Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
With my son back in state, we spent some time cleaning the garage. To most it probably still looks like Katrina aftermath but to me this is about as clean as it's gonna be for a long time. I had room to get the funnycar back in. I even had enough ceiling height to flip the body up.
Spencer has been becoming more and more upset that the Charger project has been at a standstill for so long. Not only has there been no progress but sitting under the evergreen tree had begun to fill the interior with pine needles. Surface rust was appearing because we haven't finished the bodywork yet and it's in unsealed primer. I would have liked to have had it stored inside out at the farm but thought the danger of having it stolen was too great.
SO, it was time to devote some effort in the Charger. We started out by pulling the K-frame out and getting it ready to send off to Hemidenny for modification. It only took about 20 minutes to drop it and another 10 minutes to strip the control arm, rack, and brakes off of it. Cleaning up surface rust before bagging it probably took us 30 minutes. - But it's ready to be mailed tomorrow.
Next on the agenda was the pair of frame connectors I'd welded on. We hadn't coated them so they needed to have some corrosion sanded off. My son bought a product from Eastwood designed to be sprayed inside of frame rails. He blasted the crap out of them today and will be putting another coat on tomorrow. We've got POR-15 to cover the exterior that we'll apply tomorrow too.
The fiberglass fenders I'd bought have been taking up a lot of garage space. Now seemed like a good time to swap out the ones from AMD. One nice thing about disassembly is that nothing is rusted in place. - And without a finished paint surface on the car we didn't have to worry about paint chips or scratches. I'm sure I had the pair off in less than a half hour.
The stupid pine needles were everywhere. I think the most time we spent today was blowing them out of the car and vacuuming them out of crevices.
It's usually hard to contact Ken Black. (He's Keith Black's son and runs the business now that his dad is gone) We have been trying to call him for the past few days and haven't been able to talk with him yet. Maybe we'll have better luck tomorrow.
With my son back in state, we spent some time cleaning the garage. To most it probably still looks like Katrina aftermath but to me this is about as clean as it's gonna be for a long time. I had room to get the funnycar back in. I even had enough ceiling height to flip the body up.
Spencer has been becoming more and more upset that the Charger project has been at a standstill for so long. Not only has there been no progress but sitting under the evergreen tree had begun to fill the interior with pine needles. Surface rust was appearing because we haven't finished the bodywork yet and it's in unsealed primer. I would have liked to have had it stored inside out at the farm but thought the danger of having it stolen was too great.
SO, it was time to devote some effort in the Charger. We started out by pulling the K-frame out and getting it ready to send off to Hemidenny for modification. It only took about 20 minutes to drop it and another 10 minutes to strip the control arm, rack, and brakes off of it. Cleaning up surface rust before bagging it probably took us 30 minutes. - But it's ready to be mailed tomorrow.
Next on the agenda was the pair of frame connectors I'd welded on. We hadn't coated them so they needed to have some corrosion sanded off. My son bought a product from Eastwood designed to be sprayed inside of frame rails. He blasted the crap out of them today and will be putting another coat on tomorrow. We've got POR-15 to cover the exterior that we'll apply tomorrow too.
The fiberglass fenders I'd bought have been taking up a lot of garage space. Now seemed like a good time to swap out the ones from AMD. One nice thing about disassembly is that nothing is rusted in place. - And without a finished paint surface on the car we didn't have to worry about paint chips or scratches. I'm sure I had the pair off in less than a half hour.
The stupid pine needles were everywhere. I think the most time we spent today was blowing them out of the car and vacuuming them out of crevices.
It's usually hard to contact Ken Black. (He's Keith Black's son and runs the business now that his dad is gone) We have been trying to call him for the past few days and haven't been able to talk with him yet. Maybe we'll have better luck tomorrow.