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Re: '66 Malibu N/SA
You need a washer and a longer spring. Somebody sold a kit back in the time before time.
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Re: '66 Malibu N/SA
You just chop the wire thing off where the spring hooks to it and use the same spring.
Toss the adjuster ,and run the bottom spring from shoe to shoe, across the star wheel. Like the price of doing it that way.
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07-05-2015, 07:42 PM | #43 |
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Ah, I understand. Probably one of these days I'll do that. But there's a ton of stuff above it on my to-do list.
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07-27-2015, 05:19 PM | #44 |
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It's amazing how many hours I can spend on bodywork with very little visual impact to show for it. But things have been moving along on this project.
I think I'm finally just about done with the patch panel on the left quarter: I've also started fabricating the back firewall. Template made and transferred to sheet steel, which has now been trimmed. And here's the third piece getting a test fitting: Finally, I've started on the ignition and other wiring. here's the plate that will mount the main components: The terminal strips will have all the connections out where I can get to them easily for emergency repairs. That's a bit of paranoia I picked up a few years back when my ignition switch locked up in the staging lanes at Las Vegas. Fortunately it was running and I was being called out to the water box, so I was okay for the moment. But when I got back to my pit space I had to kill the fuel pump and wait for it to run out of gas. Then I had to dig into the factory wiring harness. I've let myself get distracted enough, now it's time to get back to body work. So it'll likely be a few weeks before there's anything new worth looking at. Last edited by Dave Muller; 07-07-2017 at 09:55 PM. |
07-27-2015, 05:46 PM | #45 |
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Re: '66 Malibu N/SA
Dave I agree with the hours spent on body work just to make the car "allright" With my build of my 1965 Impala I am not a professional body guy so had to work slower. Since it is just a race car and not a show car I just did the best i can do. I cant afford to have someone else paint my car, that money has to go into other race parts!
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Re: '66 Malibu N/SA
You might have some misfire issues with that coil so close to the MSD box...I tried that myself years ago and it did not like it.
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Hmmm... Well, it could always go on the other side of the firewall. Or just higher up on the inside, there's some room to spare in that area.
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That is what I ended up doing. The plate was mounted in the passenger floorboard and I moved the coil to the engine bay firewall.
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Re: '66 Malibu N/SA
Rich, What was the specific problem ?
I've built several cars that way. Maybe the digital deal won't do it, whatever it was.
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