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@f100_dreamin the media blasting guy I know has quoted me 700 to do my galaxie just blast underneath and another 700 to paint it. But with that quote I will be there helping his boys out mask it up and make sure they don't miss shit or warp my floors. he said they have ramps so it will be done on there. The GC is also giving me access to their hoist for me to paint it underneath myself to save some coin. Also that way I know it's done well and only have myself to blame if it ends up shit haha. i guess he's giving me a fair deal as I got him into the import yourself from the states as now he has two 58 chev apache's

Yeah that's the place although I just rang them up and got that price.

^^ I like where this conversation is going. And perhaps the whole reason why we cant go there should of been said when the problem occurred but yeah to late now And getting a proper health and safety plan along with timetables of when and where the carpark would be in use and the times used. would take away just a whole bunch of people turning up to a well organised social club event. also having a sharn to the manager of that burger fuel which he manages a few from memory would also be beneficial so we work along side with his H % S guild lines and then being a group organised event. just my 2cents

so how you were saying about it being Arizona car it may have from new but i dont think its been there for a loooong time my galaxie is from Arizona and all of underneath is what i would call brushed rust super light and not a very dark colour. And even mine doesn't look that bad by going off your photos. easy tell tale sign its from a super dry state is all the rubbers are fucked and interior isnt much better haha and sun burnt paint. but yeah will also be getting mine blasted and painted underneath to knock the surface stuff off. but your job to do first is to get the underneath free from any grease or oil as the sandblaster will spread all that all underneath and your paint wont stick at all. so would 100% give underneath a good steam clean as once its freshly blasted blow off the sand and its paint time as its a clean bare surface. also let me know how the guy you are going to see goes as i know the crowd in glen field are 2 grand to get it done plus more if you get it sprayed in galvanising. it also wouldn't hurt to check with a repair certifier and compliance people prior too. as they dont like fresh paint too much as im sure your already aware of

next job on the list was some wiring work. The old fuse box in this car was dangling under the dash and missing its cover plus with it having the glass type fuses its well overdue for replacement. so did some shopping on ali and bought this for the price the Quality is good then the next part of the job was to get @chris r to rewire this new fuse box in with chris doing that i made a bracket to hold the fuse box in place. did some cutting and bending and made this And there it is bolted in place tidy under the dash And placed the cover in upside down for bonus points. so with that now in and that side of the electrical working i just need to order a big fuse and holder and then i can remove the old fuse box from dangling there

wouldn't wet sanding a car in primer be a bad idea? And yes it will be sanded when the primer is dry haha as from what i understand the primer absorbs moisture but might be different depending on the type of primer. but i see why you are doing it to get a nice smooth surface.

cheers still plenty more work to be done before its legal still

Is this the one that was on TM for 1 dollar reserve? if so good score man even had it sitting in my watchlist to see what it would go for. And yeah agreed on needing a wellside for this good luck and keep us updated!

well ^^^ he beat me too it. get your parts from rockauto some parts end up with a big freight bill though like drums and other heavy items. but yeah wont get them any cheaper locally even at trade prices.

Haha yeah that would be good if you could. did think it looked a bit average with them and they don't really protect the speakers from the sun either.

Go check out the build mate would like to say yes but would have no use for them so not much point.

unfortunately don't know enough about sound systems that i would be able to use them to my advantage or knowledge. haha but thanks for the offer

So with having a radio in the hole and no speakers that was the next job on the list. so i figured this system would end up with 2 rear 6x9's and one front 6x9 in the dashtop. so started with the rear by pulling the parcel tray off to mark some holes out to place the speakers and thats when i came to know really how shit the rear parcel tray was the material on it is sun fucked and i knew that but figured it would just need a recover but it had been patched up in the past and done quite poorly plus it was the wrong shape so i got a piece of plywood and started to make a new one this required many hours of cutting and sanding to get the shape right. With also needing to taper the edge due to the chrome trim. and some weight to get the bow out of the ply too And i guess now your wondering why those speaker holes are small. well unfortunately there is not enough space without chopping the metal frame below to make two 6x9's fit and to look right too As im also not keen on cutting this car up too. but there is a spot in the centre for one 6x9 on the parcel tray but figured two speakers would be enough. so i then got to work on how to hold the parcel tray to the metal frame so for when the speakers are working they are not causing rattling issues. so i then routed out these bits in the top of the parcel tray for my mounting plates to be secured in. oh and the holes are offset because that's where the holes in the metal tray below were. used some 1.3mm panelsteel and welded a nut to it. i think these plates were 50 x 50 sprayed them black and screwed them into place. i then got some vinyl material from @64vauxhall and placed it over the ply using staples and ADOS in a can i then bolted it into the car and fitted some soundstream speakers i had. so all in all i think it came out pretty good considering im not a interior guy or a wood butcher. but now after ive finshed it and made it would've i been any better off using mdf?

