Re: Howie's 1971 Chevelle

by hp77skylark July 15th 2010, 5:07 pm

It went good. Everything back together. Thanks a bunch Steve, Butch Jimmy and Cory you guys did me a big favor thanks again. Only one problem, i had to just drive one to many times last night and the flipping exhaust fell off of it. May just be a hanger but my family car curse continues!!

by RebStew July 15th 2010, 5:11 pm

Did it fall from the back, front or where?

by hp77skylark July 15th 2010, 5:12 pm

Back where the pipe goes over the rear end. It was to dark to see last night going out here in a bit to look.

by RebStew July 15th 2010, 5:19 pm

If you can get it wired up enough to get it down here we can put a hanger on it tonight. I'm going to put the sway bar back on my Bird and tighten up the PS belt and then the garage will be free. Should not take me too long. I'll be out there after 6:30 tonight working.

by hp77skylark July 15th 2010, 5:27 pm

Cool.

by hp77skylark July 16th 2010, 10:15 pm

Turned out to be a bolt had fallen out of the hanger and let it drop down. New bolt in see ya under the bridge later.

by hp77skylark September 4th 2010, 12:06 am

The parts have started coming in, so hopefully it will some be fixed. no more nasty knocking rods.

by jbs10 September 4th 2010, 3:37 am

did u get it out yet,,,,,

by hp77skylark September 4th 2010, 3:57 am

nope. gonna drive around to back yard and start to tear it down saturday.

by RebStew September 15th 2010, 6:02 am

Did you start yanking the engine yet?

by hp77skylark September 15th 2010, 6:07 am

Not yet guess i'm gonna have to start doing on the street the have somebody show up with hoist yank it out then drag the car around back so the cops dont show up.

by RebStew September 15th 2010, 6:16 am

I need to yank mine out to. Get it ready and I'll grab the cherry picker from johnny when my back gets better and we will yank your before I drag the cherry picker back in my garage. MAy be a week or so to get my back, back in line.

by hp77skylark September 15th 2010, 6:23 am

Sounds like a plan. This weekend i will get down to the short block yank it out and get up to Joe garage he said he would do the tranny while it was apart too.

by Admin September 29th 2010, 5:32 pm

I hear the Chevy is in the west in of Newport. When are you going to pull the engine??

by 69 cuda September 29th 2010, 5:41 pm

yes it in my lot i think he is waiting on me i doing some work around the house hope to be done and get to helping howie out this weekend

by Admin September 29th 2010, 5:55 pm

69 cuda wrote:yes it in my lot i think he is waiting on me i doing some work around the house hope to be done and get to helping howie out this weekend

He can get a head start.. Very Happy

Wouldn't take long to get her out..

by hp77skylark September 29th 2010, 6:20 pm

Was gonna go down tomorrow to start on it as long as it was cool with Mike to be down there.

by RebStew September 29th 2010, 6:22 pm

He won't know. If he comes out just jump the fence and come up to the garage. lol

by hp77skylark September 29th 2010, 6:32 pm

lol. Just didn't want him to get a call from someone saying people are down there takung his car apart.

by hp77skylark September 29th 2010, 6:37 pm

Joe told me he would come down during the day and help get it ready to come out or all the way out.

by magicman_1968 September 30th 2010, 6:15 am

I should be down there around 11:30 or 12:00....

by RebStew September 30th 2010, 10:19 am

I'll be out running around noon. If I get a few minutes I'll try to swing by for a few and pull some bolts out.

by hp77skylark October 1st 2010, 5:02 am

Got the motor out all tore down ready to go to machine shop. cheers

The bad news though is the cam was trashed. Mad

Hopefully it will be up and running in the next couple of weeks.

by Cratethis October 1st 2010, 5:05 am

Cool! One step at a time

by Z-YOU October 1st 2010, 5:39 am

hp77skylark wrote:Got the motor out all tore down ready to go to machine shop. The bad news though is the cam was trashed. Hopefully it will be up and running in the next couple of weeks.

That was quick.

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