The heads

I cleaned the head today pulled the valves and checked clearances, this is a good head well maintained all within specs. fter some research the pitting on the cam is not an unusual thing ,seems it happens often and as long as it is on the backside, mine is, there is no issue. The problem seems to have been in the head gasket ,it was leaking aitfreeze past the holddown bolts and also an intake leak after the carb intake in the manifold. all this bares out based on how the engine was running. This created a lot of back pressure and blew my rear seal out at 5k RPM I still have to repair the seal. so the drive shaft comes out and since im down there anyway lets look at the clutch plate. FUN<FUN<FUN

Prep and paint for 2014

If you have never painted a car before,like me ,you can read all you want but until you do it you wont appreciate how hard it really is.

First safety gear. The paint suit lasted about half way through before it tore. The safety glasses didn't work at all because they fogged up fast and then of course the reg glasses also got trashed. When you take them off don't leave them in the paint booth ,mine where covered with over spray, not good.
The compressor I borrowed was still not big enough and had a hard time giving me continues volume .That is the first important item when painting or the flow will vary and so will your paint job. the second is use the water separator, I bought one and used it for the primer and first coat ,but was unable to maintain the pressure at the gun so i bypassed it for the final 2 coats to bring up the pressure, it did but it also developed a large amount of condensation . Now I have water droplets on fresh paint that i have to deal with.
This was a good learning process for me . As for the paint ,it went very well, follow the instructions careful and set aside a few hours without interruption and all will go well.
The pictures and videos are processing now and will upload as soon as they are done.

After the paint

Its time to sand the paint job down with 1200 grit ,polish it with compound ,oxidizer, and then polish , all with buffer at a variable speed. This takes time . Hand sanding is the best because you get the feel of everything you touch, but it takes time. The tail ,hood and first rear quarter panel too 4 hours to do. This will give you an idea as to the time the hole car will take . Its worth it because it takes care of all the screw ups that you did during painting.

Handle and lock repair

A minor correction on the door handle video, On the lock tumbler the small spring is placed on each side of the tab under load. I did not discover this until i took another one apart that had not been tampered with before. The little retaining tab over the spring will then sit in between the spring tabs . Its a bit confusing to explain but when you do it you will know what i mean. Also the right side handle had the outside latch cam in the wrong position. When i rebuilt it I accidentally used the left side cam and i could not open the door from the outside.
I was annoying because I had already put all the door panel back.

The engine

I tore down the engine because it was not running right ,no power and I had an air intake leak in the old webber carbs. I have a fresh set that i plan to use. This engine has been redine once a long time ago. So here is what i found

 this is what it looked like when i got it it wasnt running

Over the years we did put it together and as you saw in the earlier videos i did get it to run, but never well

When i pulled the valve cover the cam shaft was pitted. The clearances where all over the place and the timing marks where off also.

The lower section revieled some cooling leakage over the years, but the head gasket was not blown and the cylenders held fuel when i poured some in. This is a good sign that the rings are still tight and I may not have to do the lower end completely I did blow the rear seal out so it has to come out anyway.

As you can see the water jackets where all swollen and in one case partially blocking the cooling chamber

The old webbers were not on the engine very tight . I think that air was leaking past them and causing the realy craizy uncontrollable engine running no matter what i did. All the seals where dried out on them but the throttle body valves still worked  well. They will be overhauled and then IL decide what to do with them.

So this is where we are

The body and most of the inside is done.
We have a fresh paint job. The only thing left is the seats , top and the carpet.