Blasting.... part 6

Well was a long holiday weekend but not a lot of progress. Friday I got the front spindles broken down, dropped off the rear control arms to have the inner reinforcements welded in, returned the original Monroe Gas-Magnum Severe Duty 550011 CVPI shocks and MOOG CC803 rear springs I had ordered and picked up the replacement MOOG CC811 rear springs for a '77-'79 LTD II wagon and Monroe 34656 Gas-Magnum shocks for an '01 F150 Litening. Then went home and spent the rest of the day cleaned up the hard brake lines for the Torino on the wire wheel.

On Saturday, I dug thru my parts cache and pulled out a bunch of stuff that needed to be blasted, then had a go at breaking down one of the front  lower control arms. REAL PITA!!! With one down and half my work day gone, I jumped in to do a bit of blasting. Got the spindles, battery tray, horns, rear license plate bracket, tail light fillers, coolant lines, AC hot water control valve, spare tire wing nut and the lower control arm all cleaned up.....

Another long weekend ahead, let's hope for more progress!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

ZEBRA 3 OUT

Blasting.... part 5

Since it seems I am NEVER going to get finished blasting, I have gone back and renamed a few of my posts to better reflect the blog subject, because I was beginning to run outta part subsections! LOL...

Again more blasting this weekend of the front suspension parts....

I also started grinding off the heads of the ball joint rivets so they can all be removed....

I also traced my package tray so I can have a pattern should I need to remake one and got my lower rear control arms packaged up to drop off at F3 so they can weld in the inner braces.

Another long weekend ahead so here's hoping for a bit of REAL progress next time I get to play!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

ZEBRA 3 OUT

Blasting..... part 4

Short weekend (went car shopping for the wife a new ride on Saturday) but I was able to get a few more parts blasted.....
























































I also got all my speaker openings measured and found the bumper shim I was able to salvage so I can get it drawn up for duplication.

Really looking forward to the paint filling the air!

Until next time....

ZEBRA 3 OUT

Blasting.... part 3

Busy Saturday but not a lot of progress..... picked up the parts from being cleaned and got them all unwrapped and staged. They turned out pretty good... a few that will need a bit of attention but all in all saved me lots of time cleaning them up. After staging them, I spent over an hour policing the area and vacuuming up all the paper confetti they had packed the parts in....they must have thought I was shipping raw eggs to China!! LOL...

I addressed a couple things on the Tomato, then went thru all my pulled parts to get out the ones that will need sandblasted and got them staged. I figured I would get everything blasted and ready for paint so when I did start spraying, I could knock out all the smaller stuff along with the chassis and rearend.

Next weekend will involve more sandblasting and a couple little incidental areas to address under the Tomato and perhaps some paint will begin to fly!!

Stay tuned.

ZEBRA 3 OUT