Whats ya all do to the charger this weekend?

[70charginglizard]

I relocated my aftermarket tach from the steering column to under the ash tray
Fixed the headliner in the back sail panel area's. Lost points on that last year! 
Repainted the steering column where the after marker tach dug into the paint.

So what you all do?

only a couple months till car show season... Better get on it. 

[WM23N1]

I looked out my back window to make sure they were still there.

[694spdRT]

A couple months? The snow might be here until May. 

I pushed it about a foot or two forward in the shop to make some more room....that was about it. 

I do need to do a few things before spring, I just have not got to them yet. 

[genlee1970]

I started it up and let it run for an hour or so, then sat in it and wished it were April instead of January. Was cool to hear the Flowmasters rattling the windows of my house for an hour, all the way from the garage. Hope the neighbors felt the same way!!!!

[jaak]

nothing unfortunately  I've been sick as a dog the last couple of days.

[derailed]

Actually went out and fired it up, backed it out of the garage and let it run for about a half hour but that was about it.

[plum500]

Finally started to work on it!... tested out my new compressor and air tools -- took the passenger door and fender off... doing the other side...trunk and hood this coming weekend!

[TruckDriver]

Nothin' but took a socket wrench and turned the engine over a few times to keep it from seizing up on me.

[hemigeno]

I got to drop my daughter off at a basketball tournament on Saturday morning, about an hour away.  Cruized around a while, 120 miles total.  Was wondering why the car was running a little rough, came back home and discovered that the #7 spark plug wire had blown itself halfway out of the spark plug tube.  Guess it wasn't getting too much spark in that hole...

[Rolling_Thunder]

took her out to try and settle this backfiring issue...   didnt solve it so i took her for a little drive just to run through the gears some... 

[694spdRT]

I got to drop my daughter off at a basketball tournament on Saturday morning, about an hour away.  Cruized around a while, 120 miles total.  Was wondering why the car was running a little rough, came back home and discovered that the #7 spark plug wire had blown itself halfway out of the spark plug tube.  Guess it wasn't getting too much spark in that hole...

Do they spread much road salt down in your area Gene? The snow is mostly gone here right now and the roads are clear. However, I washed my truck before a trip to Madison, WI and still picked up a bunch of dry salt. Not cool if it were one of the "classics".

BTW: The 440HP in my car ran for 47,000 miles on 7 cylinders in a '69 Chrysler 300. The original owner pullled it out to rebuild it and found intake pushrod laying on the head where someone had set it at the factory before putting the valve covers on. He could never figure out why it did not have the power the '68 440 had that he traded in on it. 

Ty

[Silver R/T]

umm just thought what i wanna do first when I get garage...while it still sits out in weather

[TK73]

Drove th sh!t out of it... 

[kab69440]

Went and fetched a hood to play with. Bought a crap load of gator-style vinyl at JoAnn Fabrics off the clearance table. 13 yards and change came out to less than 32 bucks! Score!

[Todd Wilson]

Which Charger?     



Todd

[Ghoste]

Walked right past it on my way to get the snow shovel out of the garage.

[69_500]

Walked past the 500 on the way out of the house each morning, and back passed it each night.



I am back to looking for a job once again, as the small company I went to, decided they can't afford to expand at this time. So I don't think I'll be doing anything with the 500 for a few more months. I was going to change the water pump this winter.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Not a dang thing....cover is on & battery is out and on the battery tender.

Too cold out there (even though it was 50º yesterday!)

I dont touch the car till April........

[bill440rt]

Not a dang thing....cover is on & battery is out and on the battery tender.

Too cold out there (even though it was 50º yesterday!)

I dont touch the car till April........

Sounds like my plan, too!!!

I did work on my '69 dash though for the current project, in the basement. Starting putting the dash assembly back together. Got the dash about 75% completed now. Did the white-face gauge thingy with orange needles. Looking real nice! Just need to put the faceplates and front pads on, and connect the wires to the gauges.

