Josh's 73 Dart Sport - "Fred"
So we had the rear all put together the 1st week of February. Slid it under the back end of my 68 just to have it mostly out of the way. Now that I am getting into the qtr work on my car, I want to get it all the way out of the way. So.....
Fred has been hibernating all winter under a couple of tarps. Now that the weather is teasing us with a promise of wanting to warm up outside, yesterday afternoon it was 58* outside, when Josh got home from school, I had him jack the back end up, showed him where to put the stands on the frame (pic looks like they are under the axle tubes, but they are not. lol) and PB Blasted all of the spring hanger nuts/bolts. If we don't get the 7.25 out from under Fred this Saturday, It'll be next Saturday. Of course I will stress the redundancy of putting the jack under there as well, as a back up to the stands when we get back out there. We did discover for as solid as the frame rails are, the right rear spring hanger is toast. The tube that the bushings go in has pretty much rotted away. Anyone have a spare pair? (rear spring hangers, that is) I'll be putting up a "wanted add" here soon.
So we had the rear all put together the 1st week of February. Slid it under the back end of my 68 just to have it mostly out of the way. Now that I am getting into the qtr work on my car, I want to get it all the way out of the way. So.....
Fred has been hibernating all winter under a couple of tarps. Now that the weather is teasing us with a promise of wanting to warm up outside, yesterday afternoon it was 58* outside, when Josh got home from school, I had him jack the back end up, showed him where to put the stands on the frame (pic looks like they are under the axle tubes, but they are not. lol) and PB Blasted all of the spring hanger nuts/bolts. If we don't get the 7.25 out from under Fred this Saturday, It'll be next Saturday. Of course I will stress the redundancy of putting the jack under there as well, as a back up to the stands when we get back out there. We did discover for as solid as the frame rails are, the right rear spring hanger is toast. The tube that the bushings go in has pretty much rotted away. Anyone have a spare pair? (rear spring hangers, that is) I'll be putting up a "wanted add" here soon.