So my good bud Guillermo who helped me out tremendously on my 51 Buick: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=194762 well he need his Fleetline bagged. It had been slammed out back but rode like crap, rigid! so a big step notch is in order and some fatman fab dropped uprights. Bags will replace the springs and so on and so forth. At the same time we are going to flake his wheels with some Roth Warm Beer, jummy. day 1 good start, got the car jacked up removed the stock shocks out back, cut the trunk floors to fit the notches, trimmed the notches to contour the chassis and cleaned the chassis where we are going to weld them. also welded 3 pieces of both notches and ground the welds smooth. they drop right in so we can weld them to the chassis tomorrow. see ya tomorrow! Yaril
Haha, thats exactly where I have my bottle opener as well. Keep us posted. What kind of welder are you using for the work?
thanks guys, we are using a millermatic 175 with some .035 wire. ill post more pics tonight of the progress.
quick up date before we get started today... well the notch is welded in solid and i think it looks pretty good. we just got our 4" lowering blocks (angled) so we put those in. Our budy came to check out the progress in his slammed 55 Olds, when he saw what we were doing, he got excited and tore into the front suspension taking it all apart for us, Thanks Gabe. Then some cutting on the front end along with final black base on the wheels and tank for the gold. notch welded in with the axle raised on the 4" blocks. still need the brace and bag brackets, excessively large notch, naa we are just planning for the future: this is how we took apart the seized outer lower pin. That thing look casted on there. the impact gun did nothing! so i saw sawed off the upright (we had ordered new pins upper and lower along with dropped uprights). then we began to drill out the front one that we could not remove. needless to say that as i went larger and larger on the drill bits... the drill bit actually caught the bolt and turned it off, wow what a mission. this pic is me testing our new face mask. front end got cut along the lines thanks to lowrider and the Hamb (sorry I dont remember the member's name that posted the step by step that i printed, you know who you are). Guillermo went through 6 cutting wheels, who is willing to donate a plasma cutter? anyone? final pic for the morning. the wheels with real deal spider caps. these are gonna get sprayed today (if all goes well) Yaril
you bet your sweet ass. its all og drivetrain so we'll take it easy but we are driving that bitch up along with a few other of our South Florida friends... Update! We got GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!! I basically painted most of the day while Guillermo spent the day cutting open the rest of the front end. another friend of ours came and helped take the front spindles apart while we wait for the new king pins and bushings to get here. well, here are the pics. we call this... "Great BALLS of FIRE" first coat of flake... some more flake... this is after some 4 or 5 coats of flake... i later clear coated them... the Lucky Charms Leprecon really likes the Gold spider caps... Yaril
We are definitely putting in some work I sacrificed blood, sweat, tears and eyeballs!!!!! Almost there home boy!! http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a104/sickboymiafla/image2-1.jpg
We are definitely putting in some work I sacrificed blood, sweat, tears and eyeballs!!!!! Almost there home boy!!
progress for the day... got all the rear brackets welded in. built the "bridge" and placed the axle bag brackets. Gui showed up with his bum eye and held stuff in place so i could tack it together. i then went to town and fully welded all the brackets, top bottom sides everywhere. decent welds, i think im getting better... Yaril
will be interesting to see the gold wheels up against the blue/ teal body.. does it look at gold as the pictures show?
alright, time for some updates... well there were a couple of rain days that slowed us down, but we are in good shape as of today. everything is fabricated and even painted! so tomorrow the assembly begins, (i cheated and started already, could wait). so i built the dropped uprights had them re-sleeved and new king pins and hardware. fabbed the front hats and test fit them with the bags for full range. made some hats for the rear cause we didnt need all that notch, just yet. so while Guillermo cut up patches for the floors that he cut, i painted the notch, trunk, wheel wells, front splash area and the entire underside of the car chassis and floors, ya know just to protect it. well i think it looks a lot cleaner and much more presentable than before, compare some of the first pics with these... now for the paint... its simply some Rustoliun gloss black reduced with acetone 10% Yaril.
thanks guys! ok... so we got the car back on the floor. it seems to like it down there. everything is looking good, the bags work, the floors inside the car are patched up, the interior will go back in tomorrow and we shall drive it around the block. it looks like we will be needing a wheel alignment. last things we did was lower the front bumper, and i polished the brass radiator top. looking spiffy... tomorrow i should be posting pics of the car on the ground. Yaril
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