Gerahead's 71 Dart

Welding and grinding all done on the quarter panels. :blob::blob::blob:
When I disassembled the car, I removed the K-member and entire front suspension intact including the front tires. As you can probably imagine, it has been quite a PITA to shuffle it around the garage as needed to get at other things. The other day I took advantage of HF having moving dollies on sale, so I got one to place under the assembly so that I can at least roll it around when I have to move it. One of the reasons the tires are still on it is because a previous owner installed Gorilla lock nuts on virtually every wheel stud on the car. What kind of idiot does this ****!!! The only 'key' for these locking lug nuts is one that I found loose in the trunk eons ago. Those of you out there who are reading ahead . . . . . you are absolutely correct, the 'key' did not fit on any of the locking nuts :wack:

What I had found on the rear axle is that I could drive an undersized impact socket over the nut and tightly wedge it over the largest OD of the nut and then use my impact wrench to back the nuts off. As is always the case in things like this, 4/5 came off relatively easily. The last one is just a *****. I finally gave up when it got to the point that I was getting so angry, I was going to hurt something. Put everything down, go inside, mix an adult beverage, calm down . . . . . solve this one another day.

Plugged the air hose into the blasting cabinet and cleaned up the sway bar splash shields that I scored last Fall. These are the kinda smallish black plastic pieces that screw into the bottom side of the front frame rails that were gone on every car I had ever seen before this. They were full of all kinds of scaly, rusty crap. The glass bead barrage cleaned them up very nicely. I little scrubbing with soapy water and they ought to be very nice. One is kinda buggered up so I intend to see what I can accomplish with some auto adhesives to fix some cuts and cracks and a heat gun to straighten it back out. It will have to do until I can find something better. That's it for now. L8r