Assembling the Engine Compartment.

We spent about 9 hours running the engine harness, modding the harness, starting the engine, tuning the engine and Keith also modded the steering column so the wheel turns with the old column-shift collar in the park possition.

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The engine wiring harness showing where 4 pieces of harness were removed to remove  the TCS leads.

TSC stands for Transmission Controlled Spark. It has to do with a TH400 transmission not using vacuum to control the engine.  There were relays, temp sensors, transmision connectors, carburator connectors that were not needed.  All this stuff did was feed its own little circuits, it was not connected into any other vital engine circuits (spent about two hours tracing the wiring diagram in the assembly manual).

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My brother Keith helping run the wire harness.  Always good to have an ASE certified mechanic on hand for things like this.   About half of the leads and plugs on the wire harness needed to be removed due to changing to an internally regulated alternator.  I had a hard time hacking my new harness.  Keith did not have any trouble.

We started the engine like this and broke it in with about 30 min of mixed running.   The short block was not rebuilt as the engine was bought supposedly in good running condition.  The heads were redone and the cam was changed. It runs very good and very clean. The gear drive sounds cool, barely audible above the open headers however.

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Inner fender wells installed.

 

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Font fenders on.  The radiator shroud needed to be shimmed up 3/8 inch to get the fenders to line up correctly.  This picture was taken before that was done.

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The underside.  Better than brand new and spotless.   Hope it stays that way.