[Amc-list] 65 Rambler Stuff

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The list is slow so I'll post my progress or lack of it on the 65 Rambler.  My goal is to get this car out of the back yard and back on the road by the end of September.  Like Dr. Phil says a goal has a schedule and dates and a dream is just a dream.   So I have a goal.

I have been cleaning and painting the engine compartment.  I'm using the Ford trick of semi-gloss black because this originally light blue car had a dark blue cheap (read Mexicali, I think) repaint several years ago.  The engine compartment was not masked off so the car has that overspray dark-into-light look.  It looks a lot better in solid black and my Lancelot Turquoise engine should look great in contrast.  I removed the master cylinder last weekend and naturally twisted off the brake lines at the master cylinder fittings.  Kroil let me down this time.  So I bought short brake lines with the proper fittings and will use brake unions to mate the old lines to the new.  At least that's the plan. I'll do my own flares on the old lines.  Wish me luck.

The damaged crankshaft is at the machine shop.  I've heard nothing from the machinist in the last couple of days but he thought he could file off the damage to the rod journal when he first looked at it. 

I need to pull the heater box tonight and bead blast and paint the blower motor.  Same for the wiper motor (vacuum motor) that came off earlier.  I'll probably need to replace the foam gaskets on the heater core and box.  Kudos to Matt for getting the 67-later gaskets made at DMT.  I may try to use a set of that material since the 64-66 gaskets are reportedly not ready yet.  

I'll be painting engine accessories too and try to be ready to reassemble the engine when the crankshaft comes back from the shop.  

BTW I saw a Scout 800 in the local junkyard this weekend and it has the exact same brake master cylinder as my 65 Rambler. 

Joe Fulton
Salinas, CA
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