[smasherofall]

I took my cluster out this w/e also to do the gauge faces. I bought the decal kit at the last Indy swap meet last year. Looked to be very nice, and I didn't think there were more than a couple people making them, boy was I mistaken    First thing I did was drop the gauge assembly when I was trying to get of the car (no interior) and broke a corner off the face plate  then when I was trying to pull the needle off the speedometer, the little plastic bushing in the back broke and the shaft came unsprung rendering it completely useless  , luckilly I have a spare cluster. Next, the decals don't fit correctly, no notches for the rivets and they didn't cut the hole out for the odometer  and also it has the wrong temp gauge decal, I need the one where the safe area is offset to the right, the good sets apparently come with both styles. needless to say this all spread out on my kitchen table still...................................

[hemigeno]

Do they spread much road salt down in your area Gene? The snow is mostly gone here right now and the roads are clear. However, I washed my truck before a trip to Madison, WI and still picked up a bunch of dry salt. Not cool if it were one of the "classics".

BTW: The 440HP in my car ran for 47,000 miles on 7 cylinders in a '69 Chrysler 300. The original owner pullled it out to rebuild it and found intake pushrod laying on the head where someone had set it at the factory before putting the valve covers on. He could never figure out why it did not have the power the '68 440 had that he traded in on it. 

Ty

Ty,
They have sprayed a brine solution on the roads, but just on the overpasses and bridges where icing might be more of a problem.  We haven't had much snow, so they haven't had the need to put much in the way of salt or calcium chloride on the bigger portion of the roads.  The county I live in and the cities around here are too poor to use salt, so they almost always just use cinders.  Those make more of a mess, but don't affect sheet metal as much.  The state highway department is who slathers on the nasty stuff.  There's only a small amount left on the roads right now, and today's rain will take care of that.

My R/T was a factory undercoat car, so it's caked up pretty good underneath.  Perhaps I rely on that a little too much, but it's too hard to walk by the car in the garage all winter without taking it out on nice days.

[viper r/t]

Monday makes a year that I've had it. Might be going to buy a cake.

[PocketThunder]

Gonna finish cleaning up the garage to make room.. because..... my 68 comes back from the body shop all painted next week!! F-N-A!! BABY!!!

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Gonna finish cleaning up the garage to make room.. because..... my 68 comes back from the body shop all painted next week!! F-N-A!! BABY!!!

You know what to do when it arrives right???

[Shakey]

Nothing this past weekend however this coming weekend the restored grille and the re-chromed front bumper get installed, if all goes as planned.

[PocketThunder]

Gonna finish cleaning up the garage to make room.. because..... my 68 comes back from the body shop all painted next week!! F-N-A!! BABY!!!

You know what to do when it arrives right???

whoaaa yaaa...  click..click...

[bsakal]

I straightened up the garage so I can work on it, then started to disassamble the 383, only got the heads off so far....

[41husk]

All I did was start it, back it out of the garage and let it run for about 25 minutes and pulled it back in.  However, The exhaust was installed on the Challenger and I refinished the Challenger grill.  Slowly but surely! Troy, next time you visit, you won't even recognizer.  If all goes well you may be able to drive either the Charger or Challenger to the cruize.  I hate being the passenger!!

[ChargerRob]

Took it to work this last Friday, then I cruised it saturday night in Hollywood on Sunset Drive. 

No plans this coming weekend.

[69_500]

I do plan on getting it out of the garage this weekend though just to wipe it off, and fire it up and let it run for a little while. Maybe check to see if any new leaks have worked their way through.

[jgbailey57]

aired up the front tires, charged the battery, and started to rearrange the garage so i can get it back in this coming weekend.

[dd44068]

Well for myself i never put it away had it out last weekend for a while. When i get a chance and weather permits it comes out. For things to do to it I have a bunch of little things the question is where to start.