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Old 09-05-2014, 06:51 AM
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Thanks! Oddly, it actually has gone pretty fast up to this point, kind of surprised. Took like 4 or 5 hours to take the front clip off, like 2 hours to remove engine and trans, about 4 hours to gut the interior, and about 6 hours to remove all the suspension and the frame. The time it took to remove the suspension and frame includes cleaning up the parts coming off as well.

So spoke with Doug at Global West like a week ago, and got all the stuff ordered to freshen the suspension. Hope that stuff will be here today or so.

Engine was dropped at CVMS couple weeks ago when I pulled it, and the trans was shipped to CK Performance to be freshened up.

So the plan is to get the suspension done, frame installed, engine and trans installed, then take it to the body shop. That way it can roll around and the body shop guys aren't burdened with moving the hulk.

Also going to prep the firewall and underside before I take it to the body shop. I'm going to use a Vintage Air AC setup, and because of, will smooth the firewall. I purchased a smoothie panel from ABC Performance, and should have the firewall prepped and the panel tacked into place by the end of the weekend.

The underside I'm going to clean up, wipe down, and coat with truck bed liner. There's some minor repairs that need to happen on the floor pan cross braces, seems a couple small areas held water and rusted a little. Think it's like 2 spots of like 2" by 2" at most, not enough to even purchase pans. The braces I'll hit with some Eastwood internal frame coating once the patches are done. Luckily, when I first got the car in '91, I pulled the carpet, wire wheeled the whole floor, and POR-15 it. Saved it.

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