Details... part 15

After taking last weekend off to got to the Spring 2015 Ohio Swap Meet & Car Show in Springfield, OH to pick up my bumpers from BumperBoyz, I had a busy & productive week.

On Monday, I put all my bushings on the barbie to burn out the rubber...

BUSHINGS HOT OFF THE GRILL (not really) and the rubber burnt out nicely. Just tapped them on the grill grate and all the rubber ash just fell out...

Went over on Tuesday to blast them clean but there was no power at the dealership, so I just put together the rear sway bar brackets and laid everything out for a photo op.... ALL IN THE DARK

Snuck back over to the shop Thursday afternoon and blasted the cups....

then took them home and polished them with the wire wheel on my bench grinder.....

On Saturday, all control arms are now painted and awaiting bushing installation...

bushing cups, polyurethane bushings and bushing sleeves laid out for verification...

passenger side rear wheelhouse rubberized undercoated...

rear axle bumpers and rear sway bars links INSTALLED (reversed the assembly process of the sway bar brackets for easier hardware access)....

broke down the steering shaft link for replacement of the rag joint....

and blasted the jack and spare tire J bolt so they can be polished prior to being dropped off at the platers with the bushing cups...

Until next week.....

ZEBRA 3 OUT

Details... part 14

Control arm and rear axle bumpers, transmission mount and rear sway bar hanger bracket, backing plate and hardware cleaned, rubberized and painted and ready for assembly!

Will be heading to the Cars & Parts Swap Meet this weekend in Springfield, Ohio to not only pick up my new bumpers from BumperBoyz, but to see what other goodies I might be able to score!!

Have a Safe and Happy Memorial Day and a great big THANKS to all who have served and to those that gave all!!

ZEBRA 3 OUT

Details... part 13

Another productive Saturday but not a lot of reassembly.... welded, dressed the welds, removed the bushings, blasted and painted the front lower control arms...

corrected the rear wheel cylinder locations and mounted the hard lines (I see a couple places I still need to adjust the rounting) and started rehanging the bracketry before I had a hardware issue that shut me down...

and laid out the remaining finished control arms to await bushing installation.

Until next time.....

ZEBRA 3 OUT

Details... part 12

Another busy Saturday.... rear control arms painted

rear wheel cylinders mounted and hard brake lines attached

rear sway bar bushing kit dry fit

lower front control arm spacers fabricated and ready for welding

and reassembled the detailed shifter floor seal

More to come...

ZEBRA 3 OUT

Details.... part 11

Busy weekend but not a lot of progress reassembling the Tomato.... got the rear control arms smoothed and blasted but not before breaking the viewing window of the sand blaster, so that shut down that process.

Was going to hang the rear sway bar brackets but remembered that I was going to re-engineer the hanger bracket mount for easier assembly (factory method a real PITA), so that got put on hold as well.

Pulled apart the shifter floor seal and got the rubber and steel surround cleaned, prepped and ready for reassembly....

and also cleaned up some rubber frame plugs as well as shooting new rubber on the bump stops, engine & tranny mounts as well as the steering shaft boot.

I hope to get a replacement lens for the blast cabinet this week to get that back on line because there are still more bits and pieces to blast as well as my new back up plates for the sway bar hangers.

Don't touch that dial!

ZEBRA 3 OUT