"Rookie-Touring" '69 Dart
Have definitely taken some HUGE strides the last few days. Honestly I'm a bit exhausted... Lots more to do but had a setback today. The LCA brackets I received last night are 7/8" too short and the company wasn't able to get additional brackets cut today so those will hopefully be ready tomorrow. If they are not, I won't make my goal of having a roller before I leave. I'll be close but would come up just short. I have plenty of other things to work on in the mean time. We are trying to get some tube bent up to put in some additional structure for the back brace. Only problem is I need a bender die that I can do a 1" tube with 5" or less radius, the same for 2 5/8" tube. I didn't get a chance to work on my core support any more today but I may go back out for a couple hours and work some more on that and the rear bumper brace, then again I may not cuz I'm freakin' whooped!
However, we did get some work done, like welding in the front LCA mounts (ignore the bolts with all the washers, these are obviously not the final fastners)
Added a cross member under the bumper mounts to give some rigidity up front
Got the engine/trans back in so we can bend some tube around the bellhousing and a few tubes for the tunnel
Got the rear UCA mounts tacked in place
We started bending the hoop for over the bellhousing but I had dinner plans with my brother and the work was cut short. Back at it tomorrow. Really want to get this back brace thing finished but we'll see, getting tube bent seems to take some time. More to come tomorrow.
Have definitely taken some HUGE strides the last few days. Honestly I'm a bit exhausted... Lots more to do but had a setback today. The LCA brackets I received last night are 7/8" too short and the company wasn't able to get additional brackets cut today so those will hopefully be ready tomorrow. If they are not, I won't make my goal of having a roller before I leave. I'll be close but would come up just short. I have plenty of other things to work on in the mean time. We are trying to get some tube bent up to put in some additional structure for the back brace. Only problem is I need a bender die that I can do a 1" tube with 5" or less radius, the same for 2 5/8" tube. I didn't get a chance to work on my core support any more today but I may go back out for a couple hours and work some more on that and the rear bumper brace, then again I may not cuz I'm freakin' whooped!
However, we did get some work done, like welding in the front LCA mounts (ignore the bolts with all the washers, these are obviously not the final fastners)
Added a cross member under the bumper mounts to give some rigidity up front
Got the engine/trans back in so we can bend some tube around the bellhousing and a few tubes for the tunnel
Got the rear UCA mounts tacked in place
We started bending the hoop for over the bellhousing but I had dinner plans with my brother and the work was cut short. Back at it tomorrow. Really want to get this back brace thing finished but we'll see, getting tube bent seems to take some time. More to come tomorrow.
