AJ's 72 4 dr 510 - brought to you by me :)

[fuzz's '71 510]

Next up is to strip the engine bay clean and determine which holes stay and which ones go & mount the motor to the stand and tear it down for further inspection.

 

 

Can anybody tell me what the casters at the front of this ^^^^ car are called or where to get them?

 

I was told you can get them at harbor freight and weld them on an old crossmember. I asked the same question before and the 510keeper told me about this trick, it does work rather well.

 

Fuzz

[ARMY AUSTIN]

LOVING THE EMPTINESS OF MY ENGINE BAY!!!

 

Now its starting to look like a good project! Shout out to the ratsun's who put in time on that! MUCH LOVE! :cool:

[Skib]

 

Skib has the rest of the photos im sure he will post them later.

 

 

gettin the exhaust cut off

 

 

GTFO motor!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jassifrass]

:thumbup: Nice!

[Eagle_Adam]

flywheels off and the motor almost mounted:

 

Heads off:

 

Pistons are out:

 

Bottom end:

 

 

 

 

 

Ok now time for questions:

i can not for the life of me get the damn pulley off the end of the crank ^^^^^ - - do i really need to buy a puller?

 

I found these marking on the cam ^^^- i have not looked for more yet or tried the search function but if you could let me know what to look for that would be helpful

 

And cool finds:

 

^^^^^ a few marking i found on the block

 

 

More to come next weekend

[Skib]

:o make sure you keep all those rod caps and main caps in order!

[Eagle_Adam]

UPDATE:

 

The main caps and rod ends are in order and i have been doing all kinds of things to strip down the car.

 

The wiring harness is almost completely removed

seats are out

gas tank is out

headliner is out

door panels are out

exhaust is off

 

 

this was all that was holding the exhaust up after it went thru the rear crossmember

 

 

 

 

It was a piece of a fan belt cut up and held together by a hose clamp

 

 

This is the left overs from a mouse nest i found between the headliner and the roof

there was all over, and i was not expecteing all of that to fall on me when i took down the headliner

 

and then there was this:

 

Has to be like 2 pounds of this shit ^^ in each of the rear doors

 

something tells me that this door ^^ isnt original to this car

[dennis]

 

something tells me that this door ^^ isnt original to this car

 

Maybe it was a lego car.

[Eagle_Adam]

UPDATE:

 

 

Gas tank is out ^^^^ and not going back in - fuel cell baby!!!!

 

 

Dash is out ^^^^

 

 

^^^^ front suspension and steering are out

 

 

^^^^ engine bay is completely stripped and marked as to what gets welded

 

All thats left is to

*have the glass removed - happening tomorrow

*remove door handles/locks/and glass

*drill holes for and mount new side mirrors - then remove

[Jassifrass]

 

Ok now time for questions:

i can not for the life of me get the damn pulley off the end of the crank ^^^^^ -

 

 

BFH

 

I don't know if you did this yet or not but I have a few times. Kelly's came right off with the 610 but I had to spend like 10 mins hitting mine with a hammer to get it to come off.

[Eagle_Adam]

dbl post - fail

[Eagle_Adam]

BFH

 

I don't know if you did this yet or not but I have a few times. Kelly's came right off with the 610 but I had to spend like 10 mins hitting mine with a hammer to get it to come off.

 

I got it off, but it did take a pulley puller, and a socket. That fucker was on there good!

[Skib]

lookin goooooooood man :cool:

[Eagle_Adam]

Thnx Skib

[Jassifrass]

I got it off, but it did take a pulley puller, and a socket. That fucker was on there good!

 

 

yea when i took mine off it was still in the car so i bumped the starter to get the bolt loose then smacked the shit out of it till it fell off....not fun

[Eagle_Adam]

- back

 

- front

 

 

 

This vvvv is the only unseen damage - not too bad

 

both were the lower corners on the windshield

 

I had Steve from "The Glass Worker" come out and remove the glass so;

A. I didnt fuck up the trim or the glass

and

B. so i could see how it was done properly

 

 

I will be posting a How To in the next day or two once i get time, ive got as fe movies of Steve doing it and some critical pointers i picked up on. Thanx to ptown green for the reference on glass work.

[Skib]

aw that rust is no match for the keeper :cool:

[ptown green]

This is so cool man! I'm really glad that worked out for you. I'm gonna have him come put my glass back in when its time. He had really good prices with seals included for my gf's 240. Did you ask him about any of that. I'm gonna call him, just curious on the price in case you asked

[Eagle_Adam]

I didn't talk to him about much other than what he was doing. He only charged $50 to take out the windows and I know he had to drive home in traffic so I thought that was a good price. He's a cool dude and I plan on calling him to show me how to put em back in too.