Hey,
Thank you both very much, this SHO site never ceases to amaze me...I think the first thing I'll do it just try cranking on the bolt lightly to see if it moves at all, I think I'm pretty good about sensing give on rusted things,,.or at least a little better each year, if it won't move or feels wrong, I'll do the under carpet check. I went under and felt above the arm and the upper part of the bushing is there and doesn't feel torn or broken or..So ...hopefully spoken...maybe it has just backed itself out...Rusty stuff is always a crap shoot, it's worth a try just to see if it'll move. The interior of the car if very good and doesn't look like water ever got in, and the floor pan underneath was at some point undercoated with something that has been gone for not too long, but it doesn't look as bad under there as two of my other cars. It'll probably be later in the week that I get around to checking..we've got three more weeks of school and then freedom.
PS.- the radiator went in very well and again although there was lots of rust, I got it done with no other damage and now it just purrs. Temp sensor is shot, but I did that on ginger (the one on the intake manifold) and it wasn't a bad job all in all, so I'll do that and put on hood supports which of course are shot. I think brakes are gonna need work, although they do work....wait!!! I'm talking as if I'm keeping this damn car, this was supposed to be parted out after swiping the tranny with Bob...But honestly, I can't do it myself at my age and putting a grand into that car doesn't make any sense. Besides, I figured out how to keep it in gear when I let out the clutch, ya just have to push firmly against the shifter so it doesn't slip back. It seems that it just falls out of first with the clutch in, so if I hold it against the gear position, it stays in a works fine after that, So, I'm gonna just put up with it, It does pick up very fast though, I can feel the difference the 8 lb flywheel makes I think. I just won't do the exterior body work on Sylvia, Just drive it around as my beater SHO, and then the others that I did all the wheel wells and such can just stay pretty and out of the weather. At 20 bucks a month, it's worth it to store a car, rather than lose the 3k I put into them. My kids will have a ball someday laughing at what a kook their dad was.
I just noticed something else, on the side with the backed out bolt, why is there that big flat washer between the bolt and the bottom of the bushing, it's not like that on the other side and my memory from ginger's rebuild under there is that there isn't an extra flat washer...uh oh...maybe this area has been 're-done" by someone with a bad idea to fix something that went wrong?? I wonder if someone took the bolt out and then cross threaded it or something....why would they add that 4-5" diameter washer>?
We'll see soon enough I guess
