Cleaned out my garage to make room for another car

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Okay my arm and hand is worn out tonight

I used a 1/2 pipe tap to tap threads in the smog hole at the end of passenger side exhaust manifold..taking it to my machine shop to have them shot peened them tomorrow..

 

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Went pretend tire shopping today....

As prevoiusly noted in this thread and my other 440 Dart build I had mentioned that my wife goes overboard when too many packages start showing up at the house...I have some more suspension parts on there way so no more major purchases until after the Holidays....so today I went pretend tire shopping...just so has it Coker tire had this 70/15 wide oval tire mounted on magnum 500 wheel...now I have the measurements so will have to see if it will fit...

 

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Got some small parts in today...some bumpers for the control arms

 

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oh oh I got a couple of looks from the wifey tonight

I got home and got the keys for my storage...there were two boxes from RockAuto...I opened them up and got the following..lower control arm bushings...upper control arm bushings...sway bar bushings and so forth...the reason I went with rubber replacements is because they won't squeal and they come with the correct metal metal sleaves around the lower bushings...all of the poly ones state that you need to re-use the metal sleaves..one of my favorite sayings...GLWT...or for those still learning...Good Luck With That...more boxes tomorrow...OMG

 

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Got the exhaust manifolds back today $0.00 cost

I am pretty good friends with my machine shop....G&G Performance in Rosehill Texas...they called me awhile back with a request for some stock big block head bolts and the rear main aluminum cap and two bolts...I took them off of one of my 440's I have in storage and got them to them the next morning..I told him to credit me for some future machine work and he did...they shotpeened...milled the machined surfaces and drill and tapped the two holes were the backflow valve was before..I am gone for the weekend but as soon as I get back I will be coating them with the por 15...

I also got my roll of neoprene rubber today..I got plenty of extra just in case I screw cutting the first radiator support seal..

 

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Got more stuff while away for the weekend...

Idler arm...pitman arm....inner tie rod ends...upper and lower ball joints...just need the last parts for the sway bar...I got the stock wheels in the back of my truck...going to do more this week...nice and cool here now...glad to be back home...

 

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Got some more today while the wife was down with the flu...no worries

Got some more from Mancini racing...restore breather hose...restore sparkplug wires and those damned hog nose clamps...

 

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Okay I have been busy at night...

Last night I got the front bumper off...WAB...today it went to chrome...not dents or bad rust...it just started the spider rust on top...did not want it to get worse in humidity-vill Texas...not cheap...400 bucks for chrome...5% for the Eco hazard fee and tax...454 bucks out the door in two to three weeks...okay tonight off with the big black bumper support and sway bar..the front bumper side fillers are going to get paint...they are yellowish and the front spoiler is to...many rock hits

the sway bar and front bumper support is going to work and to be blasted by the media blaster...

 

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Got the rear off tonight....

not the old lady but the Aspen's rear bumper and that god ugly black bumper support...it's going to work tomorrow and the bumper will go to chrome on Friday..up underneath the car these are the only things that show signs of rust...I ordered some primer and chassis black from Eastwood today along with 4 cans of black rust encapsulator and 1 can of undergone for the front radiator support...I am getting rid of the undercoating on it and will paint it black instead...

 

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Little more done tonight....

Been using Evaporust to soak rusty bolts and nuts in...it really works good...used it on the bumper nuts..intake manifold bolts and such...then going to give them that high heat VHT flat black cooking...my wife loves this when I bake them on the back porch grill...I am off next week so will paint the exhaust manifolds and bake them in the oven when see is at work...

.....tonight I got what I will call the 5 mph shock absorbers off the rear...they are going to blasting...the inside of the pocket looks good but you can tell someone painted the rear portion with black paint..

the black thing in the next photo covers up some of the front 5 mph shock absorbers...I am going to make some new ones out of the neoprene rubber that I got...

got some more goodies today...door seals by Steel rubber and top roof rail seals from Metrol supersoft

 

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Just so you would know...all things are not as they seem...

Okay, here two pics of the backside of the rear bumper....although the front looks great the backsides of both bumpers were rusty...you can't have that here in Houston...they would rust through in a couple of years...that's why they are getting chromed...

