New 79 KC for my dad

[izzo]

[Eagle_Adam]

moving back to portland.... again

this will be the 1st one fixed in a long line of shit i need to finish

[Eagle_Adam]

More parts arriving










New gauge bezel to replace the broken one currently in it



Finally got my tools to the garage!


Even organized em






Took a razor blade to the gasket surfaces but wasn't happy


So a buddy brought this over





Much better! Thanx Jacob

[Eagle_Adam]

Ended up realizing I needed a round port mani not the square one I had -.-

Soooo...


Time to de-smog it!


That's better


Even managed to con my mom into repainting the silver on the gauge bezel


Came out pretty good for the 1st coat


Maybe a 2nd tomorrow

[Eagle_Adam]

White face gauges and an LED bulb swap? Yup! I think so!!


Found a brand new Webber adapter at a mom n pop auto parts store


Test fit #1


Still a few bugs to work out :/

[DRIVEN]

Good lookin little truck.

Progress.

[Ni10]

is your mom using a paint pen ? Think that's what there called.. Been thinking about doing the same to mine.

[Eagle_Adam]

A silver sharpie

[Eagle_Adam]

Found a better tach delete plate in my stash so on it went but the gauges are on hold till parts get here




So onto something else....

Right, the pass door that won't open from the inside and stopped latching all together after it got towed to the garage.....


The guilt culprit


And more waiting for parts.....

[DRIVEN]

Judging from the last time I say your garage, I have a hard time believing you'd have to wait on any part for a 620.

[Eagle_Adam]

Oh the irony, with all the moving I've done my parts stash is now 100 miles away from my garage :/

[Eagle_Adam]

Well shit....

Right after I got the gauges back together I remembered I needed to swap out the faulty speedo in the gauge itself so back apart it goes

[Eagle_Adam]

So everything came back apart......

Pulled the faulty part


Swapped in the good one


And since it was apart again I decided to touch up the black paint in a few places and replace the clear plastic piece that covers the gauges since the one I have now is cracked

Should have a new one in a day or two

[Eagle_Adam]

So while I waited for parts it's onto the next thing on the todo list!

Finish up the smog delete, conned a buddy into plugging a few holes I made in the exhaust mani


Pretty???? No not really but the welds are functional


Next was to find a solution to the broken studs


Which ended in blood -.-


But I got one punched thru, one more to go but I need new drill bits

[Eagle_Adam]

Gotta replace the carrier bearing too cus


But I have had this little unicorn in my parts stash for a while, guess it's time to use it finally




Mmmm NOS goodness!


Did find it kinda odd that the carrier bearing I took out wasn't round....



Ended up handing this off to Nismodr so he can use his air tools at work to take a crack at swapping the new one on for me

He even brought me this tool to borrow, it's supposed to hold the torque converter in the trans while you reinstall an auto tranny - hopefully I can put it to use soon

[Eagle_Adam]

Cleaning parts and stuffs

Just about everything under the hood looked like this



So I spent some time making it look more like this!




New fuel filter cus I can't remember when it was changed last

[draker]

What are you using to clean up that aluminum? Looks good. I need to do that to my fuel pump also.

[Eagle_Adam]

Brake clean, a wire brush, and a drill attachment that's more or less a wire brush

[Eagle_Adam]

Early morning touch up painting




Should have the 1st box of parts I'm waiting on here today hopefully

[draker]

Looks good!