What have you done to your wagon lately? (Let's keep the thread going!)

Thanks, and yes that would be correct, thats my dads 62 Meteor. Has a 302 roller motor with efi and a t-5 behind it.

 

Gas tank removal

Yesterday I removed my leaky gas tank.
After cleaning it up it found 2 small rust holes
And the interior isa little rusty as well.
Funny thing though when I pulled the sending unit
It had no float , and it wasn't in the tank ?
I found a float and a pick up filter from a 67 mustang
At the Pull and pay and cleaned it up
There was black tar crap plugging the pick up tube.
But it's all good now.
I'm waiting for my gas tank repair / sealer kit to arrive
It's KBS it's supposed to be a good kit ?
I'll let you know how it works out
Last nite I brazed up the holes , and it appears to be leak free now !!

 

Today, my son took the Merc to the vo-tech, where he is learning to be a mechanic. He removed the chrome smoothies off the wagon and put the tires that were on those wheels onto the original finned aluminum wheels. While the wheels were off, he checked the brakes, and all is well there. It's ready for the road trip soon to its new owner.

 

Cool, and I thought so.... My second car was one, but a 221 V8, 3 on the tree....good memories and yet even in the early 80's.... nobody could drive it but me, no clue how to 3 "da" tree

 

I doubt many people today know how to drive a 3 on the tree. I learned a few summers ago, but still I doubt many others now a days know. 62s are always fun, the body roll is part of why its so fun in my opinion.

 

Finally got my springs in

Continued from http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=260980#post260980

I went to a rental garage and used their torch to soften things up a bit. It was difficult not to damage any neighboring parts and the ABS cabel was first to get crippled (A). (H) is the hanging brake caliper assembly:



Here are the springs upside down. Strange that they broke at nearly the same height. Most people end up cutting their springs, to lowride their cars. Mine did it by itself. The vehicle inspection bureau, however, didn't like it and made me change them. They would eventually have broken again by themselves:





I changed the first spring at the rental garage. They didn't have a modern compressor for struts. So, I ended up using the one for traditional springs. Because, it wasn't the proper tool, I had to use plenty of force and it cost time. Because of that, I constructed my own from threaded rod, a bicycle handlebar holder and a sawed-up aluminum alternator bracket from an Opel. I was scared of this thing, because it required plenty of force also. I had reverence for this thing, seeing how that 10 mm rod was bending:



At the garage where I changed the first spring, I did that exact side, because the bolt holding the strut to the spindle didn't break. That was a mammoth job getting that broken-off bolt out of there, at home. I had some idea of what it was like for little me to remove Goliath's wisdom tooth. I started with my 2 mm drilllbit and worked my way up, attempting to drill straight. As soon as the hole became large enough for my extractor, I tried that and didn't succeed the first time around. I then worked my way up and managed to get this out in halves from front and back. Of course, I ended up damaging the cast iron spindle and dulled my bits, because cast iron isn't that friendly:





I didn't get the bolt entirely removed, until I sledged the spindle off of the strut. The hole drilled in that plate, intended on securing the strut into the spindle, in case the bolt wasn't tightened to spec, tore open and had to get hammered back into shape:

 

This is what I've been up to lately...

New wheels and brakes

Front



Rear



Screwed it up



Fixed it as good as it gets for now...



New billet air cleaner lid to match the valve covers

 

Oh bummer man, I feel for you

Wheels look OMG awesome but sorry for..... I won't even ask

 

What a great looking ride! Love the wheel choice ... sorry to see the damage.

 

Hey, "wood is good"!
Nice wheels by the way. I don't think I have ever said that about any other modern wheels either.....

 

That coming soon always seems to take forever . I just went thru that .

 

No need to. It's always the wife's fault. Isn't it ?
So what. That's only in the rear. What's important is what's in front. Especially with that engine which should be a prerequisite. Anyone caught replacing it with a smallblock should be punished

 

Usually even when it isn't...

 

This morning, it is indeed her fault, Maam . She's taking up space, right now, in the kitchen while I'm waiting to go in there to brew my morning espresso. My withdrawl symptoms are so bad that I have to use the "quote" mode to copy and paste my image links into an adress bar to see my images posted here.
I rummaged through my toybox and got out an axle from some French moped. I sawed it to size. Then, I got out the tap & die set to cut 11 mm x 1.5 mm threads on the end which is supposed to screw into the ones damaged. I then drilled and tapped out what looks like a lugnut to counter the new bolt, securing it from loosening up. The fine-threaded nuts on the other side were already part of the axle assembly and probably from others. I figure, I could trust this modification, because it originated as a vehicle part and it's not made in India or China. It weighs a little more. But, running the car on only one new brake pad on each side should compensate for the extra sprung weight which is, in my opinion, way to heavy, as if this spindle is shared with light trucks or maybe even Lincolns:

 

Can anyone see Hanswurst's images?
I don't even see a "Red X" or "This image has bee moved" errors...