Re: A Tale of Two Patricians
Posted by Packard Don On 2018/3/3 19:39:48
Made another try to free up the shifter without total disassembly but no luck so far. I couldn't get the pin of the sliding piece to budge, partially because the car is rather high up on stands but I did put more PB Blaster into the oil hole, and also tilted up the upper column bit where the shift lever goes and added quite a bit there so we'll see if any of it can work its way down into the mechanism. It's going to have to come out and apart anyway but right now I just want to try to free it up as it is.
After that I moved over to the parts car which is 99% complete and missing only the radiator and air cleaner although many parts are off as I started the disassembly years ago. It was a mess inside so I scraped off as much as I could and, while I've not yet done the entire front floor and the seat frame is still installed, I see no signs of rust at all. Although both have good bodies, the one on the running car has had body work while the parts car has not, and the parts car also has power windows that I want to have so ultimately this body will go onto the running chassis.
For those who follow such things, both of these cars have matching body and vehicle numbers with the parts car being a higher number than the other.
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After that I moved over to the parts car which is 99% complete and missing only the radiator and air cleaner although many parts are off as I started the disassembly years ago. It was a mess inside so I scraped off as much as I could and, while I've not yet done the entire front floor and the seat frame is still installed, I see no signs of rust at all. Although both have good bodies, the one on the running car has had body work while the parts car has not, and the parts car also has power windows that I want to have so ultimately this body will go onto the running chassis.
For those who follow such things, both of these cars have matching body and vehicle numbers with the parts car being a higher number than the other.
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