Details 80....

A bit more progress this weekend, picked up my polished front rims (shown before & after) from Irwin Polishing...

and my brutha Jim got them mounted for me...

and I got them installed on the car.

I also finished assembling the hood latching reinforcement...

removed the modified Fiero vacuum canister from the paint booth and placed aside for later use...

made a jumper wire for the dual horns and tapped into the alternator harness to mate to the factory wiring harness.

I fitted my alternator adjustment slug...

into the adjuster bracket...

so I could make my captive nut to wrap up my 3G alternator installation.

We also got the braking system bled but the rear brakes wouldn't really bleed out like they should, so I'm thinking I may need to reset the proportioning valve.

Stay tuned, there's more to come!

ZEBRA 3 OUT

Details 79...

More little stuff taken care of... got the center brace, hood latch and siren brackets installed onto the core support...

the jumper installed between the distribution block and the starter solenoid...

removed the tail light fillers and the windshield stop out of the spray booth...

installed the locking hood release...

and got about 90% of the hood blasted.

On my way home, I stopped at O'Reilly's and picked up a couple rolls of #16 ga wire so I can make a jumper for the dual horns as well as tapping the 3G alternator harness so I can connect it to the factory harness.

More baby steps toward getting her ready to turn back over to the crew at Far From Factory for final bodywork and paint!!

Details 78....

Been several weeks since I've updated so I thought I would bring everyone up to speed. Nothing major but a lot of incidental items addressed....

My life saver arrived and it made a world of difference handling the high temps upstairs at the dealership!

I got the drivers seat temporarily installed,

the driver side wheelhouse reinstalled

and started pulling out the power systems harness (seat, windows, locks, rw defroster) to determine which firewall opening need to be plugged and how the harness runs thru the vehicle.

After looking at what was there, I put the harnesses back into the protective plastic and then broke down the power antenna setup and wrapped the wiring in convoluted conduit...

painted the mounting bracket,

repaired the stop light switch harness and wrapped it in convoluted conduit and modified the Fiero vacuum canister mounting foot for use on the driver side wheelhouse...

assembled and painted the headlight bucket mounting plates and the overflow bottle mounting bracket...

blasted and detailed the inner fender vertical liners...

and applied the first coat of seam sealer to the passenger door....

My Ford hardware catalog also arrived and boy does it make a world of difference looking up the correct hardware to use reassembling your favorite FOMOCO!! A must have for doing it right...

The following weekend, I pulled both front wheelhouses and the core support back off so I could easily access the 3G alternator and determine what modifications I needed to make to get it positioned correctly on the 460. Got the stock spacers shimmed or trimmed as necessary and need to have one more small spacer made to utilize all the factory brackets and lower swing arm without modifications.

Also got a couple areas at the corners of the package tray ready to seam seal.

Last weekend I bled the master cylinder...

finished fabricating the necessary spacers for the 3G alternator conversion and got it mocked up...

hit the tail light fillers and the windshield supports with a coat of Plastic Dip...

and made a bracket to mount the locking hood release. The drill bit I needed to use to drill the bracket was broken so I pulled out the ole Drill Doctor and cut a new tip on it and was good as new. Everyone should own a drill doctor if you do much drilling!!

Sunday, I got the front rims dropped off to Irwin Polishing to have them buffed out and made all brite and shiny again!