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