1967 Family Patrol Project

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Postby moore_rb » Tue Oct 03, 2017 8:53 pm

114...?

Bah- You're a lightweight. I eat 114 for breakfast. :twisted:

Tires look great
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White 65 Hardtop L60-3-00617 (undergoing restoration)
Red 65 hardtop 4L60-002565 (scrapped for parts)
66 Hardtop "El-Bondo Patrol", L60-00511 (Restored, then sold June2020)
Blue 67 Hardtop (sold March1997)
Green 62 Softtop L60-2-00504 (undergoing restoration)
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Postby L60Boerne » Wed Oct 04, 2017 10:20 am

You will love those tires, I drive over mesquite thorns every weekend with them, long lasting too.
Well done.
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Postby faux40 » Mon Oct 16, 2017 2:26 pm

No pictures, but exciting news -- Joe got to drive the Patrol to High School today (this is a one-off thing... he's won't get to drive it to school very often ;-)) -- He's was pretty surprised that I suggested it!

On another note, I'm toying with lightening up my Patrol load... I've been reading all about the Swedish Death Cleaning trend. I'm so buried in Patrols and parts its tough to get anything done! I'm thinking that if I were to reduce to a single Patrol and a few spare parts, I'd be able to make more progress... I suffer from the too many projects, too little time disorder...
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Postby RiverPatrol » Tue Oct 17, 2017 10:27 am

I TOTALLY understand. :D
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Postby faux40 » Wed May 02, 2018 10:12 pm

Howdy All! You're fair weather patroller... Well, perhaps just silly busy patroller. Joe is 17 and driving regularly now -- He was just 12 or so when we got the patrol
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Circa 2013. Joe's in the middle, Barritt's on the left, Jay on the right

Anyway, he likes to take the patrol to Track practice a couple times a week. I think he gets car-cred at high school for it! Anyway, when he got home and parked it, and lake Valdez formed. Dang!
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Everything under the hood is protected from corrosion now... there is oil everywhere! Its all quite shiny!

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Here's Lake Valdez

I think the nylon tubing for the oil pressure gauge is the culprit. Either the tubing itself, or the at the fitting. Where ever, it was a fountain! I haven't pulled it apart yet, but at least there is a little left in the crankcase, so that is good. I may have time tomorrow afternoon or Saturday to check. Fingers crossed!

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Postby Flaggoni » Thu May 03, 2018 7:10 am

Those nylon oil lines are time-delay bombs! Glad to hear there’s no engine damage.
Your post should be a warning to anybody that has those lines to replace them with 1/8 copper and compression fittings.
(Same size as the vent lines to the waterproof distributor)
I’ve seen the nylon ones break under the dash also...Ruins your clothes, interior, and mood all at once.
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Postby Esteban » Thu May 03, 2018 7:15 am

faux40 wrote:...
Everything under the hood is protected from corrosion now... there is oil everywhere! Its all quite shiny!

I think the nylon tubing for the oil pressure gauge is the culprit. Either the tubing itself, or the at the fitting. Where ever, it was a fountain! I haven't pulled it apart yet, but at least there is a little left in the crankcase, so that is good. I may have time tomorrow afternoon or Saturday to check. Fingers crossed!

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You were very lucky! Years ago I didn't have the same luck with another Patrol that I used to own. The plastic tubing broke and all the oil went out, until the crankshaft seized. This was going on the highway at steady 50 mph. I have added a second oil pressure gauge just to make sure everything was ok since I bought that Patrol used. After that episode, I changed to copper tubing as Flaggoni suggests, and fitted a sensor for an alarm and the end of the tubing, right at the gauge.
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Postby faux40 » Thu May 03, 2018 8:58 am

I'm going to remove the secondary gauge all together. I think this is where an idiot light excels! One might miss a gauge heading to zero, but the light would be harder to miss!
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Postby RiverPatrol » Thu May 03, 2018 9:07 am

That is THE main reason I never use or recommend a manual oil gauge.

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Postby Johnny Roadkill » Thu May 03, 2018 6:35 pm

RiverPatrol wrote:That is THE main reason I never use or recommend a manual oil gauge.


Rats, all that beautifully restored engine bay covered in yuk...good thing the P motor holds 1.21 Gigalitres of oil in the sump !

Copper lines would be the fix, personally I'm a fan of the gauge - saved my 510 motor years ago, was on the gas up a winding road the day I fitted the gauge and saw the needle turning south...the oil filter seal blew out and the gauge saved the motor.

Just my 2 cents...
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