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does anyone have a pic. of the actual part that the cable is swagged to, and then goes to the throttle blade? Thought I had one

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Hey Jim! Done yet?

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sorry J for not posting up, seems I myself have been the project of late. Between my vascular surgeon, and my cardiologist, I've needed a complete rebuild... should be good to go, as I've had my surgeries done yesterday! A couple days recovery and should be back at it

Ya never know which way a project will progress, but I haven't given up yet. Hopefully, I'll have something to report in the next week or so

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Glad to hear ya came out on the good side Jim! Get well soon.

Richard

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Thanks Richard for the well wishes, been quite boring around here, going from the TV, to reading books on either the front porch or the back porch, where ever the sun was coolest. But I am current, on all the authors I read.LOL

Today was a success, as I weed whacked most of the yard, which was great as I had NO pain in my legs, maybe even able to cut the grass

3-4 months of sitting on my arse, has gotten quite old

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Jim glad you're ok, I thought maybe you we're going to surprise us all with a brand new paint job.lol
Slow and steady usually gets done.
Best wishes Bill

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Sorry, no surprises here Bill, paint is the last on my list. I'll drop off a fender or door off at Maaco at a time and call it good, my cowl came out really nice

I'd really like to fire the motor up, but still have some connections to make

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Jim,
been busy with seasonal maintenance and not on board much ,saw this tonight glad to hear your doing ok
Jess

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thanks Jess for the well wishes....

sux, all my pics up to page 75 gone, thanks photo bucket! I'm not paying 400.00

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still having problems mounting up rad., seems my harness is to large with the addition of wires for the headlight relays

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picked up my -12 and -10 block off caps, now I can continue on with the cooling system check, hopefully no leaks
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also found my aluminum ring I made for the fuel pump hold down, now I can finish that up, after I find a schematic for the pump

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four years and finically,have my aluminum rad. mounted to the 67-68 front core support (only designed for a two row rad.)using four row rubber bushes and brackets

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5/16tpi stud was the key to pull down straight, and then use the OEM bolt. bought a bag of them at Fastenal thru AUeevo black phorous coated and washer that rotates but doesn't come off

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This ought to be interesting, not a clue how to set up timing

Stabbing my dual sync distri.at least I remembered the gasket

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OK, I quit....EFI is not in my ability, carb and distri. is in my future for now. But, which one?

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Jim
Sorry to hear that. You have put a lot of work into that efi.

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thanks Richard, but I may have spoken to soon. Talked to a couple more knowledgeable people the other day, and found out that the fast dual sync distri. is the hard way to go! EFI Connections out of Erie Pa. set me up with a aluminum timing chain cover with an internal crank trigger and 4 pole reluctor ring. Also, a distri. with a built in cam sensor. There is a OEM one year only distri., but I don't feel like sourcing that out.

My installer quoted me a price of 1500- 2500 to wire this animal up, and dyno time to get it running right.

Parts should be in, in a couple weeks. In the meantime, I get to tear the front of my engine apart one more time. Thank goodness I have that cross member that my son and I had modified from DIY4x4, makes it much easier to drop the pan

Anyone want to buy a Cloyes timing cover with cam button? I'll be posting it soon in the classified section

Thanks for watching, this beast may work soon

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started to take the front of motor off again, still have to pull timing chain cover and oil pan

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since my crank moved, had to return to TDC. Now I have to find a bucket that hold 7 quarts of oil and zinc additive

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My parts came in today from EFI Connections, cam and crank triggers. Along with the 4x reluctor

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talked to EFI, and they said the clearance between the reluctor ring tooth and sensor s/b 30 thou. measured mine and came up with 23 thou., so I added a 10 thou. spacer

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timing chain cover installed, with crank sensor

word of caution...with the reluctor installed, it will push your balancer out maybe 100 thou., so alignment of belts and pulleys may be a problem in my future, we'll have to wait and see

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stabbed the cam sensor this afternoon, no problems

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All you have to do is turn the correct amount off of the snout of the balancer or find a balancer from a L31 Vortec.

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perfect solutions, thank you! I would've never thought of that....did you ever get yours running?

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timing chain cover sealed and torqued to 12 ft/lbs. next step turn down balancer

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None of my projects are running.......no time with working 80hrs/7 days a week every week.

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Kinda hard to hold w/p, 4 gaskets and 2 March brackets in alignment at the same time, so I use exhaust studs for alignment, then remove to bolt up....

Captain, good for the income, bad for the toys! Glad I'm outta that rat race

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the gaskets had a chance to set up, so, I took one bolt out at a time and reinstalled with thread sealer. Left side mounting bolts were a PITA, had to use a ball end allen wrench to tighten

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back in the blue.....4 salmon hooked up, 2 netted and released, 2 foul hooked, broke off

pics to follow, trying to get off of iphone

got my photos out of hock with photo bucket...thanks rsgt

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definition of insanity; doing the same thing over and over expecting differant results

My prndl pointer keeps coming out of the notch in the housing

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I think it's the height of the prndl lenses

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edit: save space for future inteligent comment

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saw foose use this method for installing porshe headlights in an europa. remove tape and install on white board.

Need to install computers under dash on a flat surface. 1/4 inch flange on plates

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a little closer to final shape

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paper dolls and cut outs are over, now just mount the template to my 1/4" plywood and cut out and my spacer plate should be done

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I want to add a oil filled gauge to the engine compartment for first fire, found an adapter with a 1/8" port

parts s/b here thursday

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achieved WOT on first try, but dropped a nut under plenum, still looking

been careful not to lose OEM throttle clip, but I did, now have to source one out

ordered cable adjusters from lokar, so I can install kick down cable

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