Author: PursuitSpecial

Broken door handle repair

The door handles on the later c bodies are super fragile, mine broke on the thin little die cast arm that actuates the latch linkage after the latch seized up from sitting over 20 years. I ordered one from eBay but I decided to try and fix the old one….

R body wipers

I’d really like to get the wipers working on my Gran Fury so I can drive it without worrying about the weather, but the wiper blades are some obscure trico thing that I don’t think can be easily replaced. It looks like it requires inserts. I’ve got some inserts for it but they’re old and probably not the best, I’d rather convert it to a more readily available set where the whole arm is replaced. The linkage is also messed up, someone took the linkage off of the motor and didn’t put it back…

Read more

Fuel gauge repair

The fuel gauge has been acting up in my gran fury, it will stop working for a while and I took the gauge bezel off and wiggle it around and it goes to working again. Recently it stopped working altogether, I measured the continuity and there is none. I…

Glowing Red Catalyst

I got home tonight and opened my hood to check on the engine and the entire engine bay was bathed in glowing red light from the pre-catalyst thing under the exhaust manifold. The actual catalytic converter itself has been removed but I left the pre-cat or whatever it is in place. For some reason it’s getting insanely hot, I don’t think it’s stopped up because the car doesn’t drive any different than normal and has the power you’d expect from a slant 6. The car doesn’t act stupidly rich or…

Read more

New Aspen Leaf Springs

The original left side leaf spring on my Aspen had about fully de-arched and was making the ride height uneven, so I put some new springs on it. I went with these: 1976 – 1990 Chrslyer, Dodge, Plymouth rear leaf spring, 5 leaf
The car is remarkably we…

Non AC Heater Core

It’s about time to replace my heater core in my aspen, when I turn on my defroster it’s fogging up my windows with antifreeze-smelling steam and there’s moisture in the heater box. The car doesn’t have air conditioning and all the non-ac cores for sale…

Cheap slant six radiator alternative

It was about time to change my radiator, it hasn’t been touched since 1980 and it developed a leak, so I went shopping for radiators and the only one guaranteed as a direct fit was over $250 on rock auto. Being somewhat of a miser, I found a dirt cheap…