’79 Mark V by Kuripiiritus

6 minute(s) of a 75 minute read

4-15-2009

Now the short summary what has been happening before this moment.

In December 2006 found a nice blue diamond from eBay. Won the bidding , but the offer was under the limit and we couldn't get an agreement with the owner. So started to look from different websites. Finally found one from Ellijay Georgia and made an offer. It was accepted by the owner and so the process started. Until at 30th march 2007 it arrived here. Took it straight to DMW and it passed the inspection, so i got the car registered and they handed me the number plates.

First thing to do was ordering the shop manual. They have been a great help since  

Soon i faced some light issues. The low-beams didn't want to work and the high-beams came on. As there are almost none old us cars in junkyards i had a choice to buy a new switch or refurbish the old one. I chose to open it up and rebuild it. 

Taken apart

closed up again.

Then i took on the oil leaking from the cylinder head covers. Ordered a full casket set and replaced the head cover caskets. As the covers were of i decided to paint them aslo.

before

after

When putting stuff together found a loose vacuum hose. This was the cause why the car was hesitating some times and wanted to die when accelerating.

I found a cb radio set from eBay. and bought it.

I have already mounted the new antenna. as the cb antenna is longer had to tune the old bracket and drill some new holed for it. Fixed the old holes with fiberglass. The radio itself has not yet been mounted. as there seems to be something wrong with the cb/radio splitter. When receiving it just makes a lot of noise. But it's sending nicely. though only static. Will have it renew by an radio enthusiast.

The blinkers got annoying as they took some seconds to warm up and then started slowly flashing. As the hazard flashers were working ok, then it had to be the relay. after replacing it works like charmed.

The fix:

The power doorlock was not working on passenger side. I took apart the door and seems like the door lock has died

Will have to buy a new one or fit a custom motor to it.

As the odometer was not working decided during the winter to take apart the dash and fix it.

opened up:

fount the build sheet under the dash:

laminated it for the future:

As the odometer was out, i decided to paint some new numbers on it as well. Before:

After

Not the best, but better than before. The reason of the system not working was, that one of the metal rings holding the plastic gears in place had come loose and the plastic gears were out of their place.

Now they are counting miles again.

The headlight doors were not closing as the dash was open took out the headlight switch also. Tested it manually and it seemed to be working. Then started going further along the vacuum hoses. At one moment i had a loos hose. But i couldn't find a place to stick it. Fortunately found vacuum diagrams from here in the documentation library  and the problem was solved. Then i fabricated a number plate stand from an old traffic sign (aluminum)

before: (not me in the picture)  

after:

As the light bulb sockets in the dash cluster were dead (plastic soft and crumbling) i decided to refurbish them also. Broke loose all the plastic that came and then made patched from fiberglass and made new sockets for the bulbs. 

Now the stand is what i described in the first post. Waiting for mounting of the new parts