Another no so important job on the list done. pulled out this piece of sheetmetal Spent a whole bunch of time cutting bending and welding some nuts in to make this then applied some rattle can black to it so i guess now your wondering what its for but have some sort of idea in your head. And your right! its a radio mounting bracket decided i was sick of driving it with no radio and had planned on making one so put one in. As the original radio was still in its factory hole but didn't work and i wasn't keen on chopping up the dash to make a modern unit fit. or spending mega bucks having a reproduction one in its place. was also keen on tucking the radio away from being well seen also so this works And you can see the factory one in the top R/H corner. Also just used this radio as had got it years ago from a car that was being wrecked. might chuck a nice modern bluetooth item in if i feel like spending money later on down the track. shes pretty level mate. so yeah now i have a radio but no speakers.

kinda disappointing your painting it black. although it will still look good. but choosing a colour is always hard too. glad to see some progress on this!

Also one of the jobs that needed to be done was the seatbelts they had failed compliance due to not mounted in the factory mounting points and wrong seatbelt type. so the first inspector got it all wrong and said it required 3 point belts which being a pillarless car there is nothing strong to mount the top piece too which the only other belt i can have is lap belts which is a factory option witch this car was not ordered new with. so called @cletus round to have a look and see what could be done. he looked and found that it had factory mounting points that still had the bungs in them since 1964. so i then ordered some seatbelts from https://www.seatbeltsplus.com/ as they are quarter of the cost than from classic seatbelts here in new zealand. used youshop post service as they don't do overseas shipping and arrived at my door a few weeks later. I then mounted two of them in the front using new seatbelt bolts i had around and using factory mounts. I had then organised while i was doing the wheel alignment for @cletus to check the belts and fill the paperwork out to get a seatbelt declaration to state that after being recommended that i put in 3 point belts i am not and keeping the lap belts in place therefor leaving nzta not to blame if any accident is too occur. then a week and a bit later this turned up And also bought a third one so once shes all legal i can put a middle lap belt in using one of each of the mounts as if i had it fitted it a strength plate would need to be added as two belts on one set of mounts. oh and no belts for the rear seat. As then plates would need to be welded in and a cert would be required and im not that concerned about it. Also thanks to ol mate @cletus for sorting this out

Cheers will keep in mind if I need something Yeah hard thing is finding anyone with spec's or someone who understands suspension and steering geometry. As everyone now just gets taught if it's in the green it's good. also trying to push these tanks also doesn't help haha yeah I'm glad it didn't say on the printout too that it's custom specs as then the engineer will question it as edited it to suit within spec haha. still have to use a measure tape every now and again for when issues are still present after alignments

