Cleaned out my garage to make room for another car

[old tired rebel]

You are moving along quickly but the quality of the work is really showing through.

 

[bremereric]

okay here is what is done tonight

I got home and ate supper..then I got the other end bushing off of the torsion bar..then I stripped paint off off or several pieces for a trip in the rust bucket..I also drilled out the pivot ball joint on the tranny bracket and installed the new one with lock tight and a lock washer and nut..

Got all of these parts stripped of paint and placed in the rust bucket

 

[bremereric]

The paint booth is open to me this weekend

The paint booth was empty this weekend so I took everything I had ready to paint there and shot two thin coats of the Eastwood's extreme chassis black on them and then baked them with the heat on..I will go back tonight and shoot one thin coat of the gloss chassis black on them and another tomorrow..

 

[bremereric]

Okay upper control arm bushings are out

I had to buy a new clothes dryer on the way home and install it and kick the old one to the curb...after that I fired up the air compressor and broke out the air chisel...see I have a garage with no five hundred pound bench and good heavy duty vise...I tried pounding them out no wana...I used the air chisel to drive them 3/4 of way out then could dirve them out with the control arm shaft with a nut on the end of it..two more things ready for blasting..

 

[bremereric]

Last but not least for today

They have some shine to them now...back a 9:30 PM to shoot the gloss paint on...one thin coat...then baked them for 10 minutes...back home at 10:20...one more coat tomorrow...all the rest of the parts to be blasted on Monday...another big paint weekend next weekend...

I also got my clutch fork boot from e-bay today...looks perfect..nice and new...I tried to clean the old one but I would have to use something that would eat the rubber to clean it..

 

[bremereric]

2nd coat of paint and more

I went back to paint today..I took two more items...one of the access plates that I had already sprayed with epoxy paint and the proportional valve....paint really glossy on the second heavier coat..

Then got most of my stuff loaded up for blasting tomorrow...I was able to pound out one of the lower control arm bushings but the other wouldn't cooperate...it going to the press tonight and I am also going to press out the lower ball joints..

 

[bremereric]

It helps to have the right tools..

Long time change day for me...did another rack of the those babyback ribs tonight then went back to work and pressed out that last lower control arm bushing and the two lower control arm ball joints..

Here an inside pic of our maintenance shop....

Then I picked up may painted stuff and headed back home....

I then bent two of the brake lines and got them in the free bike box...I will ship them on Tuesday..

I taped them at the point at which I bent them...

 

[bremereric]

I didn't do a whole lot tonight...

I got the z-bar all put together and greased up...I drilled the hole in the bracket and mounted it..I then boxed up and got ready to ship those brake lines...tomorrow night is the MEK wipe down of the engine compartment then the sanding will begiin..

 

[MeMike]

What a great F body you have been working on and I see allot of good info here for Creed and I to help us along bremereric :icon_thumleft:
You sure have a beautiful Aspen RT :icon_cheers: and have put many great hours of quality time in to it :icon_thumleft: Thank you for sharing and keep up the top job work on you have been doing to it bremereric :glasses1:

 

[bremereric]

What a great F body you have been working on and I see allot of good info here for Creed and I to help us along bremereric :icon_thumleft:
You sure have a beautiful Aspen RT :icon_cheers: and have put many great hours of quality time in to it :icon_thumleft: Thank you for sharing and keep up the top job work on you have been doing to it bremereric :glasses1:

Thanks buddy

 

[bremereric]

I did some work tonight...

I stopped by home depot on the way home tonight and got carded for the MEK I was buying for the car...whew..I think I got high tonight...I had a fan blowing on me but the garage still smells worse than a nail painting place our women folk go to..okay first of all since alot of people were checking out their cowel area on these cars I did to..mine has minor surface rust...I can't get into certain areas to paint it so I will block off all of the openings and shoot it with the Eastwood internal frame product..

Then the frame rail on the driver's side took some of the leaking brake fuild so I hit it with the needle scaler to get it back down to bare metal...still some sanding and I am going to hit it with a wire wheel also..

This is the pile of rust and crap I got out of the frame rail and cowel compartment

I will treat the bare metal with Eastwoods rust convertor and their rust encapsultor before paint..

Heres some pictures after the MEK wipedown...firewall and passenger inner fender done...still have the radiator support and some of the driver's side inner fender to do...

 

[bremereric]

I pulled four pieces out of the rust bucket tonight

The torsion bar adjuster ends and the upper control arm rods...free of the rust..

 

[bremereric]

Methyl Ethyl Ketone

MEK for short....
It will degrease...remove undercoating....and paint.....and your skin...

 

[bremereric]

Finally something to post....

Okay last night I did very little to the car...I had to pull nails and such out of my daugthers bedroom walls...pooky the holes up and getting it ready for painting...I did do a test patch on the drivers side inner fender...

This was an overnite test of a water based stripper...no odors..doesn't burn your skin etc....

I decided to mechanically and chemically strip the paint...blasting was not an option...I suck at bodywork and am okay with painting...there are runs and pooky all over the place..there are big cow pies in the corners to..if I have a clean canvas to work with I am okay...

Tonight I mechanically stripped paint around openings with my trusty die grinder and 3-M scotch pads...this was so I did not have to get close to the opening with the stripper and so that I could cover holes with tape...removes paint but does not eat tape...who would have guessed

Here it is all pasted up for the night...this stuff can take from 2 hours to 24 hours to do it's magic...but I am okay with that..If I can primer by next weekend that will work for me...

 

[bremereric]

Cow pies?
Should they stay or should they go?

 

[77RTNJ]

I think you should get rid of them and use seam sealer any where you have seams. They have both brush on and caulk gun style. I would use caulk gun style for that area in the corners and brush over the overlap seams. That is my plan. I have both types from Eastwood. Bought when on sale and used the brush on in the rear quarter to replace what was there before. the old stuff doesn't seal well anymore on my car. When I picked up my carpets there are use strips like that and they just peal away from the floor. they had big glop like that on the seams. I will use the brush on on the overlap seams and the caulk in the corners. The brush on shows the brush marks, but is paintable same as the caulk gun type.


Kevin

 

[MeMike]

Thank you for sharing this great R/T car :happy7:
Congratulations You sure have dun some very nice work to this car and looks like it went to a great owner
It's that time of year again here in Arkansas to get some spring cleaning dun and organize all my work space to.
Thank you for posting up the wagon for sale that came from an USAF base bremereric :icon_smile:

 

[old tired rebel]

I love the way your car is coming together. I hope my Barracuda comes out this well.

 

[bremereric]

Okay here is some work....

I picked up some better stripper today...I came home at lunch and checked stuff out...I got the driver's side fender stripped and started on the passenger side....I gave up on the friendly stuff because it took tooooooooo long..

rust under the battery tray.....

Rust from the master cylinder leaking brake fluid...

Firewall taped up and ready to go...

Stripper....

I started on the other side....

 

[MeMike]

Thank you for sharing this great R/T car :happy7:
Congratulations You sure have dun some very nice work to this car and looks like it went to a great owner
It's that time of year again here in Arkansas to get some spring cleaning dun and organize all my work space to.
Thank you for posting up the wagon for sale that came from an USAF base bremereric :icon_smile:

Well thank you Mike, It sure has been a fun project :happy1: