Today in the garage...

Today in the garage...More progress!

More progress today. A good friend is letting me borrow his rottisorie. I have it for 6 weeks. I better make good use of the time! Today I got it set up, which took a bit longer than I expected. Not easy to do by yourself. I think the car looks really solid under there. With a bit of elbow grease and some paint the underside should look good. I still need to pull the rear end in order to get the car to rotate further. I will do that during the week, then start the cleaning. I wonder if I should rent a steam cleaner to help with all the grease?? Any suggestions?? Other than a few gallons of wax and grease remover. I was thinking about oven cleaner, it is supposed to be a degreaser right??

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I made a new front crossmember to clean up the engine compartment a little more. The big front crossmember isn't really needed as big anymore without the front strut arms going through it. Since I have installed the R&C front end. This is made of 2x2 square tubing. And before some start to question it's ability, I consulted with a friend that is a structural engineer. He thinks it should be fine in this situation.


6 weeks to go, and the count down begins.... tick tock...tick tock.....

Glenn

 

Sweet!!!!!!

 

nice! crossmember looks good and strong can't wait to see more progress

 

That is one serious cross member. Great work

 

I love a good rotissori...Looking good...

 

I filled up a garden sprayer with Greased Lighting degreaser and used a stiff brush I found in the bathroom closet. With my thumb on the end of the garden hose most grease/dirt came off on the first go around. A plastic putty scraper came in handy too on the thick stuff. Did I mention I did this laying on my back?

 

The crossmember was actually fun to make. I did notch it a bit to match the old one. I am not completely positive that I had to do that, but I didn't want to have an issue when I install the engine and found out I needed the clearance for the front harmonic balancer or pully.

Here are a few more pics of it. I still need to box the ends and finish the welding, but you get the idea.

As a side note.... I had a certified welder come over yesterday with his equipment to buzz in the R&C crossmember. He took one look at what I had done with this new crossmember and said I would have been fine welding in the R&C crossmember myself. He said with my welding ability and my own welder I would have been fine. I still feel better having him weld it in as that is structural and has all the stress of the suspension on it when being driven.

Glenn

 

six weeks will go by real fast dont get caught with your pants down

brad

 

Great welding job. U know ur good when a welder says ur good!

 

Nice work.

 

GREAT JOB:bananaman

It's sure is good to see some completed welds - my stuff is only tack welded in right now waiting for my certified welder to show up.

I know that my rottisorie sure saved my back and it made rotten work so much easier.

I like that front crossmember - I'll be taking mine out and replacing it with some tubing once my MII crossmember is welded in.

Keep the progress photos coming

 

looks good...

on my setup, with the...strut rods...gone we didn't see a need for a brace.

 

Looks great. Wish I had a friend near me that had a rotisserrie. Then I wouldn't have any excuses.

 

those rottiories sure are nice wish i had one and the crossmember looks awsome.

 

Very nice work.