Edie: The Dart

Axle issues taken care of now, little bit more than I figured:

As I got into it, I found the tube to be bent, it had a 3/8" run-out, looking in the tube, the tube was bent toward the factory sway bar perches in the middle of the tube. Which speaks volumes of most axles. :\





I took safety glasses, Grade 70 chain, and a 20 ton jack and straightened the tube out. After about a day of playing with it, split into 2 parts to rest tired eyes, using the techniques found in this article, it came out very nice:


http://performanceunlimited.com/documents/diffstraighten.html


Scrubbed it down, and smoothed out the welds, and beat the backing plates straight.







Painted them up, Rustoleum undercoating:








Made some new perches:




So, letting the paint dry, and waiting on new tube seals, I spent the rest of the week cleaning and installing the deck lid hinge and package tray to deck filler supports in and fixing random holes in the filler panel.







A few projects left here, I've said it before, I will be glad when it's done, getting itchy to move up front. :)