What did you do to your Maverick or Comet today

received my new painless wiring harness in the mail... got a trunk mounted version.

 

In the last couple days I have taken 20 three inch wheel studs off to get ready for new wheels and tires , replaced the idler arm , took the headers off to replace with some new Hooker 6901 ceramic coated ones .

 

Let me know if you have to modify those headers. I have a set waiting to go on mine as well.

 

It will be the third set of them that I have installed on different Mavericks and the only issue I have run into is hitting the pitman arm on complete right hand turn, if they were not ceramic coated I would just dimple them but not wanting to hit the coating I just live with it, not a big deal. Passenger side slips right in drivers side just undo motor mount and lift slightly no problem. Take spark plugs out first thing

 

went to pick up my rims and calipers from powdercoating.
looks like the clear went south in the oven so they will redo them tomorrow...

 

Wired up my Volvo fan and relay. Got distracted cleaning up other wiring in the engine bay and making new cables... will finish the fan wiring tomorrow lol.

 

Picked up a set of wheels today, I have trolled Craigslist for months looking for some 18s that could be used. I finally scored a set of FR500 knock offs, they were on a Mustang and the guy went with something new. The lips are a little pitted but easy enough to fix, picked them up for $300!

 

I had a set of regular old 6901's on mine. They actually looked fairly good when I removed them. I'm with you on not wanting to ding them.

 

while waiting on my rims I turned/painted the rotors and packed the wheel bearings...

 

While waiting for my tires took the time to repack wheel bearing, painted the drums installed new wheel studs. Noticed that I have a wheel brake cylinder seeping so I guess I better get one of those and new brake shoes. I should just bite the bullet and put disc brakes on it since it will not be a race car anymore.

It was really hard to work in the garage since today was one of those rare days that it wasnt raining in Oregon

 

Lol....it was raining in Portland all morning I think. I went slot car racing. I looked at my Comet today, and that was it.

 

I switched my Digi-Tails from standard to sequential, Then drove it to the bank and NPD...

 

Finished the Granada C4 shift cable install, installed new master cylinder, and bleed all the brakes. Throttle cable up next.

 

picked up my calipers today and installed them....
picked up my centers with the new decals...
also went by to check on my rims, he was blasting my rims for the third time, one of them is still splotching...

 

Hi Frank:
Looking forward to the pics of the centers .
Cometized
(Chip)