13 October 2019 - Front grille center

Finally replaced/removed the original sticker from the front center grille piece.  It was 50+ years old and very faded.  Its pretty easy to remove/install, just basic hand tools; hammer, flat screw drivers and time.  I used an epoxy glue to keep the mercury head piece in place.

Before emblem replacement...

After embleme replacement...

12 October 2019 - Edelbrock 9266 gasket kit - revisited

Installed the gasket from the Edelbrock 9266 kit.  This time I installed a square bore gasket then the 9266 gasket then another square bore gasket, then installed the carb.  Took it for a spin and did not notice any of the idle/surge issues that happened last time that gasket was installed.

11October 2019 - tire swap

Swapped tires from front to rear to see if the vibrations move fore/aft...

Went for a test drive and now the rear vibrations have significantly been reduced.

So the plan is to replace the two wheels up front.  Prolly need to do the back too, but for the short term the front two will be replaced.

8 October 2019 - idle surge/highway speed surges

After driving the car a couple of days since changing the carb gasket to a thicker 1/4" gasket, noticed the engine surges, runs rough.  So I removed the 9266 gasket and re-installed the standard intake to carb gasket and the engine now runs as it should.  Closer inspection of the carb spacer shows that the spacer is not completely flat.  So installing the spacer initially was no problem, the carb seated and compressed the spacer-gasket.  Well after a few days of driving, the spacer-gasket distorts causing the leaks.  Only way I can fix that is to put a standard intake to carb gasket above and below the spacer-gasket to seal it.

I also swapped back the distributor advance spring, I removed one light silver spring and installed one heavy spring.  Once I get the carb spacer issue sorted, I will get back to recurving the distributor timing.

6 October 2019 - front suspension

Cleaned up all the suspension components that can be greased, and greased them.

6 October 2019 - MSD distributor 8479 - advance spring change out

The distributor advance springs installed; 1 heavy silver spring, 1 light silver spring.  The advance stop is blue.

Today I replaced the heavy silver spring with a light silver spring.  So now there are two light silver springs installed.  That shifts the total timing to come in at around 2200 rpm.

Will monitor drive-ability.  Might change the advance stop to black...

5 Oct 2019 - Edelbrock 9266 gasket kit

I installed the gasket kit, took about 15 minutes, and that included the engine check.

 These are pics before replacing the stock gasket...
 

These are pics after replacing the gasket, with spacer gasket installed...