I’ve been looking for an NOS gas door guard for awhile now. Finally one showed up on eBay the other night. Got it in the mail today and installed it. I think it looks sweet!

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Well, after installing some new gaskets between the pipe and the manifold, we still had a leak. So, we removed the driver side manifold and inspected it and the pipe. The manifold has a bit of a rough edge on the flange, so my buddy is taking it to a machine shop Monday to smooth [...]

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We saw where the fuel line was leaking and took the clamps off, holding it to the frame

Tightened the line at the coupling

Tightened the line at the fuel filter

We THINK that got it, as far as the fuel leak (we wanted to tackle a different project rather than replace the whole fuel line)
Time to get [...]

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Got some rubber insulating tape and wrapped the base of the steering wheel column. There were a few gaps where the rubber boot was torn as it passes through the firewall. Hopefully that will keep out some of the fumes from the engine.

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Jacked her up

Tightened one of the nuts on the exhaust pipe and manifold

Eased her down and out

Added a bit of fuel to the carb and cranked Stella up

Didn’t really see a fuel leak this time

Fumes from the engine were still coming through the firewall near the steering column

I removed the piece of the Dynamat type [...]

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