Another job on the to do list done but again took way too long. One of the jobs that needed to be completed for the engineer's sign off was a wheel alignment. Not that is any what related to the chassis repair but i guess is a standard on any repair. seen as i work in a shop and have to do wheel alignments on a daily basis why not do it myself right. well we don't have the spec's for any car of that era. so i gave the guy at northwestern ford a call to see if he had any spec's to which he found some and sent them via email which was choice. so spent way too long trying to convert the measurements over to millimeters from inches then into our alignment computer. only to make 3 different ones with different spec's on each one to making one for better drive ability. then thinking some more and changing it again. so then on one of my days off i took it in to do the alignment. well it started off with not being able to put the rear sensors on the car due to the rear wheel arches. That's cool seen as there is no rear adjustment anyway. then set the computer up for front alignment only... but ive only done one other car that way so had to figure all that out again. then computer had a spaz and wouldn't do the full procedure so try again and again then decides to play ball. so then get to do the alignment only to find its miles out and requires shim's in the front for both camber and caster. so jack it up slightly to release the suspension load then loosen the nuts and remove and insert shims until within spec. so that was about 2 hours work to finish that alignment. woohoo. only to find the computer would not communicate with the printer. so just figured i would sort it the next day as it gets kept on the database. so check on the database only to find that the spec part of the alignment is blank. great. we had then got the IT guy in to check the printing issue only to find that it had a issue with the ip address being a wireless printer but all of this was caused by the Auckland storm causing the power cut. so when the printer was working i figured i would just chuck the car on the alignment hoist run it through the procedure then not have to adjust anything due to doing it the week before. but nah off again and where i would have to shim it again... so off it went and brought it back in to work another day to do it. then edited the spec's again but really made a new lot of spec's altogether then spent a few more hours getting it to the new spec And then printed 2 copies of the new spec's and is still on the database which is good. And now noticeably drives and steers better than the last alignment. but i also tried to correct the steering wheel location as it is far off from straight. but couldn't pull the wheel off even left some puller tension on it overnight with no luck so have put that in the too hard basket for now. oh and one i was doing on @chris r van a few months back for engineer's sign off was also shim's and a long alignment job.

Finshed doing one of the jobs i was going to do then half assed fixed it then decided i will fix it properly as would of most likely bite me in the ass if i didn't power steering pump was leaking out of the front seal so put some morey's in there and no more leaky but the pump pulley ran way out of true and to the point i knew something was worn and fucked so off it came. had got a seal kit out of rockauto for this job seen as they are the cheapest. then stripped the pump into as many pieces as it could be I then found that it had bushes and they were worn out so i stopped in to my local transmission and steering parts supplier (being tranz) to see weather they had any bushes or not but they didn't but spent some time sharning as they got an ex trans and steering mechanic there so he gave me some tips on the pump And told me where to get the bushes. oh and also gave me the bush sizes off the top of his head so went to seal imports with a bit of paper with the size needed and job done. so ended up getting some teflon coated bushes rather than the standard brass bushes as they are easier to fit and much nicer on the pump components when wear occurs. I then removed the old bushes and prepped the pump for fitting new seals and bushes by using some wet and dry sandpaper A flat surface being a tyre machine being the most ideal And some wurth rust off for the lubricant so we do this by moving the item you are sanding in a figure 8 shape so that the item gets sanded EVENLY And then the otherside too so now the both sides are hand machined flat so the seal will seal! I then also polished up the main pump shaft as it had score marks from the worn out bushes and years of use. Ran it up on the lathe and sprayed the wet and dry sandpaper with rust off again and used the sandpaper to polish the marks out. I then threw the parts in the blasting cabinet and gave them a sandblast at home I then fitted the new bushes and new seals and the rest of the stuff back into the pump And gave the components a lick of paint. ended up coming out super average being from a spray can. should've just bought some white and sprayed in my spray gun. then joined the two halfs back together And then at this point when i fitted the pulley realised the internal hole in the pulley had worn out offset. so off so saeco wilson so buy a blank pulley in the same size. then sent the pulley off to a engineering shop to have the pulley offset hole size and keyway done on the pulley. Done to a tight fit mate also notice in the photo how worn that pulley is! the key way had mostly worn away. I then prepped and sprayed the new pulley black. then used the oxy acetylene to heat the pulley to expand the pulley enough so it would nicely fit onto the shaft. being that it was a machined fit. then refitted back onto the car and bleed the system. so i now have a good functioning pump with no more wobbly pulley. I also added some morey's back in too as the steering control valve is leaking also.

I personally think the chassis wont look good in black well just standard gloss anyway with all the great work done with the chassis mods and design i think it needs a colour that will show off that. thats a work of art by itself perhaps like a metal flake black or gun metal grey. have you thought of getting it dipped and powdercoated? i would also be inclined to make the exhaust a different colour to the chassis also just to show the workmanship of it keep up the good work!

Seen as the trans got a rebuild I had to give it a stall test right? well I guess it won't stall cheers m8

Haha yeah i didn't know anything about that until after the work was done through the grapevine. just him and another guy Matt is working there. hes has a bit of work on though

cheers glad i got the trans done as don't have to stress about it on any long trips if it does any. And nah still no legal will be trying to keep the build thread updated as is abit behind now

but no colour goes with bloody orange!