Hangin the tank
Ang and I hung the gas tank last night. It went in fairly easy. Just had to work the straps a little to make them fit. I kind of wish I had painted the tank silver now. The gray looks clean but not that attractive.…
Clean and paint…
Did some cleaning last weekend. I prepped the gas tank and the pedal box by cleaning and then painting them. The pics I added are for that. I also trimmed part of the pedal box where one of the bolts will pass through the front footbox wall.…
Rack
Put on a number of aluminum panels over the weekend. Rivets, rivets and more rivets! And I’m sure I’m not even halfway through the rivets. Got the f-panels and the floor installed. The floors were kind of difficult because of their odd shape.Â…
Suspension install
Made some real progress this last weekend. Got the rear-end and the left front arm installed. I still need to get a new bushing pressed into the right front arm. Learned several important lessons this weekend. It’s important to have a task in mind before…
First welding
John Wilkins came by last night to help me weld the pieces on. Pretty cool stuff. I had never seen welding before so it was interesting to see it happening. I even did the front right bolts myself. It’s not that difficult to do but…
POR-15
Painted all of the suspension and rear-end pieces yesterday with the POR-15 that Mark gave me. That stuff does harden like a rock! And it is absolutely true about it not coming off of your hands. I’ve got the tattoo’s now to prove it.Â…
Cleaning the rear end
Spent last weekend cleaning parts. Mostly worked on the suspension and rear-end pieces. I tried to scrub all of the pieces down with Super Clean first and then I hit them with a wire brush on a drill. It’s coming along pretty nicely so far.Â…
Super clean
Got the last driveshaft bolt off with some brute force. Reorganized everything in the garage so I can get to things easier for cleaning. I started cleaning some smaller parts finally. The Castrol Super Clean is some pretty good stuff. It really gets the junk off.…