MuuMuu101's 68 Dart, A Learning Process...
So I realized I haven't been updating this much but this is my progress from this weekend.
My friend came over twice and we hammered out my studs, bent a couple of them and ruined a couple nuts, but that's ok. I'm going to get new nuts anyways. I'm also thinking about painting my hubs black and detailing them as well as replacing the bearings and cleaning up the bearing seals.
While those were off the car I took a closer look at my passenger's side caliper and the piston seals are rotted, so the calipers are going to need a rebuild in the near future (driver's side looks ok). I'm just not sure if I want to do that now while the car is apart and take longer before I get to drive it, or wait till I get new wheels or something during the summer and do a rebuild then as well as clean/detail/paint them.
Then it comes down to the major surgery, working on the firewall. So you know how I had that replacement panel made? Well it's in now. My friend brought in his welder and welded it in for me. I then took a cut off wheel and grinded down some of the welds. We need a better disc to get the rest of it but is should look pretty when done. We still have to work on rewelding the pedal assembly and reinforcing it so that I don't punch a hole in the firewall (an issue we thought of since we are converting to a 2 stud MC instead of a 4).
Lastly, since I don't have an AC compressor or condenser, my friend and I took out some of the extra AC stuff that wasn't needed to clean up the engine bay a little. I'm still going to need to get some more heater hose to clean up the tape wrapped stuff they've got in there. My newly painted air filter cover looks a little out of place now that it's so clean and the engine bay is dirty.
So I realized I haven't been updating this much but this is my progress from this weekend.
My friend came over twice and we hammered out my studs, bent a couple of them and ruined a couple nuts, but that's ok. I'm going to get new nuts anyways. I'm also thinking about painting my hubs black and detailing them as well as replacing the bearings and cleaning up the bearing seals.
While those were off the car I took a closer look at my passenger's side caliper and the piston seals are rotted, so the calipers are going to need a rebuild in the near future (driver's side looks ok). I'm just not sure if I want to do that now while the car is apart and take longer before I get to drive it, or wait till I get new wheels or something during the summer and do a rebuild then as well as clean/detail/paint them.
Then it comes down to the major surgery, working on the firewall. So you know how I had that replacement panel made? Well it's in now. My friend brought in his welder and welded it in for me. I then took a cut off wheel and grinded down some of the welds. We need a better disc to get the rest of it but is should look pretty when done. We still have to work on rewelding the pedal assembly and reinforcing it so that I don't punch a hole in the firewall (an issue we thought of since we are converting to a 2 stud MC instead of a 4).
Lastly, since I don't have an AC compressor or condenser, my friend and I took out some of the extra AC stuff that wasn't needed to clean up the engine bay a little. I'm still going to need to get some more heater hose to clean up the tape wrapped stuff they've got in there. My newly painted air filter cover looks a little out of place now that it's so clean and the engine bay is dirty.
