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Yayyyyyy!!!

Scrap angle iron……zip ties……Equals brake switch installed!

Ok……front upper/lower control arm bushings and grease cups replaced….I had built this suspension 15-18 years ago and the rubber was dry rotted. This seemed the right time to replace….. I put some flat paint on my recessed firewall, control arms and a few other pieces and it is an improvement...

Put the new flex plate and new starter on last night……had plugs out and spun engine over to check fit. Starter to flex plate looked good but I noticed the plate did not spin true, sorta wobbled. Compared area where it ran away from starter and it was also same area where teeth were damaged on...

New glass/seals/window tracks are ordered. Since I built this front end about……16 years ago(had to pull off my boots to count that high)……I noticed the upper/lower control arm bushings were rotting…..so replacements are on the way also…. Goal is to drive it with my buddies cars from the farm to...

New flex plate installed…..

No……radiator doghouse, both front fenders must come off and the transmission will be coming out too. It’s really not that bad…. I have done it enough to be quite efficient. Biggest issue is having to pull transmission cooler lines off the transmission because they must come with the radiator…..

Something else I have thought about….. If I ever need to run a mini-starter…..there is enough meat on the base to have a blind hole drilled to use it for a pin to help support the starter…..may need to have the existing outer hole tig welded to support the pin hole ……just a thought…… 3 points of...

Well…..I received the starter and it would not fit……pin fit the rear hole and bolt lined up with the outside bolt but the inside bolt was 3/8” inside the starter hole. The shop put a new nose on the starter using the offset pattern and refunded the difference. I was disappointed but the new...

When I get my starter I will take pics and report if it helps.

He also told me to carefully inspect the outside starter hole for cracks….he said after the offset bolt pattern starters were available and the pin was no used that the torque was hard on the outer bolt and because it was on that area of block it could eventually crack……he said he had seen many...

I will take an extra starter bolt and measure the offset hole depth and the depth of the blind hole on the starter to make my pin.

I went to an old school starter/alternator repair shop in Ft.Worth today to search out knowledge..…the man had it…… 3 bolt holes in the bottom of the 409 block at the starter are not used as I thought…. He brought up a cast iron starter nose cone for this application…..he said Chevys had the...

Today was a first…..took the coupe down my local FM road to town and got some gas….first time on the road. Transmission works great…..GPS had me at 60mph and 409 was turning 1100rpm. Went to come home and the starter acted up again….had to borrow a screwdriver to turn the flexplate maybe 1/2”...

Thank you.!