time to clean up this MESS !

[rav440]

well this is not even near NADs Not A Duster's Most Excellent Progress DEMON resto .
but it will take time & $$ and more time & $$$ depending on my state of mind and cash flow
i have lived with this MESS under the hood for 5 years , so i guess the JACK INCIDENT may have been kid ofa blessing . when i would goto cruises all my buddys could open their hoods ,, mine always stayed SHUT or i opened it but kept it way low , just so somebody could see the 440 .
but this summer ill be able to open the hood and be proud of the road runner . :dance:



what is this box on the firewall next to the ballast resistor ? VOLTAGE REGULATOR ? it looks like leaked some black goo from it at some time . thats what im guessing its from . anyway i dont think its good . what would cause that ?

 

[rav440]

:bravo:

 

[XLR8R]

Looks like an easy clean! I have never seen one of those leak....interesting.

 

[rav440]

:toot:

 

[beeper*71]

Yup, that's the voltage regulator. Oozing black goo is not good, I'd replace it when you put it all back together.

 

[mopar_man]

mine always stayed SHUT

I feel your pain. The underhood of my car isn't anything to write home about either but I'm going to wait to do it when I do the rest of the car (whenever that'll be).

 

[68R/T]

What's with the blue paint in the engine bay?:hmmm:

 

[rav440]

What's with the blue paint in the engine bay?:hmmm:

:hmmm: ill have to look into that :hmmm:



:looky:










the original color was GB5 True Blue Metallic then some ugly red then black the black again . the engine bay is only the start of this . i have to redo rhwe door jambs , under side of the rockers " look like they were never painted " front valance , the trunk . and a few other hidden places that wernt painted black correctly .

 

[Fishy]

the original color was GB5 True Blue Metallic then some ugly red then black the black again . the engine bay is only the start of this . i have to redo rhwe door jambs , under side of the rockers " look like they were never painted " front valance , the trunk . and a few other hidden places that wernt painted black correctly .

Say it with me folks....SNOWBALL!!!!!!!! Looking forward to the resto Rav!! :bravo:

 

[a12bee]

I thought you were hot to sell this? Looks in pretty good shape, you'll have it all shined up in no time.

 

[rav440]

I thought you were hot to sell this? Looks in pretty good shape, you'll have it all shined up in no time.

:bwuhaha: yep i was . then the jack thing happened :doh:

 

[dustergal]

Say it with me folks....SNOWBALL!!!!!!!! Looking forward to the resto Rav!! :bravo:

SNOWBALL SNOWBALL...let's see, while I'm here I might as well do this, and this, and this....

good luck! :dance:

 

[OrphanedV8s]

Looks like an easy clean! I have never seen one of those leak....interesting.

I have but mine was the ECM on the 82 Dodge Van!:hmmm:

 

[rav440]

SNOWBALL SNOWBALL...let's see, while I'm here I might as well do this, and this, and this....

good luck! :dance:

:bwuhaha: yep that could very well happen :bwuhaha:

 

[rav440]

well its been over a month and i havent gotten very far at all :doh: but i have to give a big THANK YOU to ROB R :bravo: got me to thinking aboot what dirrection i want to go with the motor and has been a great help :bravo: :bravo: :bravo:

i planned on just throwing a paint job on the 440 and maybe add a cam well that all changed . i found that my heads were 213 motor home heads . so i got a set of 452s that im going to have done .

in my other posts aboot my crank shaft , ROB spotted that i have .030 forged pistons and told me to take a head off so i could get a pic to him of the pistons at top dead center . i guess the original owned had a bit of $$$ put into the 440 back in the 80s .
so i finally got to get back to work on it today after aboot 3+weeks away from it its almost ready for paint . after a bit more cleaning .

 

[beeper*71]

Looking great! :clap:

 

[Rob R]

Everybody likes pictures...bring on the pictures

 

[BootHead]

damn that work looks familiar (except for the paint, paint don't make you go faster) were the guides cut on those MH heads? where did you pick up the car? history?

 

[rav440]

damn that work looks familiar (except for the paint, paint don't make you go faster) were the guides cut on those MH heads? where did you pick up the car? history?

BOOTHEAD , what do you mean the work looks familiar ? HISTORY of the rr ,,,,it was in HONOLULU HI . all its life the original owner "who is the only one to ever did anything to the 440 " donated it to his church in the mid 1990s then a kid in the army bought it at a church auction , in 1999 the kid had it shipped it over to CLEVELAND OH. then in 2000 sold it to a guy who deals in MOPARs from MEDINA OH . " AL " is his first name . he had it repainted and striped then i bought the rr in may of 2001 .
i finally tracked down the kid " MATT " and called him to ask aboot the history of the rr ,, he knew nothing ,, just drove it and nothing else . last year i got ahold of the original owner " ERIC " from what he recalls the only thing he had done was bored it .030 over and put a cam in he knows nothing about any machine work being done . :huh: here are a few pics of the 213 MH heads .

FOR MORE PHOTOS OF THE RUNNER goto

www.photobucket.com

login : rav440
password : rr73blackbird

:bravo:

 

[XLR8R]

Looks great, Randy!!