I looked at my new starter today and wished it would install itself.

Ah,ha, good day to Chevelle, now it has new rear suspension arms and shocks, as spare tire and wheel!
Im happy!

put the small block back in and hooked all back up

I went out to the shop and looked at mine but thats all I felt like doing ,maybe later.

Seems like all I ever do to mine is dust it off. Tane and I finally bought out the other two partners in our company so now I don't have a lot of spare time to tinker with or even drive the Chevelle. I said something to her the other night about possibly selling it but she thinks I will end up regretting that, she's probably right.
I just hate seeing all of that money sitting in the garage and not enjoying it.

Saturday was in the high 50's. I was dreaming all day about driving my car. Too bad it was just a pipe dream cause today will be back in the 30's with sleet and ice.

I did start my wish list for this year though.

Haven't uncovered mine for the last two months, Maybe today.

Got the oil pan welded up yesterday and then spent the remainder of the day cleaning up the Chevelle. Took all 4 wheels off the car, put it on jack stands and really cleaned everything up. Then decided to put the lighter wheels on.

Well today I was on the way to a cruse-in this morning when I blew the ring & pinion out of the rear-end.... The light turned green and I just eased into the throttle at first and then planted the pedal to the floor. The car shifted from 1st to 2nd at about 6200, and then the rear gear said no thanks. Guess it didn't appreciate the added traction of the ET Street Radials too much.

Had to get my ramp truck, but I still made it to the cruise-in!

Guess I am going to swap out the 3.42 for a 3.73 now.
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Nice combo set up. I need one of those trucks for my car. Beats a trailer.

I love this thing! I have all the stuff I need at the track in the storage boxes (jump box, air tank, inverter, jack & multiple stands, crate full of fluids & sprays, etc.) and while parking is not easy due to the length, it is much easier to back in and out of spots.

It's a Damn good thing you bought that roll back! What rear axle is under the car? 12 bolt?

Also glad I was only about 5 miles from home!

Has a 12 bolt (Eaton Posi, Moser Axles & Richmond 3.42 gear, 1350 billet yoke)

Summit's site is limited in doing a 3 series gear swap but I ended up ordering another Richmond gear, only this time it will be a 3.73 (now I can calibrate my speedo from a laptop!)

May I also suggest a girdle/support cover and axle tube braces. It's a heavy car with tons of torque.

I have an Eaton 4 series posi in my Chevelle with Strange 3.73 gears. I believe Strange offers 3.08, 3.42, 3.73, 4.10, etc for a 4 series carrier.

Eric ,sorry to read of your troubles with the rear end but the car looks killer on that truck .

Like one of these?
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Been on there the whole time to help keep those main caps in place.

The car has a 3 series carrier - could have gone to a 4.10 gear (and may have been the better choice given the probability of putting in a T56 in the next year) but the 3.73 should be a decent gear for the track & highway with the current combo.

Yeah, it wasn't the end of the world and agreed, the car combo is not bad to drive around and still looks good! I debated getting the ramp truck painted the same color but not sure it would really look that good. Also though about reversing it and doing Forest Green strips on a cowl hood. May just leave it alone.... I do know A/C is getting installed before this summer!!

Forest green stripes on a cowl hood would look good ,I have a connection at AMD if you need it ,he can save you some money.

I took the top down and took it cruisin today .

Those covers help, but I feel you are getting flex in the housing and axle tubes.

started putting my drive shaft together, went to put the slip yoke in and boom wrong size had to return it and order a new one, hope to have it in by weds so i can put it together and put it in so i can work on my exhaust :)

Put a couple of extra traps over the car so when I cut some plywood in the garage the dust will stay off it, Hate having it covered up for winter.

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To nice of a saturday to leave the car in the garage. Took it out for a drive today to blow a few cob webs off it.
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Time to finish up a few small items on the car this winter.
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Ray, your car looks beautiful. I still have a few things I need to get done on my car too. I was thinking about entering it into the world or wheels in march.

Thank you for your kind words. Looks like World of Wheels would be a fun show.

Im going to visit the Chevelle and El Camino in my shop tomorrow and decide what my first plan of attack will be . I really need to get a stereo system in Joan's vert and I ordered it today and will try to get it installed by her birthday which is February 7th .

Broke the spider gears in the rear carrier so all that was replaced - changed gear from 3.42 to a 3.73 since it needed replaced anyway. While it was apart went ahead and put on a rear disc kit (which turned out to be a bit of a PITA - Moser axles are marginally longer than stock and create fitment issues.)

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Tomorrow the bench seat comes out an my new TMI buckets go in (unfortunately the headrests are MIA but I can live with it for now) along with a console and staple/horseshoe shifter with modified gate!

Really hoping everything goes okay once I tear in tomorrow. Plan on starting early so hopefully all problems can be resolved by sun-down.

Sounds like a fun project ,good luck .

I bought a motor for mine. 454, 4-Bolt. Now just need the money to put it together.

I had big plans to get the interior out of the vert today but got called into work on 2 different tasks so it didnt happen.

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Valves adjusted, intake on for good carb bolted on fuel line in getting my fan clutch tomorrow install and see if I can start it soon

With all the rain we had last week all the salt was off the roads so yesterday I drove the 69 for around 45mins for the first time in months. Boy did it feel good! Not to mention how good it felt to hear and see all the complements and and thumbs ups and stories people were telling me about their old chevelles they used to have. Then after I washed her all up and back under the car cover in the garage she goes.

I took the complete interior out of Joan's convertible ,got the stereo out ,and then started reorganizing my shop .Then I got called into work again .

Me too.... wasn't very much fun either (although, I didn't get called in)

Thankfully it is mostly back together now though.

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While mine is out Im putting in a new stereo ,checking the convertible top system ,repairing the driver door latch and trying to figure out how to take the clock out and put tach in its place .

Eric...I'll stop in tomorrow @ Mo's to pick up that bench.

Clock should be very easy and the tach can be swapped in by only pulling the dash pad. Requires a flexible wrist to get to the two nuts holding the tach/blank plate in place but I was able to do one a few years ago without removing the dash carrier. Just an FYI.

Sounds like you have a nice list of things to work on.

No problem, they know about it. The seat & armrest pads are sitting (hopefully) out of the way.

Maybe it is just the feeling of something different but the bench was certainly more comfortable than the new buckets. Hope it works well for your wagon!

Wow, doing some work. Planning on racing the Malibu ? Is that the reason for the tach ? Oh...Joan is gonna race it.

Eric that is looking good.

What are you going to use for sound deadner?

Mine has the factory tar paper stuff along with ACC Mass Back (ethylene vinyl acetate 40mil thick.) It probably does not work quite as well as the heavy dynamat type products but it added $101.84 to the carpet bill and my interior guy absolutely hates working with it because the carpet is so think and takes so much longer to work into shape. I don't notice any heat or excess noise so I guess it does its job.

8 months later, and my carburetor has returned...

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I am quite happy with the results. :D