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Cool build and appreciate your creativity. I do a lot of projects on my own too - clamps, a come-along, and some imagination go a long way. Yea, ask your son for help when you need it to help him be involved. Young folks around here think my Vette’s cool, but in high school, they want a big pick up. It could be a lot worse. Best of luck with your progress.
About the picture of the Ford.
I am in charge of handing out the torches and pitch forks at the end of your road.
We, the Corvette Mob. Have decided that we will give you one last chance to come good as your running a good restoration at home thread involving your Son.
But one more time.........
Duly noted, with repentance. I’m flat out like a lizard drinkin.
I meant no harm.
Im sorry I got caught, it won’t happen again.
Torches for lighting peacepipes!
Pitchforks for roasting ribs!
A new image, meant as veneer for visual tresspass… Flying Engine method of engine disassembly, cleaning, prep & painting. Inspired by the air traffic at Hillbilly Garage; flights of Canada geese honking overhead at sunup & sunset.
A splitting maul, a wedge & a piece of 4x4 straightened out the pan enough for now. I’ll replace it eventually, but it’s not a priority. I can live with that. Not exactly brand new, but it’ll work until I get a replacement.
It was so crushed I thought it would crack if you tried to hammer it out. Yet it looks like it survived.
Never know until you try, and you had nothing to lose!
Skip welds on the frame look like crrraaappp…I’ve always wanted to learn. I watched Mid-Year Mitch’s video on YouTube where he completed the skip welds on his C3. It seems a good idea, as long as I’ve got the car disassembled.
I got lucky at Picker’s Paradise in Medford, finding a brand new pair of welding gloves and a 200 pack of Eastwood 1/16” tungsten (purple) stick-welding rods for $30. $90 for a little arc welder, $40 for an auto-dimming face shield, burned up a few practice sticks &… …my first welds on the frame.
Tungsten is one of the toughest things found in Nature. It is super dense & almost impossible to melt. I trust this is a worthwhile upgrade.
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So lucky. There’s only surface rust. Dirty & rusty, but no leaks! After lots of cleaning, removal of exterior engine components, masking & finding very high temperature paints. I’m ready to start spraying paint. Frame is transformed & primed inside & out. VHT engine primer & color coat New engine mounts & the engine is back on the frame.
Hot rods arent suposed to make financial sense!! Gotta enjoy life somehow
What a piece of land bet its nice and quiet...clean air!
Next up, on Mountain Men!!
Frame off in the mountains with nothing other than a man, his mercedes and a buck knife restores his vintage Corvette!
Engine pull happens in the AM and hoist doubles as a Teepee at night!!
You got some skills man keep posting pics!!
Need to put this on YT people would go nuts lol
After reuniting the engine with the chassis, I rearranged the project for work flow efficiency, disassembled the pole frame structure & got the yard squared away. Scraping paint with a razor blade is quietly satisfying… “Slowly slowly you catch a monkey.” 👈🏽 Uncle Boris Got the room I built in the barn ready to receive the car once I get the engine reassembled & running, clean & paint the engine bay, get some new body mounts and lower the body back onto the frame…shooting for 🎃 Halloween!
Headlight covers are a bytch to clean down to bare metal. They seem to be painted with a really tough metal primer followed by several coats of sealer & the finish coat. I used a grinder with a wire wheel for most of it; then switched to a cordless drill with a non-metallic abrasive disk. It took me about an hour to clean the one cover.
Nice work there! But seeing the mushroomed end on the wedge gave me the shivers; pieces fly off with the force of hand grenade shrapnel. It could use a couple minutes on the grinder for a new beveled edge.
cv67, if you don’t mind, I’d appreciate it if you would delete the pic of the old dyedka from your post so we don’t have to look at whoever that dude is every time we scroll down the thread.
I’m trying to keep this about the car.
Thanks!😎👍🏼
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Today I cleaned the fuel lines in preparation for painting with etching primer. I think chrome red fuel lines would look sharp. They cleaned up pretty good. Done. Then I scraped more paint off the body with a razor blade…
…pieces fly off with the force of hand grenade shrapnel. It could use a couple minutes on the grinder for a new beveled edge.
Thanks for the heads-up!👍🏼 Right you are.
In this case, oddly enough that chunk of mushroomed steel was just the right shape to straighten out the curve in the bent pan wielding it as a hand-held hammer.
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Just a thought, if those brake lines were rusty. Cleaning them up may make them look better. But how thin are they in certain places.
About 15 years ago, just before moving overseas. I replaced ALL of my brake lines. None were leaking. But once I disturbed them. The rear line that goes from left to right started to leak as I removed it. Glad I replaced them all.
Now 15 years later, I have 4 new flexible lines on order.
Just because.
