Progress Thread Progress Thread kinda stalled- looking to get it back going again!

Back to these rear calipers tonight. Got one completely apart, but this one old seal just doesn’t want to come out easy. I think it’s just a grease seal for the parking brake lever. I’ll hit it with the Dremel and wire wheel tomorrow to clean it up.
It’s interesting taking these things apart and seeing exactly how that parking brake works. Pretty simple design actually.
Ordered my rebuild kits/ seals from Rock Auto tonight. Hopefully have these like new pretty soon.

A little wire wheel this morning.

I’ve been looking at GT40 intakes for a while on eBay. I decided to throw a bid out, never expecting to win.
But I did, and here’s what I got.

I’ve paid, but it hasn’t shipped yet, but if it does, I got a real good deal. This is definitely a “down the road “ project, but at the price I got it, I couldn’t pass it up.

Expecting delivery tomorrow. Hoping it shows before I have to go to work at 2pm, so I can see if it was too good to be true.

So with a lot of patience, a lot of “watching” items, and a little luck. A gt40 upper and lower intake, and throttle body can be had for $100...... and that included shipping.
Yeah, it’s gonna need a lot of work and paint, but I enjoy that stuff, and it won’t be going on the car for a while anyway. Here it is:

I’ll make some quick garage art out of this first:

Starting to clean up nice!


And a base coat on the intake plaque

Got a new flex head for my rotary tool. Figured I’d tackle my worn hinge pins. Went through a few cutting discs, but I don’t really understand the horror stories about this job. It wasn’t that bad at all. Had the door supported on a jack and jack stands with towels..... had the wife steady it when I pulled it out to change the bushings, and back in it went. However, I do need to get the oversized pin and bushing for the bottom. It improved, but still has some sag.

I also never changed my broken tension spring when I had everything apart for the wire tuck (stupid, I know). So maybe tomorrow I’ll yank the wheel and inner fender and get that done. The stupid things, like this door just swinging, really annoy me after a while. And since I’ve been driving it a lot lately, I’ve noticed it a lot more.



Off from work this week.... nothing too major on the house to-do list..... so garage time it is!!

Got my rear calipers primed and painted today too!

Mustang5L5 said:

I’ll just leave this here lol.



Try and go the extra mile and cut off the nub and take a flap wheel to the various casting marks on the intake. Makes a big difference

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That’s beautiful!! I’m on my way. Nub is already cut off! I’m hoping to shape the lines like the nub was never even there... (we’ll see how that goes).

It’ll be some time before this goes on, so it’s going to look like new before it does!

Mustang5L5 said:

I’ll just leave this here lol.



Try and go the extra mile and cut off the nub and take a flap wheel to the various casting marks on the intake. Makes a big difference

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I guess it’s things like this that you’re referring to?