’79 Mark V by Kuripiiritus

5 minute(s) of a 75 minute read

8-6-2014

As i can't do anything else useful at the moment, i thought that i'll play around in photoshop. Just to see how the car would look in different colors. As i'm not trying to keep the car original i might change the color as well, once the work should get to the repainting phase. top left is the original color.

i myself like the green and dark red. Black would be nice as well, but i think it would need black chrome and smoked lights to make it awesome.

It's been who knows how long from the last update. I'm finally back home from my travels and some stuff has been happening. Actually i came back last summer and had the car as a daily driver again. It started up easily after couple of years standing. Only issue was the battery had died. After the usual change of fluids it was back on road.

After driving a while the old issues came back. It was leaking oil from the head gasket and onto the exhaust manifold. When driving faster the 8o km/h i was like James Bond with a smokescreen behind me. As i was unemployed at the moment thus having lots of free time and a spare set of gaskets, decided to change them.

After taking the heads off, the cylinders didn't look and feel too bad. Pretty smooth with no hard grooves or other damage. Just a bit dirty.

Taking off the exhaust manifold was a bit more trickier, as couple of bolts had already been broken half. As i'm planning to change the heads and manifolds in the (near)future i just drilled out the broken 3 bolts and re-threaded the holes. As this changed the bolt spec needed to make couple of custom bolts from some bigger bolts.



Then i clean rest of the engine as much as i could.



After that reassembled the engine again.

After this hack the engine was fine for most of the rest of the year. But finally the old issues came back as probably the heads would need evening out etc. But as i'm going to replace them, that seemed like a waste at the time. So just a quick fix.

Also after standing unused couple of years, the window washer did not squirt water anymore. Decided to investigate this as well.
It seemed that one of the terminals had broken off and was not giving a good connection. When taking it off to repair it was obvious that the motor was ceased as well. Took the pump apart and it was totally corroded inside.



As the terminal was broken i soldered the wires straight to the motor and re-sealed the pump.

No it was pumping again, but there was still no water on the windshield. Probably a clogged hose. After following the lines found another pump on the line, which had died. So the refurbished pump was trying to pump the water trough a dead pump. Seems like the original pump died and someone made a hack and inserted an aftermarket pump into the line at some point. As the original was working i removed the aftermarket item and excess hoses and wires, after which the water reached the windshield as well.

 

Now i have decided to stop the patching and redo the engine from ground up. So this season will probably not driving the car as i still haven't started the work, but there shall be a lot more activity and updates on this thread. The plan is to remove the engine and transmission. To rebuild the engine and freshen the gearbox. Put a LSD to the rear axle. Swap out all break discs. After what i'l probably drive it for x amount of years before there is enough resources to tackle the body.

Stay tuned.