Draining the last of the old antifreeze – both sides. I hate working around antifreeze. It always seems to get spilled and it’s hard to cleanup and is sticky.
I’ll give the exhaust manifold bolts at least three soakings with penetrating oil before trying to get them off. I don’t want to have to take the heads off to get broken studs out. If they won’t come easily I’ll have to borrow or rent a torch set to help remove them.
Pretty well stripped out now. Friend Don will take it home to see if he can use the rear end.
I am tackling the cruise control transducer to see if it has any life left or is it all corroded inside.
First step is to bead blast the unit and get all the exterior corrosion off. Looks a whole lot better. Now to check the internals.
Happy day! The internals for the most part are excellent. I’ll need to take it all apart and clean off any corrosion. The circled part is the most corroded with a very tiny screw that is probably seized in the pot metal body.
Came apart fairly easily with only one screw breaking off. I cleaned up the contacts and started the re-assembly. The electric connector’s gasket on the top – right side in the photo – wouldn’t come off easily so I used a light coat of red gasket maker to do the job.
The cover on the bottom of the unit needed a replacement gasket which I made from a sheet of general purpose paper gasket I have on hand.
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