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Originally Posted by nighthawk756
Looking so much better!!  |
Absolutely agree!
Been really busy digging into the car more and fixing some stuff lately
Got the BBK headers removed
Got the antenna cleaned up and installed
Got those whatever style of non factory 5.0 badges removed and was intending on putting the original style ones back on, but had these "Black" original style ones laying around and decided to go with them as I believe the will compliment the soon to be black powder coated stock wheels
Also removed the front splash shields to see how everything looked and found these numbers on the body
Driver side
Passenger side
Also was in the middle of replacing the noisy "throw out" bearing and was very pleased to see how unbelievably clean rust wise this car is underneath for it having 172,xxx miles and a Utah car all its life!
Here in Nebraska we are used to cars rusting a soon as they leave the lot
But this hope to be $15 throw bearing replacement turned into a $200 dollar part job...here are some findings
Transmission dropped.
It was very difficult to get the transmission out once I had it unbolted from the bell housing as the bearing had unfortunately eaten into the transmission bearing retainer sleeve
Also the little clip/fork that clips on to the pivot ball was bent
Surprised that the speedometer still worked
And my last finding as the starter cable looks like something had gotten to it and one of the wires was just lying exposed against the body
Time to get some new parts coming and hopefully more work done!