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Old 10-15-2013, 07:28 PM
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This is basically where I'm at now. It has looked like this for about the last hour or two. But this is probably the state at which a lot of the work is going on.

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Right on bro-ham....
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Old 10-15-2013, 07:34 PM
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A couple of other things I did. I knew that the car wouldn't be running for a few days, so while it was still pretty warm, I broke all of my spark plugs loose. I've read so many horror stories about changing plugs, so I wanted to have the best chance of no issues. They all came out easy.

I used a Sawzall to cut the ears off of the alternator. Made pretty quick work of it.

I used some masking tape to cover all the open holes just to keep dirt, bolts, nuts, etc out of there.

There are a lot of clamps to work around. I'm using channel locks on most of them, but if you have a set of specialty clamp pliers, that would be better.
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Old 10-15-2013, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Sleeper_GT
Right on bro-ham....
I think you beat me done JJ.
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I use channel locks too....LOL
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Old 10-15-2013, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Sleeper_GT
I use channel locks too....LOL
Hey, whatever works right
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Old 10-15-2013, 08:16 PM
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Nice, good work so far. Hopefully while you are in there with everything apart you give it a nice cleaning under the hood lol. Can't wait until your impressions of first time driving with the new blower.
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Originally Posted by Zodiac
Nice, good work so far. Hopefully while you are in there with everything apart you give it a nice cleaning under the hood lol. Can't wait until your impressions of first time driving with the new blower.
Yeah, it was pretty filthy. Took the air hose to everything before I started.
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Lookin good Chris.
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Old 10-16-2013, 06:12 AM
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I would bust your ***** about the conditions under there but I know you live on a dirt road.

Install seems to be going well so far. I know you're going to have the perma-grin for a long time after you're done.
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