1966 Plymouth Fury 3

[oxb1l]

Car sounds awesome 👌 

My mum's old Fury and her 64 Comet Caliente back when I was a kid.

My dads Victor estate.

Probably all washing machines by now.

[hairnet]

Victor oof

[PhilA]

Just ordered the brake master distribution block, next up need to get some fittings and brake pipe. I do have flexis for this somewhere, but no telling if they're correct.

 

Phil

[Crackers]

That is one meaty idle.

[PhilA]

1 hour ago, Crackers said:

That is one meaty idle.

Well, it is a 5.2 so I'd expect so, really

[PhilA]

Beat this to shape and welded it in.

Figured I needed to get back to some bodywork.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Didn't do much other than wrangle a broken light bulb out of a rusty socket today.

Ain't much but it needed doing 

[PhilA]

Bought some pieces.

Brake pipe one of seven.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Added another.

All just hand tools. The die bender has been particularly useful.

Those should be the most complex shapes now; the rest are all just big long straight runs.

Phil

[PhilA]

Hard freeze coming. No antifreeze in the Plymouth.

Winterizing in progress...

Done. Can't freeze if there's nothing in it.

 

Phil

[2flags]

9 hours ago, PhilA said:

Hard freeze coming. No antifreeze in the Plymouth.

Winterizing in progress...

Done. Can't freeze if there's nothing in it.

 

Phil

Did this one year, drained the rad rather than put antifreeze in. [I was a poor teenager] Water pump froze. Had to walk to work. Didn't crack the block fortunately. Put antifreeze in after that.

[PhilA]

13 hours ago, 2flags said:

Did this one year, drained the rad rather than put antifreeze in. [I was a poor teenager] Water pump froze. Had to walk to work. Didn't crack the block fortunately. Put antifreeze in after that.

Yeah, that's no fun. The block is fully drained also. Tonight we shouldn't see too much but tomorrow night is supposed to be windy and cold, that's going to be the problem.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Ran it to boiling with dishwashing soap in.

Drained, flushed.

Worked very well. Need to get some proper antifreeze now.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Green juice!

That'll hopefully stunt the formation of new corrosion.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Well, where were we?

 

Oh yes. All the coolant fell out because it cleaned some rust away which was all that was left of a core plug. I bought a core plug set. Need to pull the engine out to fit those. At the same time I might get a seal set for the gearbox.

Also welded up a couple holes in the trunk.

Not much else to report.

 

Phil

[mercedade]

Great to see you back updating Phil, hope all has been well

[PhilA]

On 22/03/2024 at 05:29, mercedade said:

Great to see you back updating Phil, hope all has been well

Just took a bit of a sabbatical from the computer. Life is beginning to return to normal around the house after three years so that's good, at least.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

🤘

[PhilA]

Uh. I moved the car to the other side of the driveway and charged the battery.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Any updates on this one? 

[PhilA]

Yeah, got back to it after one of my kids backed her friend's pickup truck into the front of it. That pissed me off and I just parked out on the other side of the yard. 

Got it running again, now properly on 8 cylinders (it'll light a one tire fire if you stamp the gas), moved it to the house, cleaned it up a bit because the inside had turned green. 

Started on the bodywork again.

Welded a patch where there was a hole. Need to grind that down. Welds are messy because it was getting dark. 

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Cleaned the welds up. 

 

[Jenson Velcro]

It’s nice to see you making progress with this again. I don’t envy you the repair to the window aperture though. It looks like a lot of tight curves and lips.

[PhilA]

Started shaping a new piece for the lower corner. 

Not quite there yet but it's pretty good. 

 

Phil

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, Jenson Velcro said:

It’s nice to see you making progress with this again. I don’t envy you the repair to the window aperture though. It looks like a lot of tight curves and lips.

with all the mad electrics he does 

dont think melting metal will be a problem

[PhilA]

23 minutes ago, hairnet said:

with all the mad electrics he does 

dont think melting metal will be a problem

Electronics is easier than metalwork.

[hairnet]

yeah but yall still got skillz

[PhilA]

38 minutes ago, hairnet said:

yeah but yall still got skillz

Fake it 'til you make it.

[hairnet]

mad brizzle guy holdin a waffle iron solder iron not fake

[hairnet]

oh sorry d and d malt