Recent content by h0wb0y

You know, I have honestly never really put much thought to that. I have replaced quite a few floor pans - and I guess I have just always got lucky. I will definitely be paying attention to it now though! Thanks.

Yes - I have several hundred pounds of Starblast waiting to be used. I just want to get a solid game plan together as much as possible before I start blasting - and I would really prefer to not blast both sides of entire panels that I am just going to cut out. I know it will expose issues that...

Hello Everyone - Life got in the way of my project but I am back at it. So, my new floor pans came in. I laid them in the car and I am extremely impressed with the fitment. I am pretty positive that I really only need to patch in the spots where feet go in three out of the four seating...

Is that hood alignment bugging anyone else?

Oh man. I am so glad you mentioned the parking brake cables - that never would have crossed my mind until it was about to be a pain. B Body axel with offset spring perches, huh - I like that idea and will have to now do some research down that path! Thanks again! Yet again - great advice...

I had it out within 2 minutes of going out to work on it yesterday thanks to all of you.

I haven't quite decided yet. It definitely will not be factory correct as far as keeping exactly the same as it was. I will be, at a minimum, changing the color of the interior to black and the exterior to two tone - black and a deep dark version of Plum Crazy. I will most likely have a...

Thanks everyone - I will get back at it today and let everyone know the results.

Alright - I think that is a pretty good start on my "Project Thread". Hopefully you all enjoy it with me! Until I make some more progress, I will leave you with the best picture I have taken during the project so far:

Here's the back seat area: I now have the dash out. I was working on getting the column out tonight, but I am not sure if it matters which way I tap from to get the roll pin in the steering shaft coupler out of the gearbox. (Asked in another thread - but will hopefully figure it out...

Haven't even put the valve covers back on from checking all of the lifter/rocker/valve movement - but she runs! Now I have both fenders, doors, hood, and most of the front end off. Got the windshield trim off with an old body mess index measurement tool without damaging any of it - and the...

And this one: And this one: So I looked - and, not that it means much for a 318 auto on the column car - but it was numbers matching. I pulled a wrench out and the engine was not seized - so I was pretty happy at that point. I was just going to go get a new battery, plop it in, and cross...

Mileage - kinda makes me wonder why it was parked in the first place. Pulled off the air cleaner and was a little taken back by how clean most of the metal inside of the filter was: Then I started noticing some factory labels - which was pretty neat that they survived all these years.

Back. Engine. Free friend that came with the car (probably the cause of most of my wiring being gone).

I have always loved cars. When I was very young (five or six), I would always beg to be taken to any car show I heard about. My step-father was a bodyman and I enjoyed learning everything I could from him - but everything I learned was mostly at car shows because my family could not afford a...