Thread: SHE LIVES to tell a thousand tales... (some funny ones too!)

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I have returned from the battlefield. Alive despite a few battle scars.
I can say one thing: I have now earned my wings and have learned A LOOOOOT about my hotrod the last 4 days.



We completed everything on our list (changed valve cover gaskets, changed oil pan and gasket, changed transmission pan and gasket, changed drive train seal, removed 32 radiator and had it resealed, changed motormounts and raised engine) and we even threw in a few extra things: adjusted the timing (and now Hiboy is even faster!) and I repainted my grill shell insides and grill insert. But I'll kid you not. It was ugly on the front line! We fought with all our mights, and it took all my smarts, his experience/muscles and divine intervention from a few kind angels to come out of this ambush in one piece.

Which is more than I can say about Hiboy, who came out of it in a THOUSAND PIECES he looked like a big, giant, jigsaw puzzle.




Tearing him apart was easy. Putting him back together was, well.... Another story altogether..... Mmmmmm....


Here are a few funny highlights:

1- What the heck is THAT?

Found one unidentified object inside one of my valve covers. A piece of metal tubing about 3 inches long. Just lying there. The only thing I could figure out, is that Hiboy had been previously abducted by Aliens and that they had forgotten one of their anal probes LOL in there.





2- DUH!

Jeff really needs to remember that just because one buys a brand new oil pan from P.A.W does not (and I repeat DOES NOT) necessarily mean that above mentioned oilpan had a tight drain bolt when it came out of the factory... the morning after, $40 worth of top quality synthetic oil and about 10 feet square of sliding delight later, we had in deed, learned our lesson.





3- Mmmmmm.... Honey, I think we are missing something!

Having removed the 1932 radiator, which needed to get repaired - again - blew a seal last week - and having sent it to an expert, we got it back just in time before closing time so to finish our repairs. Only problem is, we got it back with only one rubber mount. Uh-oh! We had to chop a gas pedal rubber to fabricate some new mounts and prayed they were the right height (as we learned the hard way that putting a 32 nose back together is NOT a walk in the park and that the radiator placement is a major league player in the plot to drive us to the brink of insanity. PS: Notice, on the photo below, towards the top left corner, you can see in the background the new motor mounts, with extra shim and freshly repainted red retainers hehehehe....





4- What happened?????

Putting back the hood last night was a real delight. nothing lined up. it took us no less than 4 hours to figure out the tricks to getting the left side to stretch an inch. HIboy looked all cockeyed and crooked and after undoing everything twice we finally started to make progress. Boy we sure learned a lot last night! Radiator/grill shell angle are everything and HOOD = HELL (and it seemed we had just bought a time share in it!) LOL

Well, Hiboy is now back together, looking GREAT and running BETTER than he did before. More details on the repairs themselves soon. gotta run for now.