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Hey Yall!

Sorry I have not been posting.

I have been busy.

I have fixed my A model, and been to Winston Salem for the Heavy Rebel Weekender. Yes, we drove it down there. Took the roadster too.

The fix was mostly what I had been expecting. I had made many trips to our local pick-n-pull to find a Jag rear, but no dice. With time running out to be ready for the weekender, I called the one 30 min away, they had one! I hoped it still had it's rear.

It did, and I even managed to pull the wishbone, hub, and axle with "U" joints all in one lump in under 4 hours . The good news is that I did not have to make multiple trips home for forgetting tools n stuff. It could have been a lot worse.

The other place wanted 100 bucks for just the wishbone. Sure it took me half a day, but I got the whole ***embly for $39.97 And cause it was the whole shoot'n match, it took a lot less time to put on.

I put a jack under the side that needed to be pushed back up, and a ratchet strap around the controll arm, torched out the bent up frame and brackets that I was not going to reuse, and clearanced the cracks that would get closed up when things got back into shape, fashioned a fire barrier for my gas tank, and heated up the spots that needed to move.

It took quite a few heats in different places, and I even welded a cheater bar to one stubborn spot. Welded it all up (sort of) purdy, and checked my camber. I actually had to take out shims that had been in there before.
It is now straighter than it was before.

I could not fix the wires on such short notice. I bought some Americans off a friend, mounted my tires and took em' home to find that the stupid hub center on the jag flange (that is a chevy bolt pattern with 1/2 X 20 studs) was too big.

After much unnessasary freaking out, I started up the car (on jackstands and a jack) put it in gear and took a flat ended die grinder and shaved .020 off of each hub center.

Blead the breaks, adjusted the camber, and took it for a test drive at 11:30 pm on thursday. It drove straight. I blasted it a few times and nothing broke. Ran it up to 75 real quick and took it home. I decided that Shelia could drive it early the next morning 5 hours to the weekender.

It held up fine, and we had a great time at the Weekender. Rock and roll, mud wrastlin', freak show, ****ie contest, car show, lots of cool people, and cops that had some where else to be. It does not get a lot better than that.


I did take pictures but I am too stupid to post em'. I am not even sure if they are good yet.

Philip