Cleaned out my garage to make room for another car

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My clock arrived today while I was painting

I worked on the front and rear bumper supports for the last two days..whatever I could not mechanically remove with scuff pads on my die grinder I painted with Eastwoods rust converter...check out the piece of mig wire left on the front one...the factory left it stuck on there and I did to...

got um hung in our Rhino spraying booth at my work...the air is filtered and then moisture is removed with a refrigerated dryer..

then shot them with Eastwoods chassis primer...will be back to spray their extreme chassis black in the morning..

then my clock showed up via Priority mail today....

 

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Got several things done today with our 68 degree weather....

Hope you all are freezin your

off...it will be 75 degrees here on Christmas and was 68 degree here today...I went to work and sprayed the bumper supports with that Eastwood extreme chassis black...it sure turned glossy...my 16 daughter drove me to work to pick them up tonight....

taped off the rear of the car and sprayed three coats of Eastwood's rust encapsulator and made sure I got it in the bumper shock pockets...loosely mounted the rigtht bumper shock and finished painting the other...

Went to Sears for a gift card and scored these pliers for the ring clamps...

 

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Anyone got a clock...I have an Analog one now

Got my Christmas present to myself installed tonight...to the top and to the left of the instrument cluster...the power connector was sitting right there waiting for it and the ground connection was waiting on the back of the lightswitch and wiper control module....

I had to cut this piece out with a hacksaw blade it was blocking the hole for the clock...

this is what it looks like finished and then in the dark with the back light on...the second hand even ticks very softly....

 

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Thinking about getting that black crap off of the front

This is how it looks...

I don't mind the black I just don't like the texture...I have tried some of Eastwoods Undergone...no luck...some mineral spirits...no luck...and tonight I tried some orange degreaser...no luck...I am really not trying to destroy the paint underneath but my have to...tomorrow I will try some commercial big orange degreaser...then a pressurer washer then my soda blaster...open to your ideas

 

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The big orange worked with a scuff pad...

Brought some of the industrial Zep big orange home tonight and tried a couple of tests spots...found out that there is some black paint behind some of the undercoating? Will call Mike Gale about that tomorrow..it works and probably will do better with spraying it and letting it set for a while..it does not hurt the paint below the undercoating....

used our 20,000 pound press at work and pressed out the rubber leafspring bushings and pressed in the polyurethane ones...they went in easy...

 

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Got my bumpers back today

I went to Superior Chrome today and okayed my bumpers....back home and lightly bolted to the black bumper supports..now have to work on polishing the new bumper bolts...

 

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Smoking that brisket on the back porch...it's raining

No work on the cars tonight have to pay attention to that brisket...a cold front is pushing through and this is the first rain we had in quite some time...I am in need of one of the exhaust couplers that match the exhaust pipe to the stock exhaust manifolds..I took a pic of it for ya...if anyone has one for a 77 Aspen and it looks like the picture PM me...thanks in advance..

 

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Christmas came twice today

First of all Merry Christmas to everyone....I opened presents at 9:00 AM and that fricken cold I have woke me up at 6:00 but good news...my wife checked the mailbox and I got my torsion bar poly bushing and I am sure glad they showed up in black instead of the blue...I also finally got my studs and spacers from FFI...so if I feel better tomorrow I will do some work on the leafsprings...

 

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Got one coat on them today....e-net shopping for tool storage cabinets

Went to work and went with one light coat of the chassis black...we are closed down tomorrow so I will go give them another coat tomorrow morning...came home and did some e-net price shopping for a decent tool cabinet...Sears still has about the best bag for the buck with the sale they are having...some of the Husky and Kobolt ones had bad reviews...HF is out of the question..

 

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Got the second coat on today and swapped the wheels and tires

Today I went back to work and shot a second coat of chassis black on the leaf springs and plates..I went to Sears and let loose of 600 dollars cash to by a heavy duty ball bearing twelve drawer tool chest set...the bottom part will be here on Wednesday...the top part was heavy enough to use a dolly to get it in the house..the stock 14" wheels are back on...the AR wheels go to their new home on Saturday...meet Mark in Willis Texas...they look different and the rear of the car is now lower than the front...the new leaf spring will help with that and the new tires will be taller in the back..

 

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Okay a little more done

Got my 40 dollar ball joint socket today from Mancini Racing...probably only use it a couple of times but I will always have one and have room for it in my new tool box...

jacked up the rear of the car and placed jackstands on the subframe and then two more on the axle tubes..soaked the u-bolts down with pene spray and no wano...the half inch impact would still not budge them...okay done this before...cut off the u-bolts on the drivers side with die grinder and finally got the whole thing out of there...put all the brackets and such in the evaporust solution to soak till tomorrow night...cut one side of the u-bolt on the other side then stopped for the night...

 

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Busted my left thumb once before putting my gloves on

Got that other leafspring out tonight..forgot to put my work gloves on and busted my left thumb twice..but its out and I am glad...put the rest of the parts in the evaporust and just have to paint them before I can put everything back together...

 

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A little more...

I used my die grinder with a wire brush attachment and knocked the rust off aroung the axle tube and the leaf spring perch...before

and after two coats of Eastwood rust encapsulator....

I would have loved to pull the whole rear end and blast it and repaint it but not at this time...will have a two post lift and a beefy air compressor in my dream man cave within five years..just trying to prevent farther rust at this time...

 

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Got my parts back from blasting

The shock mount and leaf spring brackets were covered by undercoating...I took them to work today and had them blasted..got em back home and put them back in the evaporust...then worked on the new tool box...got alot of stuff organized...I ran out of the drawer lining and have four of the bottom drawers still to do...

 

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today....

I finished the tool box and need two more drawers...they sell a middle two drawer unit that I will get later on...I took the shackle and leaf spring mount out of the evaporust...I used my die grinder to remove some of the more stubborn rust and then put them back in to soak another night...hope to shoot them with primer tomorrow...

 

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Got them primed this morning

Got the shock plate and leaf spring hangers all primed this morning...going back tonight to get one coat of the chassis black sprayed and then one more coat tomorrow...

 

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2nd Coat, air shocks outta there..

Gave the shock plates and such a second coat this morning, crawled under the car and removed the air shocks...I ordered some KYB gas adjust shocks last night from Summit..they had the best price..coming to my door for 150 bucks...take a look at the leaf spring rubber crap that I removed..can't wait to drive it next time with all of the rubber crap removed...

 

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Got the easy one bolted up tonight

Got the easy leaf spring bolted back up tonight...will do the other tomorrow night but won't sit it back on the ground until the new shocks show up and I install the rear ones...

 

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Got some shocks and got the other done..

Got the new front shocks today and will get the new rear ones tomorrow...I got the other leaf spring in tonight...still have to torque the u-bolts good and tight but always do stuff like that with the car on the ground and not on jack stands..

 

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Back on the ground tonight

I got the rear shocks on tonight and back on the ground....I then got the u-bolt nuts all torqued down...I still needed something to do so I started the old bolt for new bolt exchange for the fender bolts in the engine compartment...I do not want to paint over or try to clean up old bolts prior to painting the engine compartment...