’79 Mark V by Kuripiiritus

3 minute(s) of a 75 minute read

5-23-2011

A lot of time has passed, and pretty much nothing has happened, not towards the "good" direction.

Last year changed out the old oil pump. But the new one had too much power for the old gaskets, so found another weakest link. 

As master studies have taken my whole time the car will probably not see daylight this year.

todo list:

* fix the broken headlight switch, there ore some options, will see which one is going to be the chosen one.

- get a replacement

- get a full package with auto hi-beam switch etc

- reengineer the switch to a combo with relays. (vacuum operated by the old switch, lights operated by relays) 

* fix gear selector. It just broke off. hopefully can be repaired.

* take out the engine and take it apart. depending from time and available recourses either:

- change gasket and perform maintenance jobs where needed

- rebuild and upgrade the inner engine. have different ideas what to do, have even considered making it a storker  

* right window motor has dies again. hopefully the DIY motor bushings are dead and just need to make stiffer ones. Else, have to get a new motor.

* Take off the vinyl and fix the roof underneath it and put in a new one. think have to do it before the overall painting, as the whole painting will take too much money for the current budget.

there is probably some more quick fixes that need to be done, but can't remember them at this point.

12-19-2011

And again lot of time has passed and pretty much nothing has been done. This year car stayed in the garage once again. 

I have a plan that on spring I'll take of the engine out and see what's inside. After this have to do a little calculating and see, if I just swap the gaskets or have budget for some upgrades also. As i really want to take the car out next year, it has been sitting long enough.

Managed to start the work on the gear selector. 

From nicely looking dash..

i was in no time back to the no dash (getting pretty good at removing it). This time i got to take it a little further.

Getting the steering column out was a real pain in the ass.

Currently at this point

Turns out the fix if even possible is not going to be that easy. Have to disassembly the whole thing, as the part to what connect the leaver is going trough almost the whole steering column. Did not had more time to fiddle with it. hopefully next time i can get it totally into molecules and test if it can be welded or something.