My 1966 Valiant Effort

Well, after a few months of working a bunch and having my parts on the shelf I've actually started to do the front end work.

Ran into a big problem once all the front suspension was dropped.....the tops of the frame rails were rusted completely through inside the brackets for the upper control arms!!! Talk about a big disappointment.

So, spot blasted the area (pics are of passenger side) and am boxing the frame in, well more or less capping the area off, which will hopefully also add a little strength in this area as well.

Also, dropped K-member and did a little work to that as well while installing the sleeves for Dillinger's lower control arms. Man, the factory welds on this thing were mostly horrible...there was still slag on some of them even after nearly 50yrs, lol.