Happy Spring, Kidz... I am sure everybody's looking forward to even MORE expensive gasoline. Surely the old adage, "you get what you pay for", will apply here too, no?
1980 Bobcat glassback, stock 2.3, 47K miles.... TWO questions....
1.) STEERING COLUMN u-joint coupling (I'll try to attach photo, but it's not workin) near the firewall. Have discovered some play developing here. What are my options here for parts//servicing? Anyone? I assume back-in-the-day, you could prob buy the entire column up to the rag joint part, but I'm not really finding anything... Please share intel if you can.........
2.) CAT-CONVERTER QUESTIONS....(Why THANK-YOU FoMoCo, for a SECOND CONVERTER, up by the exh manifold!!! It's provided such joy and pleasure for Pinto owners, 4 decades on...!!! INSERT SWEAR WORDS HERE...)
I digress..sorry
.. SO: Though pretty sure they're not clogged, I'm determined to get these Beasts off the car. The lower one underneath is straightforwar
d (and after considerable inquiries, I found a shop here that will weld in pipe, no questions asked..). Now the small converter which is up near the exhaust manifold....Aa
aarrrgghhh....
.I want this POS gone as well, but of course, there's really limited room to work there. HAVE ANY OF YOU HAD SUCCESS CUTTING THIS OUT and welding in piping? Could I use a manifold from a pre-converter-era 2.3 (assuming I could find..)
Or....I imagine some of you may have installed a header here instead....(??) ..I was hoping to avoid that bcuz I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to keep car.. Please share your acumen with me if you can.
So any advice on either of these will be greatly appreciated, Lads. Cheers and regards from NYC.....