I’m not disagreeing with you on going back the way it was made – but it seams like the substance crumbles as it ages – so I found something that works great and is hidden from view. I wish there was a way to remove the "ends" from the S-body connector for that would be wonderful – but I hadn’t successfully done that. I generally shorten both sides of the vacuum hoses so there is not an overabundance of “hose” under the dash. I have two more S-body hoses in my garage (. . . somewhere) if I ever must repair another one of those. I might need to get some more while I still can.
I literally have a 2-car garage stuffed full of old (and new) car parts. I have been going through and tossing out junk and selling what I won’t be using. I also have taken the wife’s food vacuum bagger machine (or whatever it is called – and don’t tell the wife where its at . . .) and vacuuming the parts into an air tight container, that I can also write on. Also, I can use it to keep all small parts together. Our humidity is so high, at times, that I have several new parts that are no longer useable because they are rusted beyond use and is still in their original box - all contained inside a closed (and locked) garage. Also, I’m slowly inventorying my “stuff”, so I know what I do have, and more importantly, I know where to find it when needed.
Just picture car parts, instead of food.
Taken 2.5 years to get where I’m at now, and only have garage less than ½ way completed (so I’m almost done, hehe).
The good news is once done, and if I kick the bucket, there will be a file easy to locate that says what is what in my inventory. My brother already knows about it so he can manage my parts sell-off. My biggest worry is no one will know what is what and might just dump my stuff into a dumpster – which, I guess, is better than someone just tossing me into a dumpster . . .
I still have a lot of ’66-70 B-body “stuff” that I’ll never use. Need to slow down so I can get some of that “stuff” sold, to finance what I’m currently working on.
XfbodyX - you might make pictures of what you have and just post it in our for-sale section, first. You never know . . .
BudW
