Not sure if I mentioned it or not, but back in August I got sick, real sick. Couldnt breathe and the Doctors couldnt figure it out. Turns out it I was sensitized to isocyanate in clear coats. Everything was messed up in my lungs until January when it started clearing up. Finally able to do things now, but I am so freakishly out of shape that I hurt after an hour or two. Gotta be super careful with paint and all the crap that goes with it. If I get near the stuff now the symptoms will come back, so its MOPP4 for me anytime I am around the stuff.
Lately there has been progress, but mostly it is cleaning things and getting parts together. Winter always ends up with the shop being trashed, so tomorrow might be a day where I get out there and make space to do things again. It all was just shoved in to get it out of the snow. Crap is everywhere and its annoying the hell out of me. You know its bad when I am like damn, I gotta clean this crap up.
Stuff happened and I ended up working on beaters instead of on the GTO, but here are pics of what I have done. The th350 is clean, it looked like it came from the bottom of a grease pit, then drug through a large pile of topsoil, thick crud all over it, but now its nearly clean enough to rebuild.
The control arms and backing plates waiting to go back on. If I can scrounge up a swaybar this thing should handle much better than it did when new.
Need to bead blast and paint the diff cover, but the rear is ready to go now. All painted after sandblasting it and getting the rust off. Thats a bunch of crap on the floor isnt it? Maybe you guys think I am so fast because I dont bother cleaning up out there.
Thinking about spraying some bed liner in the wheel wells, keeps the sound down, protects the metal, and looks nicer than overspray. Looks kinda sad with no rear under it. The boxes of new drum brake parts are up by the front wheel.
Still need to get back to work under here, but I have almost all the stuff I need to get the engine running. Mechanical fuel pump, plugs, wires, cap, rotor, ignition parts, radiator/mounts, and most of the other crap. Just need to run trans cooler lines, but I wont bother with that until the trans is in there with the radiator so I know where to run them.
