[gtofreek]

Originally Posted by hurryinhoosier62

Paul,

It amazing to me, after seeing the oil pump photos, how many guys will not take the time to inspect an oil pump BEFORE installing it. They just throw them in, prime the engine then wonder WHY they have problems. Are you sure you didn't spend time with Bud Brown (my mentor)?

What's funny is some are like this, and some aren't. Yesterday, we were looking at a Melling Performance Ford 460 pump and it was fine on the mounting foot. They even cut a relief in so the head of the bolt would clear the body. They must just have bad molds at times and those batch's need work, while other sets of molds are fine.

This is why we never just bolt on a pump without tearing it completely apart and going through it.

Unfortunately, I have never met Bud. Sounds like a great guy.

[HWYSTR455]

Originally Posted by gtofreek

....This is why we never just bolt on a pump without tearing it completely apart and going through it....

Or any part for that matter!~

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[hurryinhoosier62]

Originally Posted by gtofreek

What's funny is some are like this, and some aren't. Yesterday, we were looking at a Melling Performance Ford 460 pump and it was fine on the mounting foot. They even cut a relief in so the head of the bolt would clear the body. They must just have bad molds at times and those batch's need work, while other sets of molds are fine.

This is why we never just bolt on a pump without tearing it completely apart and going through it.

Unfortunately, I have never met Bud. Sounds like a great guy.

He was, Paul. He was demanding, uncompromising and believed in building engines CORRECTLY the first time. To my knowledge, Bud had ONE warranty in over 50 yrs of building engines of all types.

[GOAT WHORE]

Well it's been awhile but we are after it again! Been working on it here and there but not much to report on..... until now that is! Finally got the car moved over to the spray booth and going to clean, sand and mask in preparation for primer. Plan is to get first coat in this next weekend.
Here the car sits in the prep area.

[GOAT WHORE]

Finally got the car in primer and going to block this coming Sunday. Wow what a lot of work. I wiped down then sanded the epoxy for around 4hrs during the week. Mike and I cleaned, touched up the sanding job, masked then sprayed 4 coats of Spies 5310 primer, about 1.25 gallons. Took about 10 hrs! Lot of breaks though, watched my son wrestle in the Michigan state open on the interweb. Preped the hood, deck lid and valance today and will prime tomorrow.
I can see the light at the end if the tunnel, well as far as paint goes that is!

[GOAT WHORE]

So we finally got the first coat of primer blocked and had very little iceing needed to straighten out things.
We are going to clean, remask and prime again tomorrow.

Got my dash and console ready and shipped off to Just dashes today.


Also got some stuff ready for the chrome shop. Console shifter cup, front turn bezals and this remote side mirror. Quite the devise to take apart.

[GOAT WHORE]

Decided to post a couple of shots of the car after the first block sanding.

[GOAT WHORE]

Well lots going on here lately. Been shipping stuff off to get restored, refinished or rebuilt. Brake booster just came back and looks great. Here is a shot of the Julian date code

shipping out the hood hinges and original master cylinder next week to get restored. Also shipped out the stock am radio to get modern guts including Bluetooth
Mike and I finally finished the second block sanding and it looks great. Car is coming apart next and it will get one more coat of primer that will eventually get wet sanded.
Moving along pretty good at this point.

[gtohurstjudge]

" Got my dash and console ready and shipped off to Just dashes today."
I've had several 69 GTO dashes done by Just Dashes over the years....the first
ones were fine, but the last one they did for me they didn't remove the old vinyl off the dash.....they put the new vinyl over the old cover. It looked OK, but the fit around the
glove box door and around the gauge bezels was too tight due to the the thickness of the material. I would call them if I were you and tell them not to do that on your dash or you will
have hell trying to make it work. It took me 4 hours to get the gauge bezels to go in and the
glove box door never has fit right on the dash in question.

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[Bet Winner]

Originally Posted by GOAT WHORE

Also got some stuff ready for the chrome shop. Console shifter cup, front turn bezals and this remote side mirror. Quite the devise to take apart.

I have an NOS remote mirror on my car, but I still have my original with the correctly dated glass in it. I would love to take mine apart, chrome it and reinstall with the original glass.

Did you get it taken apart w/o breaking anything including the glass? I have looked at mine and have not taken it apart, but I would love to restore the original.

I have also looked for someone that would just take it and restore it. Do you have any pointers for doing this?

Thanks