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It has been some time but I have been able to continue to pluck away at the car. We werent able to get the paintless dent repair guy in, but we were able to finish sanding the car and get the car to a body shop to get the body smoothed out and primed. The body came out very well.

This past weekend I had a bunch of help from family, friends and my father in-law to get the car painted. It came out very well!

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I couldnt find out how to do it in mine

Sorry to hear that, I enjoyed following along

Well the caribbean came back for Ross! He did some great work! I will have to say the suspension never worked that good.

It makes noises I am not use too. I have maybe only driven this car 6 times in my life, so I believe I just need more wheel time to get acquainted with it.

This weekend I went back to the parents place and got some work done on the car. A lot was going on but I was able to get that crank pulley spacer thing figured out and that pulley torqued on.

I am using a ford thunderbird fuel pump that also has a vacuum pump on there. I installed hose barbs into the ports using some thread sealant that is good for gasoline.

Installed the radiator, upper and lower hoses, fan, and generator belt.

I spray bombed the body in hopes of getting a paintless dent repair guy out there to remove some dings before we paint in October (hopefully).

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That is awesome! thank you so much!!

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What motors did you use? and can you post a picture of the wiring diagram please?

I have been scratching my head as what to do with the kick down switch for the overdrive. The fiber backing was split and didnt want that to cause any issues with that system not engaging. I tried a couple things but was never happy with what I ultimately came up with, so I designed something in SolidWorks and 3D printed it. The screws are 6-32 that had the OD of the head trimmed to a similar diameter of the rivets that were initially used. I just nut and bolted them to the "L" bracket connectors.

I was able to get a little of time on the car otherwise. I installed the starter and generator, adjusted the rear brakes and parking brake, installed the OD relay, kickdown switch, horn relay, voltage regulator, and the front light junction blocks.

I attempted to install the A/C crank pulley. The damper was already installed and torqued down to what the FSM says, so I can only assume that piece was on as far as it goes. But for what ever reason when the A/C pulley is installed it was not contacting the front of the crank shaft, which when it comes to a bolted joint torqued to 150 ft-lbs thats a problem. I feel at that torque I run the issue of damaging the expensive and rare A/C pulley. So the only way around this I was able to think of is machine a washer with the OD of the crank (so it fits inside the damper), the ID machined to the diameter of the crank bolt with the appropriate thickness so that the back of the A/C pulley butts up to more than just air. Because according to the FSM these pulleys should just be bumped off once that bolt is removed. After torquing the bolt to 60 ft-lbs I needed a puller to ease the a/c pulley out of the damper.

If I can get that pulley on, the radiator fan and belts can go on. Adding fluids then the car should be able to be fired!

I was looking at these old carter fuel filters at the carb. Is there anything that should secure that sintered filter up to the gasket inside the glass bowl? how do you clean those filters?

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Good Luck!

Thanks for sharing. I am also getting a 56 Patrician ready for the road. My thread is also in this project section. I have a lot farther to go than you but looks like you got a good place to start!