Thread: 68 pontiac lemans convertible

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after another year decided to remove the vintique air con unit that the jap owner had fitted (why???? in a convert??) and put an original heater/blower back in.



you can see the extra holes drilled in to the firewall unit to let the aircon hoses go thru!


new 2ndhand unit fitted along with associated inside unit.




also around the same time fitted a new performer manifold instead of the old one with a 2-4 barrel adapter

after another few years driving it most days ,where the only things i did was replace balljoints and then had too do front a-arm bushes where i found a broken front coil spring so got a local spring maker too make up new set and fitted them.


you can see broken coil between my fingers.

more driving until while on a family trip to tauranga coming down onto a bridge at speed, the lowered front caught up with us and it bottomed out and split the sump next to the sump plug dumping oil on the road and neccessitating a couple of hours in a local garage using a borrowed hoist and some knead it to get it good enough for us to drive it home.
this was a blessing in disguise as it had been leaking over the garage floor from a rearmain seal for ages and i had been putting it off for years so decided out with mtr to fix sump and replace rear rope seal.i also had a set of headers i had bought awhile ago to fit as well.this shouldn't take long!!!!!!!!!!!!
took the motor out in june last year ready to have it back on road for summer(dec onwards)----yeah na





the new manifold was looking real old so sent it off for acid washing

pulled the sump and welded it up and dropped the crank out to do the rear rope seal as we couldn't force it around in place.spot of luck here!!! the bearings were just worn thru into the copper on a couple of mains and one rod so decided to replace all them.left the heads and pistons alone as they looked fine from the bottom and i had enough on my plate without worrying about a full rebuild.time will tell wether that was agood decision!!!




this rubber grommet for the pcv in the valley cover was heat-hardened an i couldnt find another one so welded a washer in there to fit a smaller more common chev one

also painted in the engine bay with some black rattle cans and found some 15"ralleys/ caps and new tyres and fitted them.
painted the mtr pontiac blue an refitted it.

and now we are up to date!!!!!!!
missed summer altogether!!!!!!
i rebuilt the distributor-points worn out and vacuum advance was seized,bought some alloy valve covers and am picking up the 600 holley this afternoon after having it cleaned and rekitted.
hopefully back on the road soon!