426 HEMI Restoration - Looking for assembly pictures

[thebinki]

Hi, All,

We are restoring to nearly stock condition a 1971 Charger 426 HEMI in Houston, TX. It is a complete restoration with every part removed, cleaned and now being reassembled. When we got it some years ago, it was already partially disassembled and we had no pictures and many missing parts. We have some disassembly photos, but many areas are not covered. As we put it together using the chassis manual, body manual, online searches, videos, our pictures, etc., we are missing many of the small details. This includes things like clamp placement (was it up or down, which hole did it use, how many clamps, etc.), line routing, brackets and such. For example, we are installing these lines but are not 100% sure how the go and the manuals don't really show it. See the included pic.

Does anyone in the Houston area have a stock(ish) Gen 3 B-Body Charger who would be open to allowing us to take a pictures, etc. probably for a day. We can come to you or you can stop into our shop.

Does anyone have a large collection of images of essentially "everything" we could get? Particularly wheel wells, subframe, fuel line routing and clamps, etc. We can take old photos and digitize them for you too.

Any thoughts are welcome. Thank you.

[AKcharger]

Welcome thebinki! I'm sure you'll find what you need here.

P.S. I've never seen ANY tubing routed through a wheel well like that

[thebinki]

Hi. Thanks for managing this great resource. We found a few "gas tank" shots on Bring a Trailer and they show the lines wrapping under the frame. Sadly, there are no side or inner wheel well or behind the tank or fuel feed/sender shots. We have a lot of the parts, chassis, etc. books, but none are clear on this area. Going by what feels right. Hopefully someone seeing this will be able to help. ~Gary

[hemi68charger]

Hi. Thanks for managing this great resource. We found a few "gas tank" shots on Bring a Trailer and they show the lines wrapping under the frame. Sadly, there are no side or inner wheel well or behind the tank or fuel feed/sender shots. We have a lot of the parts, chassis, etc. books, but none are clear on this area. Going by what feels right. Hopefully someone seeing this will be able to help. ~Gary

Gary.

you going to be at the shop next Friday? I am supposed to meet Jeff there.. I am assuming this is Jeff's car? Not too many Butterscotch 71 Hemi Charger R/T's running around...... This is Troy, his friend in the local area who's been helping him...... Bringing over the proper Federal pump over to him for this car...

Troy

[AKcharger]

I have a '72 Rallye, pretty mush stock. if you get stuck let me know

[thebinki]

Hi, Troy. Yes, I am in the shop Friday. Hope to meet you then. Thanks for reaching out.

Gary

Hi. Thanks for managing this great resource. We found a few "gas tank" shots on Bring a Trailer and they show the lines wrapping under the frame. Sadly, there are no side or inner wheel well or behind the tank or fuel feed/sender shots. We have a lot of the parts, chassis, etc. books, but none are clear on this area. Going by what feels right. Hopefully someone seeing this will be able to help. ~Gary

Gary.

you going to be at the shop next Friday? I am supposed to meet Jeff there.. I am assuming this is Jeff's car? Not too many Butterscotch 71 Hemi Charger R/T's running around...... This is Troy, his friend in the local area who's been helping him...... Bringing over the proper Federal pump over to him for this car...

Troy

[v21hemicharger]

Just a thought since you're in the south.  It may be worthwhile to visit Tim Welbourne's museum in Alabama  http://www.wellbornmusclecarmuseum.com/visit-wmm
He has the most 71 B-body hemi collection and would probably share a bunch of knowledge.  Mike