Day something or other.....13-14...all running together, with little progress, BUT, forward intentions!
Car is scheduled to head to a frame shop this weekend. Owner also has a Goose! So should be interesting to see if we get any work done between BS storms!!!
Have spent the last couple of weeks sort of agonizing how I was gonna get my "three wheeler" onto a trailer, as since I cut off the top shock mount, there would be no way to anchor the top of the suspension to limit travel! Ooops! It just fell on the ground...!
Earlier this week, late one nite while looking at it, it struck me! A crutch is needed! AND, I have all the convenient places for which to mount it! I was gonna build a cradle or some elaborate 4th wheel of sorts....glad I didn't get that far!
I found some old scrap 1" square tubing out back (OLD mainframe computer chassis!) that I drilled, cut, welded and drilled some more to fit. It mounts in the lower a-arm where the sway bar end link would fit, and anchors on the top frame rail, where previous owners mounted a remote oil filter. How convenient and nice of them! (NB: I need to move that damned mount....all it does is drop oil all over my exhaust system when I change oil.....!)
I test checked what I figured would be the top a-arm angle when loaded and sorta went with it, using the RH side as a pattern. No engine or trans so should be fine to just get it onto a trailer and off a couple of times, even if my design is off a tad!!!
I also started removing "stuff" in order that the frame shop will have less crap to deal with. One thing that I liked about mod's the PM's did, was this shield on the wheel opening area!
Here is the LH side without:
You can see all the way to China!!! Contrast that to the RH side with the shield still in place.
These are pretty nice! They work really good at trapping crap (and probably heat) in the engine compartment....I can only hope that they have worked as well to keep an equal or greater amount of crap OUT of the engine compartment!
Here is a shot of the LH shield removed. It is fairly thick rubber mat of shorts. A good 1/8 to almost 1/4" thick piece, nicely trimmed to fit around rotating and upin' and down'in things!
So my list of stuff to do before Sat morning is slowly shrinking. Had to write an auction for my friends 69 Talladega sale tonight. That was tense!
List looks like this:
Drain rear brake system (Clutch is done)
Loosen rear brake line to caliper (for easy removal of LH rear suspension as a unit if needed).
Drain Gas Tank- gonna be weldin' goin' on!
Remove vacume line from lower left frame rail. (Don't want it to get bent or damaged)
Remove LR brake caliper...may do this before it leaves instead of just loosening connections.
(Already loosened upper/lower a-arm and trailing arm connections)
(Took off apron)
Call about trailer for Thurs or Friday pickup!
Remove carpets off of wheel well arches!? Will be towing with no rear hatches, don't really want them to beat themselves to death in the wind! May bungee them down....
Remove AC pump? If I can find suitable fittings to cap the system, I'll just remove the AC pump. System has lost it's charge but remains "mostly" air tight....just don't want system to be open to atmosphere.
Put wheel back on and remove jackstands put car back on floor!
Hide all the crap stored on top of the car, somewhere else in the garage!!! UGH!
Ciao!
Steve
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