 

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I didn't get a chance to do alot today...had to clean house for a party

My youngest daughter is having a birthday party with her friends tomorow...had to move my parts..vacuum and help clean up alot of stuff around the house..I did get closer to making the front covers for the 5 mph bumper shocks...still have to make two more holes at top...will look for a leather hole puncher at Hobby Lobby tomorrow..

got some of the parts in from Firm Feel...the front aluminun spacers and some of the parts are still on order for the rear insulator eliminating at the leaf springs...

I ordered these bushing for the center torsion bar bushing...no one repops these except in poly they are 49.00 bucks and you re-use the metal parts

 

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Got a few more things done today....

Removed the front 5 mph bumper shocks for blasting...first pic is the rubber piece I am making for them...got a 6 buck punch at Hobby Lobby today and made the last two top offset holes....

Got the sway bar bushing center link out of paint today and pre-assembled...ready to go...

Also got the brake lights going today...traced the wire all the way to the fusebox...had to have been a loose connection because I wiggled the wire at the key buzzer and I got volatge to the switch...put it all back together and it is still good to go...this car is weird...there is an inside bulk connector that feeds wires to fuse box and outside the firewall where there is a huge rubber condom....

 

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Went by my storage today...loaded up the truck with a bunch of crap I needed to get rid of...picked up the valve covers I am going to use..I have the new spark plug white plastic separators from year one...I got the manifolds painted today and they called me from work and my other stuff is blasted...I am going to pick some of it up after dinner...

 

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Last for the night

Okay...picked up all of the media blasted components...radiator latch support turned out the best...the rest still have some rust that I will have to bust with some mechanical method...the plastic media we use at work won't remove rust and I knew that...

baked the manifolds in the oven till they reached 300 degrees..one more or two more coats and then baked again...they are dark grey...

I got brave and cut the radiator support seal...not sure what the two round holes serve purpose...check on that tomorrow and finish knocking the holes in it..

 

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Almost forgot...bought myself a Christmas present today

Got me a clock for the car....

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Okay here's what I got done today

First of all...for all of those freezing their

off..today it was brezzy but 70 degrees...I wore a teashirt and jeans...went to three different O'Rielly's to score one gallon of Evaporust from each..I had a half gallon so 3 and 1/2 galllons in a homer bucket then three of the bumper shocks and one set of Proto impact sockets in for soaking...by late this afternoon I took a couple out to show you the results..you should be able to see them very easy...

that sh*t works auesome...be right back for some more..okay broke the sode blaster out to touch up the front latch support...then second coat on the exhaust manifolds and then baked them....worked on the sway bar for 2 hours with scuff pads on the die grinder to get it as smooth as a babies

then punched hole in the radiator support seal and hung it on the hood...had to bend a couple of the tabs back and then got it to close and seal like a charm....

front latch support and sway bar are going fot paint tomorrow...

 

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Sway bar done...front latch support done

Sway bar painted in VHT gloss black epoxy.....latch support painted in VHT satin black epoxy....

 

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okay heres some more

Got a call this afternoon that the front bumper is done...going tomorrow to pick it up...I put the roof rail seals in this afternoon...Metro supersoft has an issue with it..they need holes in the end section and they should have supplied two new plastic pins that are needed at each end...

they were the easiest roof rail seals ever to install...I have two supple still in good shape ones to sell for 20 bucks plus shipping..

got the whole front end off the car now...Eastwoods undergone did not touch the undercoating...I cleaned up one of the bumper corner fillers with mineral spirits and it did the job..even took off some of the undercoating overspray..

 

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Okay the chrome sh*t kinda PMO today...

Got the call yesterday about the front bumper....went there to find out the other one was done to...they were wrapped up in white foam and I took them home after stopping by Harbor Freight..I took the 5 mph bumper shocks out the Evaporust solution and had to strip some paint and undercoating off of them..got one of them painted but before I did I mounted it...why would you have 4 holes and only two bolts..you can see the two new grade 8 bolts...the one on the left already had a hole and the one on the right I had to drill through the frame..

I then got it painted...remember that it had rust all over it...so there are still pits where the rust was removed...I put 4 coats of the VHT epoxy paint on it so I am pretty sure it won't start rusting again..

Okay the rear bumper is okay but has a couple pieces of trash in it...now for 400.00 bucks it should be better than that..the front had some brown patches on top and some scratches and something that looks like water marks...that is no way acceptable to me by any means...it goes back tomorrow and I will look at the rear one again in the daylight..it may go back to...

here is two shots from the bottom showing two bolt attaching points that were not even cleaned up prior to chroming and still look like crap