Fixes over winter : Oct 2001 - March 2002

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The rumbling vibration felt on the highway was due to a warped driveshaft. This is a new custom built piece from Dynamic Shaft in Scarborough. |
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Unfortunately I dont have pictures of what else I did, but what happened was the vibration caused the rear tranny yoke seal to burst off. Along with spewing fluid over the highway, I deduced that the problem must be the shaftf. I vaguely remember the old tranny also being shot to hell, and just never paused to question why. Anyways, thats the culperite.
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The warped driveshaft also killed the old diff bearings, so I had the dealer rebuild it. They also did a tune up and adjust the tranny throttle so it shifted nice. I think the previous owners were trying to drive this car into the ground.
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With the rumbling problem solved, I tackled the overheating problem. I originally was going to build a fan shroud, but on second thought it was easier to bolt on an electric fan. I put on a 2100cfm 9A jobber, 17", using the existing wire I ran for a rainy day. I didnt want to bolt it directly to the rad. The instructions call for that, but I think thats stupid, so instead I welded, and bent some 1" flat stock into my own mounting bracket. The bracket also acts as a shroud, thus placing the rad flush against the rad without attaching to it. It works well.
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With the fan in place, I needed to fix the tem guage which flaked out on occasion. I didnt want to buy a new guage 'cause it was expensive and besides, I wanna do the whol dash one day anyway,, so I set out for a cheapo solution. There was an instrument cluster in the garage from a 1985 Ford Econoline, and the instruments were a dead match! I couldnt believe it. So anyways, for anyone out there the instruments from a Ford Econoline are a direct replacement in size and funnctionality for a 68 Charger!
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Also fixed the oil sensor. I found out that the Charger originally had a oil senser meter, not light. But the engine was from a new-yorker, so it had the oil sensor for the light. The local parts jobber obviously had no clue, so I blindly orderd a replacement for what I had. I only figured out later that the correct one was obviously different than the one I had. Anyways, it was an expensive lesson, but I figured that out.
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Oh yeah, the alternator. The f!@#$en thing wasnt working. It was killing the battery slowly, thats why it was better some days than others, because of the self-refreshing ability of lead-acid batteries. Anyhow I had baught the self-exciting one which is crap. So I replaced it with the standard Delco DC-10, and just had to figure out how to hook it up. Anyways its easy so if anyone wants to know, write me.
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