Steve, congratulations on your accruement! Must be nice to have both
the Dodge and Plymouth in 1964 vintage. And both as two door hard tops!
Are they both 383 motors?
Have fun and good luck with them!
Dave Bailey
'64 Dodge B-body 440, 2dr ht, 383 cid, 4 bbl
4 spd, '64 Sure-Grip rear axle, duel exh
ZZW - Anniversary Gold w/ white side sweep
In restoration to - as stock original (So far)
To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
From: micher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Fury update
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 01:01:32 -0600
Tonight we got some pics up on shutterfly--joining the Dudge Click on
the
link below my name below. It needs to be re-arranged as it starts off
with
the Dodge 1st pic.
I made room in the shop and got the Fury inside last week. Problem: It
would
not start but would fire when you let off the key, and sometimes when
it
fired it would start up. And then it ran fine. I don't care for the
electronic Mopar ignition( to many things that can go wrong. So I
eliminated
the orange box and put in a single points rebuilt distributo and got
rid of
a bunch of wires.Left the new looking MSD coil. Still wouldn't start.
Checked the ballast resistor and it had bright test light on both ends
WTF???? Then I learned that a ballast resistor doesn't drop voltage
until
it warms up. Wouldn't start. Then I found out that the hot wire to the
ballast was not hot when the engine was cranking. AH- HAA! Ran a
jumper from
the battery to the input side of the ballast, and BANG--it started
right up.
Ran pretty rough, but after a while the engine quit and would not
fire.?? I
had another good coil that did not need a ballast resistor and ran a
jumper
wire from the battery to the input sideof the coil.. That fixed the
quitting
problem, but it still ran rough. Checked over the REBUILT distributor
and
found that the points were barely opening. Set the gap at .16 and now
it
starts up right away and runs smooth Well smooth as the lumpy cam will
let
it!
Today I got a real surprise. Got it up in the air on jackstands to
check out
the underside. Despite the rust you see in the pics, there is no rust
in
the floors or inner rocker panels. I knew the frontend had been
re-built,
but I thought he told me they mads the headers, Nope, the headers are
good
with no clearancing dents in them and fit real well. May have an issue
with
removing the full size starter It has a driveshaft loop and adjustable
pinion snubber. Something is a little funkey with the rear axle
housing-
springs, That will need to be looked into. but it does have the big
finned
brakes on the back. I still have some things to do while it is up in
the
air, than when weather permits, I will move Ms. Fury to another dry
building
and get back to Brutus( 64 Dodge.) I will have an update on it in a
cuppla
weeks
List member Fred Pfaulp in AZ. fixed me up with most all of the Sport
Fury
emblems .etc. that I didn't have---Thanks Fred!
Later.................MO
{Steve Mick}
http://stevemick1964dodge.shutterfly.com/
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