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Okay, it's been over a year since I even blogged about my caddy. I need MOTIVATION to get it back together.
So here's the short story, you can catch the details in my blog posts about the car.
I bought a '67 Sedan Deville back in June 2009, at the time it appeared to "only" need a replacement water pump in order for me to be able to drive it and repair/restore it as I went along. In fact, I was so sure that it was going to be a fairly frequent driver that I bought wheels and tires to put on it.
Not long after that, I replaced the water pump and had the Caddy idling in the driveway. Punching the throttle to get it off of high idle, the throttle stuck.. I was able to get the pedal off of the floor before the engine rev'd to death, but immediately following that, I heard a distinct "clunking" sound from the engine.
Many weeks and diagnostic steps later, I finally pulled the engine to find a washer folded up inside the #8 cylinder.
More time passed, I got the transmission rebuilt, reassembled the engine with some vital new parts. That brings us up to when I stopped blogging, and started to lose steam. That's where you all come in.
I did manage to get the engine all back together and buttoned up with some new parts (timing set, water pump, spark plugs, rebuilt carb) and even took the heads to the machine shop intending to have hardened seats installed. As it turns out, the heads have already had this treatment. That evidence, combined with the overall condition of the engine internals, and the markings on the connecting rods and main caps, leads me to believe that this was a recently rebuilt or overhauled motor.
So I've got an assembled (newish) motor, a rebuilt trans, and (almost) all of the parts I need to put it back together. But I'm stuck..
I just can't find the time (or motivation to make the time) to get out there and work on the car. I really want to clean up the engine compartment before I put everything back in but everytime I look at it I feel overwhelmed.
*whew*
Okay, enough of all of that.
The plan is to pull the front clip apart a bit to get it cleaned up, remove the inoperable AC and heater bits (I'll be replacing it with Vintage Air stuff eventually), paint everything, and clean up the wiring harness with some split loom.
Now that I've put it out there, and you've all read it, I HAVE to do it, right? Right..
Stay tuned here for updates, I SWEAR I am gonna get this thing back on the road!