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How far North? I know a shop in Villa Park

The end of the cable has a rectangular slot on it. It might reach I haven’t actually tried it just seems short. I’ll try to run it up to the carb while I’m working on it this weekend

So the tool and seal come tomorrow. That was just part of the story of why I was under there. I’m looking to see where the kickdown cable attaches. It seems to be about a foot too short to go to the drivers side of the carb

My ‘70 350/350 has a trans leak. Went under and found the shifter seal leaking. $14 from Amazon with the tool 👍 While I was looking for the leak I noticed on the passenger side that the kickdown cable is connected to the trans but the top end is swinging in the breeze. Where does the other end connect to?

Well I got the exhaust finished Sunday and it sounds amazing! Went for a drive and the trans shifted perfectly. Hopefully it stays that way. Next step is to replace the headlights and look into the dash light wiring. I’ve been a mechanic for 20 years so none of this is new to me. Also the Mitchell program at work has all the wiring diagrams so that’s cool

Thanks I’ve only had it a few weeks but I love this car. As for gear ratio I forgot to count the teeth when I was in there so I might have to do the wheel/driveshaft count method. The red control arms were already there. Eventually I’ll paint them black 👍

It’s just the tip at the end, I just need to round it out to make it circular again.

I hope so too. Need to rent a pipe expander tomorrow to finish the exhaust. The h pipe was dented a bit on one end so the pipe won’t slip in 🙄 once that is fixed I can drive it and hope for the best. A rebuilt is only like $1600 so it’s not too bad but I’d rather not have to replace it

And yeah all that material in the trans pan does not look good. If the trans takes a crap on me I’ll throw another one in 👍 thanks for the advice everyone. Mc1of80 sorry I got my panties in a knot 😂

Yeah I know what he was saying. Telling me there’s no way it was clean fluid put me off a bit, I saw it with my own eyes I know what it looked like. No worries on my end.

Oh ok thanks for correcting me. I must not know what I’m talking about.

It had multiple grooves in it, and a really deep one near the outside edge

My grandmothers maiden name was Sorge and she had a brother named Roger…. Weird

Last thing I got to before I started to lose daylight and energy to keep working was replacing the drivers front brakes. Again the rotor was grooved so someone did a pad slap on a damaged rotor. Not the ideal way to make this repair. I replaced the pads and rotor and cleaned and repacked the bearings. Tomorrow will be the passenger side brakes, both front shocks, and an oil change. Then it’s Flowmaster time 😁

Moving forward I had noticed the trans pan leaking so I dropped it and changed the filter. Here is a tip for everyone, if your trans pan bolts are all finger tight it’s going to leak…. Whoever had this car should not be touching cars. Anyway the pan was just as bad as the rear diff cover, but the fluid was nice and clean…. So someone dropped the pan but didn’t bother to clean it? No idea. Anyway it’s clean now and back in 👍