Finally got this vehicle back on the road. I eye-ligned the front end and took it to Crown King this past weekend without major issues. Found out that I have a 25% under-reporting speedometer now, due to the KM-148 swap, 33" tires and the old 3.9 gears. An indicated 60 mph means I'm really doing 75! And at 72 mph, I'm only turning 2750 RPM. I'll have to address this eventually, and I have a set of gears laying around here somewhere.

At some point on the way back, the shift linkage came unbolted and something flew away (haven't looked at it yet), so it sits in drive outside. The oil pan leaks pretty regularly, and I have a transmission leak from somewhere. The a/c isn't hooked up. But it tracks really nicely, the brakes are smooth and every thing we put in seems to have tightened it up well.

One pretty much down, more to go.

John B.


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