What did you do to your Maverick or Comet today

from the exhaust to the trans pan?

i took out my motor to hammer the fire wall to fit my exhaust in, in doing so i must of dinged my trans dipstick and cracked my pan cause all my fluid is now on my garage floor and aparently a C4 pan filled transmission pan is the rarest thing in CNY lol cause i've looked high and low and their out of stock or don't sell them, oh well thanks ebay motors lol got to love it.

 

todays update

I went to the sand blasting/powder coating shop today to bug them about the parts being done and seen this .........


cool I got a pic of them like that! he said the parts will be done today but I dont know...... he closes in an hour and no phone call yet.
I saw this when I pulled up and though I WANT THAT TO BE MY COLOR! then after a quick conversation with the guy thats actually going to be doing the coating he told me that this is going to be the color burgundy Im getting YES! cant wait to see the parts installed

 

Lets tear down!!

We pulled the drivers door, the seats, the carpet and started pulling up the sound deadener. Found a rust hole under the passenger side that will require a pretty big patch panel replacement. Pulled the stereo out also. This was our first day of work on the resto for this car. Now looking to order carpet online and going to find some cheap seats locally and fabricate brackets for buckets. Have a line on a full set of seats out of an '05 Honda for less than $50. Worth a try at that price. We have the passenger door off and I have replacement doors ready to go on. Lots of body work left to do for rust. Pictures to come...

 

well we are back to a big fat 0 for fuel pressure...
relocating the pump...

after doing some more checking I found the...pump...not working. it would start at 9 PSI and slowly drop to 0 PSI...
got a new pump, will install it today...

 

Cleaned a bit, tuned a bit and painted my rocker panels under the car. Getting there!

 

Took the bumpers off and put the gas tank back on. Started her up for the first time in a few months. Can't wait to

 

I think the fuel pump deal is done...started doing a little cleaning under the hood...

 

put it inside. All of our "weather" is leaving puddles in the floorboard. Looks like I'll be putting that windshield rubber in sooner than later.

 

I finally fixed the gap in my drivers side window that's been there since I bought the car lol.

 

Loaded the 70 in the trailer today. Leaving for Somerset at 7 A.M. tomorrow morning.

 

spray painted the face plated to the dash and found that the housing for the speedo is all dried up. it broke when I was holding it trying to wipe off all of the years of dust

 

what type of fuel pump were you using?


put another seat of headers in - and then took them out to try a new pair saturday.

 

Gave it a pat on the roof as I walked by it. Busy this week. Went to see Nickleback last night and scored tickets for Iron Maiden and Alice Cooper on Friday the 13th. Back to the Molson amphitheatre tomorrow. Cant wait to c Maiden.

 

I looked at it sitting all lowered from all the parts I threw in it to take to the Gathering, hope it will make it on the trailer Guess we will find out tomorrow

 

Have a safe trip and send lots of pictures back for us guys who aren't able to be there.