[Bentwheelbob]

Originally Posted by Red Goat

Dang, that MC looks nice! I'm hoping you'll bring the black car to Dayton this year...

My goal is to have it done by Dayton. I think I can, I think I can..

Originally Posted by Brewster

okay I give whats up with the drop links?

The deal is I went ahead and used and pressed in the Prothane bushings because I doubted my ability to sweet talk anyone out of their NOS drop link bushings.

[Bentwheelbob]

Doing the "big stuff" like air cleaners, alternators, manifolds, et cetera is where the fun is at because you get such instant gratification seeing big parts rejuvenated, Unforetunately, about 70% of the work is the small parts like bolts, washers, spacers...All of them get media blasted, wire wheeled on the pedestal grinder, and shot with clear satin. After that they are bagged, tagged and zip tied to the appropriate part or the best alternative. These are from the back of the AC compressor.

[PB]

You'll have the sticker next week! My bad. Looking good Bob. When's retirement and opening up your restoration shop start? You'll have a line.

[Bentwheelbob]

Well, a few things got done.. I am beginning to enjoy the "benefits" of having a 15 year old driver though. My daughter Mini Me started out with my wife late yesterday morning to run errands and only made to the stop sign at the corner of our property before they were sidelined with a flat. Got it pulled, marked it with crayon, loaded it in my F350 and sent them to the tire store. Mini me drove the F350 Crew Cab Long Bed diesel which amazed me, but she loved it. They got home and the tire got fixed. She wanted to then drive around the neighborhood so we took my Suburban. She did great except when it came time to back up our driveway and whe ended up leaving it in a bush. This morning I woke up after a torrential rain storm to find that the west facing window on the F350 was down, and the sunroof on the Suburban was open....Uggg. I bet that will not happen again.

On the Black Car pieces and parts the A/C compressor is now done, the exhaust ports on the heads have gotten the fist coat of POR15, the front and rear sway bar bushing brackets have gotten coated with RPM, and an original 4 core manual radiator is coming my way. The A/C compressor looks really good. MPD installed a double lip Teflon seal, and it got painted with low gloss OER black.The old paint was removed using Brake Kleen. I also found a correct water pump with a decent date code range to replace the incorrect 488296 pump currently on the motor. It's being shipped to a Member for a rebuild. Here's some pictures.

[Brewster]

Look surprisingly good even with half that Irish Whiskey gone

[Pepi]

I'm curious to see how well that double lip seal for the compressor works. I sent mine out to get rebuilt, and the seal still leaks. I might have to try the double lip seal.

Would MPD be willing to do one for me?

Thanks,
Karl

[Bentwheelbob]

Originally Posted by Pepi

I'm curious to see how well that double lip seal for the compressor works. I sent mine out to get rebuilt, and the seal still leaks. I might have to try the double lip seal.

Would MPD be willing to do one for me?

Thanks,
Karl

I'm sure he would. We bought all the specialty tools, et cetera, however, these things are so damn heavy the cost of shipping might be prohibitive. The seal itself is $11.00.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AC-GM-Compre...item2812391127

[Pepi]

Thanks, I just bought one. I've got an extra compressor sitting here, I might try and see what I can do. The one on the car I shipped out to a place and they completely rebuilt it, but the seal kept leaking. I sent it back and they said there were contaminants in the system. I had flushed the condenser and replaced everything else, so I don't know where they would have come from. So I flushed everything again while they were replacing the seal, and it still seems like it is leaking excessively.

[unruhjonny]

Originally Posted by Bentwheelbob

I also found a correct water pump with a decent date code range to replace the incorrect 488296 pump currently on the motor. It's being shipped to a Member for a rebuild.

On that note, I understand you used to be able to rebuild water pumps (please forgive my ignorance, I was born several decades too late to have lived through the musclecar period);
I have seen in POCI that there is a company offering to rebuild/upgrade pumps, but rarely read of people simply rebuilding them - are you getting the service advertised in POCI done, or did you find someone here who does primo OEM rebuilds?

I have to go digging through my own (probably paltry compared to yours) parts stash, but I think I located a correct water pump for my car, and have had this in the back of my mind...

[Bentwheelbob]

On the water pump, OPH is doing it. I believe he does 3 or 4 batches a year or so, and the timing worked out well.

A couple new things to report on the Balck Car. Got the air cleaner decal from PB and it is proudly in place. These are great quality, thanks Pat. Also received the rear sway bar bushings and they look perfect. No one markets a correct rear bushing for WS6 suspension rear bars, but I saw here on the forum that Corvette bushings were an exact match. I found them at Eckler's Corvette listed as front sway bar bushings for 1968 on Corvettes. Here's a few pictures including one of the Eckler's receipt so you have a part number.

[RamAir]

Thanks, I ordered a pair. Btw, they're on sale now

[SD455DJ]

Awesome work Bob. You and Dave are just amazing. I wanna come over to your house and play with the cars (lol).

Dennis

[bird72]

Nice work and wow! Talk about alternative universes, You are doing perfection and I am hunting down parts with patina....

[Bentwheelbob]

Well, things are going kind of slow, but that's ok. Black Car is moving slow and I am not sure what other car Dave and I could disassemble if we finish all the Black Car parts well before the paint and body is done. Regardless, a little got done today - namely the A/C hoses, compressor fittings, and muffler. They look really good. I soaked the compressor fitting ( I'm sure it has a name, but I don't know it) in Evaporust and then cleaned it on the wire wheel and cleared it. The muffler got blasted and painted with Inline Tube Stainless Steel finish. The hoses are generic, but I used BrakeKleen to remove the markings. The muffler insulation is pipe insulation I bought from Zoro Tools that is dead nuts on, and much better than the crap piece I bought from The Parts Place.

The engine also has a new water pump that is the correct part number and pretty close in terms of the date code. Not perfect, but better with a April 19, 1971 date code for a Dec/Jan build car. I found it on eBay as an old NOS refurb unit, and OPH pulled it apart and installed new seals. He does great work.

Here's a few pictures.

[weranc55]

Ac stuff looks nice

[Norwood]

Everything looks nice.

[Formulabruce]

Lookin Good !!

[The Boss]

We all sound like broken records here.

[Bentwheelbob]

Continuing with the AC theme, the dryer has now been media blasted and refinished. I used OER low gloss black paint, and then took the soft wire wheel to the machined surface and brass around the sight glass. In the top five of essential tools IMO opinion is my pedestal grinder with course and fine wire wheels.

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by The Boss

We all sound like broken records here.

How about this for BWB =>