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The air housing didn't clear the valve cover.
Someone fixed that problem. What a shame.
"Goosenecks" are rare (used only in 1957.)
We can't fix this.
I have a good spare I will swap and
this one will go to the display engine.
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This air filter housing is held on by a Phillips screw.
A wing nut is the proper fastener.
We can fix this.
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The carb to carb line should be a one piece hose.
MoPar Pro has them (FU-1030).
The rear carb fuel line fitting should be a 90 degree brass.
This is a correct fuel line installation.
The stove pipe line from the exhaust manifold should be connected to
the rear carb choke, not to the fuel line.
We can fix this.
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The rubber gasket from the heater housing to the blower
motor should either be sized so it fits the junction
or secured with RTV. It should not have a hose clamp.
We can fix this.
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The AC compressor is missing two braces.
This is what it should have.
If we can find parts, we will fix.
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Three power window switches have this 1960 style.
We will find correct switches and swap in.
The master switch is the correct 1957 style.
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These are not the correct springs for throttle return.
Correct springs are available from A&A Transmissions
among other places. We will get correct and swap in.
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These are the correct springs for throttle return but
did you notice the carb to carb link.
It is backwards
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Thise is the correct link position. You run
off the rear carb until the slot bottoms out.
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Surprised to find the heater distribution box missing.
Surprised to find I had a spare one in the warehouse.
This is what it looks like.
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The belts are wrong, some grooves on some pulleys
are not being used.
I think this is because a single
groove generator
pulley is in place.
The generator tag says it is an AC generator.
Maybe all I need is a two groove pulley.
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This is the wiring under the dash.
A new wiring harness is available from
Rhode Island Wiring or YnZ.
I expect we will need it.
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The windshield washer bag "Jiffy Jet"
is located in the wrong place and
is the wrong style. Here is correct:
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This is a picture of the gooseneck support
on the passenger side.
It is missing along with the support
for the driver side.
We will either make new or find used.
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It is unusual to find a grab handle here.
A bigger problem is the hole in the
glove box door hidden by the lower left badge.
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The rear package shelf was damaged and
modified with the trunk
AC unit was installed.
Originally it would have had a rear speaker and rear defogger.
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The passenger wiper arm does not move with
the driver's. I removed the motor and found the driven arms had walked off the drive shaft. See the nut?
"They" put a 1/4-20 on a shaft threaded to 1/4-28. Nothing would tighten with the wrong thread nut and parts pulled away.
And while working on the wiper system, "they" left off the retaining clip on the driver side arm.
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Some call this "dum dum". It is a flexible, gummy, sticky
material sometimes used as weather seal. This is one of 3 clumps I pulled out. "They" used it to secure
the trunk cardboard (ruined that), and they used it to bind wires together under the dash. If you don't remove
every trace of it, you will get it on your hands, your tools, your clothes. It won't come off with anything less
than brake-clean. If you want to punish the next guy that works on your car, use this stuff.
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There are two dome light lenses on these cars. Originals are too brittle to
work with. New replacements are available on Ebay for $50/each.
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Chasing cut wires under the dash, I came across
a bundle under the passenger side carpet. I pulled the carpet to find the foot well filled with
expandable foam. I don't know why it was there. I chipped it out to find nice solid floors. The wire bundle
was for the trunk air conditioner but had already been cut and was removed.
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When removing the power seat motor,
the easiest thing is to disconnect the feed at the kick panel and pull the wire under
the carpet. This wire wouldn't move. Raising the carpet revealed another dose
of spray foam on the driver side. The foam prevented the wire from moving.
There were nice solid floors under the foam.
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How are these pictures different?
One of them does not have the vacuum
tank for the brake booster system. Such an important thing to forget to reinstall.
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I had trouble with the horn blowing when it shouldn't. The Nylon bushings
are missing. They reassembled with washers under the screws and it didn't work.
$14.95 fixed the problem.
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More problems with the wiper motor. A close look shows the wires have been
damaged. I have spares but they are newer and might not interchange. We will see.
There are places that repair wiper motors if need be.
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