Convertible body flexing too much with out the frame under it. So they mounted the frame tot he body and will paint it together, Not separately like I thought.
I picked up the engine from storage and finished bolting everything on it. I am not sure if I will drop it off like this or pull the stuff hanging off, off of it to make it easier to install.
I have never had this engine fully assembled and did not have a lot of the accessory components.
The power setting set up was a pain to source correctly. The brackets are hard to source and quite expensive. The belts are also had to figure out.
So on the tempest assembly manual it shows the set up one way and the gto restoration guide show the setup yet another way. On power steering cars with out ac non tripower... the belts are exact replicas of one another. Your power steering pulley and alternator pulley are double groves and both groves go around the crank, water pump, alternator, and power steering pump according to the tempest manual. Then there are 2 top brackets for the alternator.
On the resoration guide it shows the alternator with single pulley and power steering pump with single pulley.
Then the 1st belt goes crank , water pump, alternator, and second belt goes crank , water pump, power steering pump.
Power steering pump was a pint to find at a reasonable price. And a lot of them had the new resiviour. I winded up buying a used resivour and just seating the new pump into it. I am just hoping the seals dont leak. A proper cap for that pump have asking prices of 40 dollars. That power steering pump pulley have asking prices of 60 dollars. the t bracket is like 35 dollars. Also the 2 belts where they cross were very close to rubbing. So the power steering pump was shimmed out about 1/8th of an inch. I think it will be ok now. I need a dipstick and at this point will probably just get a Mr. Gasket one. Also the oil breater and oil filler caps are extremely expensive for what they are. Anyone else doing it should find the valve covers that only have 1 hole. These covers both had holes and then there is a plug for the passenger side one. I have been some that have a pipe going to the air cleaner but by air cleaner does not have a hole for the insert. So I figured to just put a breather right off the valve cover. Not sure how or if it will even effect performance.
I will build a custom wooden stand for it this week and bold up the torque converter and transmission to it so it can be dropped in as a single unit.
I know the alternator pulley is not supposed to be black. But after sand blasting it looked terrible so I went ahead and had it powder coated with he rest of the pulleys.
I really want to just get this thing back together