You guys are killin me! Guess I better get out in the garage and do something worth taking pics of this weekend. Thanks for the motivation.
at least tease us with a picture of a whole on the car where a bolt is gunna go, since your not putting anything together at the moment. oh maybe even have the bolt in the picture... like next to it.
Hah! I started cleaning up the steering column last night. Lesson learned, take the column out before it goes to the body shop. I had to rent a lock plate removal tool to finish stripping the column down, then I'm going to clean and paint all of the parts and reassemble. I'll probably go ahead and make a new shift lever and turn signal lever because the 90's GM ones are plastic and they suck. These are the little things that take forever!
last thing i expected to read!! why stop there????? NICE DONK! all joking aside great car, fade is unreal! crazy amount of work and the pay off shows.
I'm having a hell of a time getting any work done but I did finish painting the column last night and I'll get it reassembled and reinstalled soon. I need to get one of my friends over on the weekend to hang the bumpers and other large parts. I started to mess with it but its just too much of a risk of damaging something trying to do it solo.
I'll hop in the minivan after work and drive down there through the night and tommorow; should be there by thursday night and we'll get that blue beast put together. OK not really, but I would if I could get away with it. You have probably already figured out a plan already, but when installing the bumpers, try taping them up in a thin blanket or something similar while putting them on. It could save a lot of grief. It is definitley a 2 man job with those shiny monsters.
The bumpers look amazing. They look so much better on the car next to the sparkly blue paint than sitting in a wooden crate on the floor of the garage. It was pretty slow-going installing them but my buddy and I kept reminding ourselves that this is the last time these parts are going on and we need to take it easy and make it perfect. We installed the floating grill bar three times until I was satisfied with the hardware arrangement. We used stainless BHCS with a black plastic washer against the chrome. I also have some .060 Neoprene on the way which I will use as gasket material anywhere chrome touches paint.
Forgot to mention something and I bet nobody would notice if I didn't point it out. Josh called me one day and asked if I wanted him to weld studs into the floating grill bar to eliminate the hardware. I couldn't believe I didn't think of it, but it went a long way toward smoothing out the look of the front end. There are no visible fasteners holding the grill bar on now, just smooth chrome.
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