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I have an M-Body...It's a Dodge/Plymouth Gran Fury
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Mine is a 1981 Plymouth Gran Fury with a 318 and cold A/C...it's in storage right now...it will come out of storage in 3 months for new A/C lines and compressor...new master cylinder and brake booster...new carpet....headers from my Aspen and a dual exhaust kit from Summit Racing...it's going to get a little engine bling with a no lean burn air cleaner and some chrome valve covers...my 16 year old daughter is going to start driving it for her first car....it made it through the first daughter....It is my wife's grandmother's car from El Paso Texas...we kinda inherited it and it is what got me going on cars again..I will never sell it...Grandma crashed it and they put a Dodge front clip on it and the rear is still a Plymouth
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Cleaned up the storage and the four door...started right up
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Okay by next weekend I need to get back to one storage so I did some cleaning and organizing...left side of wall there is a 440 on an engine stand...a A904 tranny...some tool boxes...my 318 out of my Dart...4 radiators...a generator for hurricanes...12 5 gallon gas cans....my hood off my Dart...two bikes and a pressure washer...two BFG tires and two A body leaf springs..and engine stand...more to come...
Attachment 16111 Washed off three years of dust and put new plates on her....she will be coming home next weekend for some maintenance... Attachment 16112 |
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I started some work on the old girl last night I removed the hood insulation that had years of El Paso Texas dust in it..it was also covered with oil and at one time was home to some kind of animal...I found some of it pulled out and some leaves in the hole...I got all of the A/C lines out also...took rememberance photos also....
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Got the A/C system almost ready to put a vacuum on
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Got the new lines....re-built compressor...drier...and expansion valve installed...have to get some oil tomorrow to pour into the compressor and put the suction line on..not to pretty under the hood..will give it a good bath and then put those shiney chrome valve covers on...
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Got everything with that A/C buttoned up tonight and got the A/C charged
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Tonight I ran the vacuum pump on the system for an hour and then maintained a good vacuum on the guages for 15 minutes...I went ahead and charged the system up and with no leaks it is blowing cold are again...so much good that the suction line sweats all the way back to the compressor and the compressor cycled off once on low suction temp.....:eek:...put some chrome bling on it last night...with the A/C complete I have the brakes next... Attachment 16104 Got two little pieces of belting from work and made me some insulators for the lines running across the radiator support.... Attachment 16105 |
Work on the brakes tonight...
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Took out the old master cylinder and the old brake booster...that brake booster always gets me cussing....:mad:....I found a little easier way this time...the new one was back in....took about 10 minutes to put it in and over an hour to take it out...got the new master cylinder hooked up and ready to bench bleed..I would say it was leaking back there
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Old carpet out....new carpet almost in
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Okay I got the front seat out with the help of the wifey...that carpet was really smelly...:eek:...I pulled it out and was surprised to see a black looking sound deadener pads on the floor...once more I was surprised to see rust free virgin floors...thank god to that dry dustbowl El Paso Texas...pulled the old carpet out and layed the new two piece in place..will let it air out tonight and get the seat belt holes and front seat holes done tomorrow...front seat back in maybe...sorry about the dark night time photos...
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Way back when, my sister had a 65 Barracuda, crashed it and it got a Valiant front end
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looks good i got an old fifth avenue thats slowly rotting away im trying to find parts for that was my first car :P
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Went Junk yarding today
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got up early....9:00 is early for me and hit the first Pick-a-part on this side of town....no old cars...then I hit their other location 45 minutes away on the other side of town..and got lucky....I found a Cordoba and 88 Fifth Avenue....
Attachment 16082 Attachment 16083 I scored a fresh air intake...a fan shroud...a five blade fan and seven blade fan...also one door lock cylinder...I got the fresh air intake installed tonight and took a pic of the damaged door lock cylinder...can you believe someone tried to break into this car when my first daughter was driving it.... Attachment 16084 Attachment 16085 |
Its an 81 right? Did you have some R12 laying around, or did you convert it to R134 for the A/C?
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Originally Posted by scotts74birds
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Its an 81 right? Did you have some R12 laying around, or did you convert it to R134 for the A/C?
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I am almost off of M body duty...it passed inspection...one more trip back to the pick-a-part this Sunday and I will be good...still have to get a locksmith to fix up that key cylinder I got and get it installed...
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Great Car
I drove one for a living and wish I had one. Great car, power steering took no effort, and it had an A/C unit that would freeze even me out which is hard to do since my calendar has only 3 seasons, fall, winter, and fall. I love your car.
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Many years ago my sister had a 65 Barracuda / Valiant from an accident..
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