Seeing the way to victory before my eyes, I installed the newly buffed and lubed bolt/bushing and got the top through-bolt and shifter back onto the trans! Yea, it's all downhill now, right? Yeah, and your check's in the mail, too. OK, just need to get under the car and reinstall the shift rods, piece of cake! I'd bought new shifter bushings and retaining clips thinking to make the shifting apparatus all nice, tight and new-ish. LOL Firstly, my trans's shifting levers are not drilled for my bushings- nice, the next thing was those little SOB's lever/rod retaining clips. If you've ever tried to install them with the levers on the trans, you know my pain. Good thing there were 6-7 of them in the kit, because they boinged off everywhere and by that time (2 hrs?) I'd given up and removed the levers from the trans, and installed them, with no little difficulty, on the bench using the vise to hold the F'n rods tightly, it became evident that the 1-2 rod had been in the wrong side of the shifter arm, which req'd freeing the adjustment end. Sure, why not? Finally, I got the whole GD'd mess thrashed and in. I forgot to mention that part of this ordeal, was the 10-12 times I had to get out from under the car for tools, parts and ever-failing memory refreshments!. It was after 6pm when I said F.I. and crawled out and took the covies off. A long cool rye and Zero was like nectar sliding down my profanity scorched throat. AAhhhhh!   

[autoxcuda]

Finshed waxing the Hemi Satellite. Carefully since original paint.

Got some supplies for the Spring Fling show next weekend.  

Then a Tommy's Chilliburger run.  Was a favorite of the previous owner, RIP.

[Cuda_mark]

autoxcuda The Satellite looks awesome.

[ec_co]

I'm having 'fun' with my Dremel and some carbide cutters. Cleaning up block castings in the water pump area, oil pump passage. Also smoothing the bowls, removing a little extra meat around the stems and some minor port matching (gotta be careful on these /6 heads, the coolant passages get real close in some areas), looks like I'll really only need to work the exhaust ports.

[autoxcuda]

autoxcuda The Satellite looks awesome.

Thank you. We are having a Hemi Survivor display at the big Spring Fling mopar event next weekend here in L.A. and it will be under the tent.

[Cudajason]

Took a little 4 hour trip to pick up my new steering box. Looking forward to installing this in the next little bit. I hope the rally set up is as good as promised!

Packing process could use a little help...but what are you going to do.

[Brads70]

Installed my new ECS door vin decal and then took it out for a ride. First of the season!

[jimynick]

Nick and I tried to start the new engine and it made a weird whine as it turned over, almost like there were no plugs in the engine. Well there may as well not have been. I pulled number 1 plug and as we wound it over, there was virtually NO compression! WTF? and number 3 was the same! Nick got out our leakdown tester and the needle was nearly off the scale, poor. Oh God, what now? We got putzing around and winding out the valve lash adjusters, a lot, made the needle come back to about 5% leakdown! After checking a couple others, we've come to the conclusion that the recommended pushrods are too damn long, even though they adjusted as per the recommended amount. Shake head here. The damn pushrods appear by eye to be like a quarter of an inch too long. Being Sunday, there was no one to call and tomorrow I'll be on the phone. It's a magnum block with Proform aluminum heads and has AMC style lifters to allow lubrication through the pushrods. If anybody has experience with 408's with a similar configuration and can shed some light on where I've obviously stepped into the darkness, I'd be grateful for it. 

[cudamadd]

We put the 340 but in the bay to day I will try and do a photo

[blown motor]

Nick and I tried to start the new engine and it made a weird whine as it turned over, almost like there were no plugs in the engine. Well there may as well not have been. I pulled number 1 plug and as we wound it over, there was virtually NO compression! WTF? and number 3 was the same! Nick got out our leakdown tester and the needle was nearly off the scale, poor. Oh God, what now? We got putzing around and winding out the valve lash adjusters, a lot, made the needle come back to about 5% leakdown! After checking a couple others, we've come to the conclusion that the recommended pushrods are too damn long, even though they adjusted as per the recommended amount. Shake head here. The damn pushrods appear by eye to be like a quarter of an inch too long. Being Sunday, there was no one to call and tomorrow I'll be on the phone. It's a magnum block with Proform aluminum heads and has AMC style lifters to allow lubrication through the pushrods. If anybody has experience with 408's with a similar configuration and can shed some light on where I've obviously stepped into the darkness, I'd be grateful for it. 

Damn Ian, that had to be SO disappointing. I can image your excitement at starting it up and then to have that bubble burst really sucks. Good luck with the solution.

[jimynick]

Thanks Murray and you're right, it did suck. 

[YellowThumper]

Unfortunately developed a significant short with burned wiring. Preventing the maden voyage out to Spring Fling SoCal this weekend. !@#$%^&*.
So...
I moved on to finishing work for a couple sets to take with me while I visit Saturday and swap.
Any interest seeing them let me know.
3D printed with a lot...... of work mimicking the textured face.
In the back row you can see the cracked original for comparison.
These are 71-74 versions. 70 versions to follow.
ASA carbon fiber, painted silver frame.
Outer body face and louver body faces are matt clear coated with catalyst paint for durability.

[dodj]

With their lack of availability, I would think those sets would be rather popular. Depending on what you need to ask for them to make it worth your while.
Good luck