Just so you all know, I started this thread so I could torture myself with the progress that everybody's making on their cars. I cry in the corner. Happy tears though.
Only thing I did yesterday is finish the cam end play settings on the Tomahawk block. The Felpro timing cover set finally came in after 5 days or waiting. Had to install 2 more shims behind the cam button to get back to .010
Yes. On a bucket seat, if you take the black plastic cover off (mine was facing forward under the front of the seat), you will see the transmission. There are 2 small, slotted buttons that are just big enough to get a small flat head screw driver into. One makes the seat go up and down and the other forward and back (at least that is how it is on my 69 driver seat). I had to do this to get the seat out of the car. It is not a fast moving process, either. And I found a picture of this. The screws are in the yellow circles...
In the past couple weeks, my better half and I took the GS400 to Thanksgiving dinner at the parents house, about 50-miles away. Then, last weekend I took it to a cruise-in in Lutz, FL, about 25 miles away. Since then it is resting comfortably in the garage. The weather here has been awesome the past couple weeks.
Rich, you drove right by my place, stop by for a cold one next time you're just cruising around. Fernando
Absolutely Fernando! I met a guy named David at the cruise-in that knows you. He had a blue 65 Skylark with a SBC in it. I'll send you a message next time I'm out cruising around.
Today I installed the power steering pump back onto the car. I had sent it through Rock Auto to Cardone in Texas to be rebuilt. I flushed it out good and added a filter. It already had a quick ratio steering box. I have several things I intend to do this winter, hope I get it all done.
I drove mine as my daily driver because I broke the Lexus GS 10 days ago and I'm left with nothing if I don't since the Buick 350 GS is down for engine build. I've even moved it to the house garage instead of the detached.
Gorgeous vehicle. And by the way, I have followed your Lexus wheel bearing mess. I feel for you. I used to work for Toyota for many many years. One of the most difficult jobs I ever attempted in my home garage was replacing a right rear wheel bearing on a 2011 Camry. It was an absolute nightmare that required quite a bit of work and a good friend who is a Toyota technician to help me out of the bind. Even he cussed every minute of it.
Those big bodies are so fantastic. Your power steering pump reminds me of something that I broke a couple of years ago. I decided to do a one wheel peel in my Skylark, and hit a patch of slicked are. The RPM's went to about 9500000, and actually spit the power steering belt off and wrapped around my harmonic balancer. Good times. I really thought I blew something up. Apparently the guy that built this engine fifteen years ago really built it well. It has been way past its redline countless times.
Took a coworker for a ride in the GN. She dug it. Ran into an old friend who asked about the status of my rag top. He was incredulous that I still hadn't gotten it back. Felt like a dumbass.
Still nothing on my Buick’s since this thread has been started. Currently torturing myself resurrecting a customer’s 1975 Lincoln Continental Mark IV that caught on fire last year. Getting close to first start since it went up in (small) flames.. then onto replacing my GN’s headliner.
Doing my rear, noticed that bump-stop brackets were at pretty bad shape. Picture from the worse one. So spend a day doing new ones. Dimensions are inside 1mm, tomorrow to cut old ones off after measuring their installation orientation and distance. They are finished now, pictures of raw versions. Old ones were 3.5mm thick, measured from healthy part, new ones 5mm.
A friend picked me up at 5am Tuesday and we delivered his 69 GS Convertible to his son's house near Chapel Hill, NC. Car ran flawlessly and got 16-17 mpg on the 500+ mile trip. Explored the area yesterday and even had the top down for a while.
