Jimbo1367

Don't forget to shim to gear inside the pump to locate the housing before your tighten it. I just read a thread recently that the OP didn't know this was a must. Needless to say, he has bad oil pressure now and going to go through his engine again.

fatboy64

thanks for that info

fatboy64

sprayed on some weld through primer





the piece all trimmed to fit

fatboy64

i sent the frame out for powdercoating last week so i should get it back in about another week. i forgot to take pics of it leaving though

fatboy64

i got the frame back from the powdercoater

fatboy64

painted the airbag brackets





these are the shims for the rear upper arm. cleaned them up and sprayed some rust converter on them

fatboy64

freshly powdercoated frame, man thats a huge difference from it before when it was all rusty and dirty. and starting to reassemble the frame



motor stands and spacers painted along with some new grade 8 hardware

fatboy64

all new hardware for the airbag mounts






here are some night shots, sorry about the messy garage







you can kind of see the airline. i ran it through the frame on both sides

fatboy64

bodywork being started

fatboy64

primer getting sprayed

fatboy64

getting ready to remount it back to the body

fatboy64

body is mounted back to the frame and layed out


the firewall also got painted. its like a gunmetal grey color

rides by design

Looks good

fatboy64

thanks. still got a lot to do

rides by design

Stay with it.

E.rodz

iTrader: (4)

good to see your still chipping away at it. It gets alot easier when you start assembling the shiny stuff. have you replaced the driveshaft yet? if not I have a almost new one that I had built for my belair before deciding to go twin turbo so I built another one both have the slip yolk in the rear were it should have been in the first place. hit me up if your interested.

fatboy64

thanks... slowly but surely I'm getting it done. i still have to buy a few big ticket items such as the vintage air, accuair ride management, wiring harness for the fuel injection, a new steering column and dakota digital vhx gauges...my driveshaft has a slip yoke installed in it already, had to do it when i had hydros on the car...but i seen yours and i think mine is different...i will post a pic for you to look at it

fatboy64

here is the driveshaft

fatboy64

here is the 4l65e


i was able to get it out of the garage today and took some pics








i been thinking about recessing the taillights in farther...not sure how hard thats gonna be to do though




gotta weld all the trim holes up...shaving all of it and the door handles

fatboy64

still fighting with the steering column


does anyone have an idea how to get this section of trim of so i can remove the windshield? i removed all the trim on the inside surrounding the windshield


here is all the interior trim bagged and tagged




drip is gotta come off to...i think im either gonna paint all the trim around the windows or get them powdercoated black