Re: Henry's 55 Constellation

Posted by Cli55er On 2012/11/5 10:48:16

here is the weekend update.

felt cut out and put in the rotor mount on the distributor. hope that works.

the lower bellhousing was a total PITA to get on. even tried a jack under it and using the weight of the motor...which only resulted in the rubber seperating on the trans mount. glad it happened now instead of later....fyi it was the original rubber...i was being cheap and it looked good to the naked eye....just goes to show...i may not be good even if it looks okay. glad i got my balancer redone now after that

anyways after many trips to Lowes for the correct bolts etc, i got it all put together and got the starter in. granted with longer bolts then needed for the starter, but i wasn't taking another trip to Lowes. i made it work. lol

hooked up the batter and turned her over a few times....it went smoothly and no noises out of the norm. so that mean i did a good job i suppose. we'll see with the thing actually runs.

starting the generator rebuild now and i have a rotor coming and spark plug wires. correct AC radiator cap too.

fan belts were from O'reilly's for 5 bucks each and the quality looks good to me.

trans is dripping form a few of the drain plugs. hope that goes away when i get everyting buttoned up nicely. lets hope.

and don't worry i'll touch up the paint on the sides of the lower bellhousing. had to brush off some paint to get the thing to go together and that was collateral damage, but easily fixed.
Hank

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