still working on that, hit a bump today, a leak and cant find from where and ran out of daylight cause i spent the day watching the game. but im determined to install and fix this on my own thats why its taking me so long. cope with me guys, its not easy but will be done very soon and ill post pics, its cause im on my own here and its the first time i do this but almost there. when i post pics you guys wont be disappointed. im off all week till friday so every min im awake till then is going to be to work on this for now this, came up on it and remember my record? heres the lighter that plays the same song http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q-VOzYjMb9o
and i know you guys aint going to be happy, but going with this. no cutting no welding no extra weight on the 59s frame and now i still have my whole trunk to play with. all bolt on even the brackets. i know, im a lowrider at heart and i feel like im , but i already have a car with hydraulics my 65 and this its not the money i dont care about that but its the work i put in on it that i want to protect even tho with bolt on airbags it doesnt drop the value at all on the car. defenitely going mufflers on the airbags you wont hear it drop, so yea airbags, but will still do the job fbss with no problems or charging batteries
thats right low quality grainy low light pics, cause the good pics will come when its done, im not to far behind. all glass in including the vent windows rechromed, just need to adjust driver door glass. front end completely bolted on for good, every single piece and bolt and panel. car has been complete and now one piece for a while now, this is just so you see there is progress and i didnt quit or sell the car or anything. be patient, almost there
boogie time. started today, will be done by thurs nite, up and down side to side and on the road by friday night. post a video when im done
anyone else thats bagging a 59-64 x frame impala, the new kits they have are exactly what they claim, all bolt on picture looks bad cause its from my cell phone and its dark, but my whole rear is now done and bagged and is all bolt on. no cutting no welding just cut a 3/8 hole to run the hose. front wheels tomorrow
couldnt get much done today, it got fucken cold. but ended up doing all the plumbing and ran all the lines. done with these, tossed to the side now the bottom and back is all done all thats left is to do the front and bolt down the tank, valves and compressor and its done. will do the front on saturday, bolt everything down in trunk on sunday and im done with the suspension. took me alittle longer to finish, i have to stop around this time instead of being able to bust all nighters cause its too cold. sunday ill have a video posted, fbss
] whats amazing is when i opened it, it smelled like acutal budweiser but had a whiskey smell to it like it fermented more into liquor, and still had bubbles in it and here it is, gave it a second life and purpose told you guys id figure out my switch box problem. right now im wiring it up and drilling a hole in the bottom of the can for the switch cable then jb weld or silicone the bottom back on
put in work on the front end today, was pretty easy its all bolt on the driver side spring i forgot to put a jack under the ball joint when i took the castle nut off and tapped it with a hammer, the spring didnt just drop the lower a arm but flew out and hit me in the chest. could have been really ugly if it had hit me in the face, would have broke my nose or knocked all my teeth out. those of you that have taken the front springs off know what im talking about. but i got it done inch and a half off the ground get this shit out of here heres a side by side, you cant really tell how low the back is because the skirts arent on it but when i put them on youll barely be able to see the back wheel. you can tell from the front wheel and rockers to floor how much it dropped my camera is taking green pictures now, it took a beating along with the build but im getting a new camera tomorrow so my pictures will look better. done for tonight, going to pick up some parts in LA and stopping at king taco =9
got a new camera now. the car is dirty cause it rained but you can now see the drop with the skirts on, back wheel is gone =) back to finishing this up today
fuck yea, won this for my 59 =D http://www.ebay.com/itm/130847588218?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 my max bid was 300, but it ended at half that im happy =) will look good on the 59 antenna, car already looks like a spaceship i wanted to put on fulton aerials, but theyre 40s, for bombs not impalas, so im glad i got this one its 50s 60s also, has anyone swapped out the gears on the differential to posi trac gears? mine is og but after i dropped it with the airbags i guess the seal broke and leaked out all the oil in the differential case. anyone ever swapped the gears or changed the seal? thanks guys
wired up my switches today, took longer than i thought because i had to cut and strip the wires and put spade ends on it. its very easy to wire up, this wiring is front back side to side and works for both hydraulics or airbags Front left up – white Front left down – white stripe Front right up – gray Front right down – gray stripe Rear left up – purple Rear left down – purple stripe Rear right up – green Rear right down – green stripe Power - blue it wires up that way on the valves, so now its just about running the cable and connecting them to the valves and its done. going to rain the rest of the week so ill work on sewing stuff up. ill post pics of work when its done
went out and finally got the power wire i needed to finish the airbags, 25ft 4 gauge wire with a 80 amp circuit breaker and got the materials i need to paint the face and backplate on the bumper kit primer and thinner its a 50/50 mix of each ill be the first to review this on here i guess. ive seen hoods and fenders painted with this and looked good. ready to spray no mixing or prepping just pour in the paint gun and spray was only 24 bucks and is more than i need, but will work since it only needs to last me till the end of summer when i repaint it so itll do. no point in buying high end if in a few months its only going to come off. i plan to repaint the hood, roof and bumper kit faceplate flaked white. the clearcoat. 4 parts 5180 to 1 part 5182 before that, scuff the bare metal with 600 grit and clean with this then hit it with a tack cloth after the clearcoat, wet sand with 1000 then 1500 then 2000, then get a dewalt polisher and polish with this this cup helps you measure the 4:1 or 1:1 mixes when i paint ill be using the eastwood concourse. i like this gun because it only uses 5 cfm of air, any home compressor will push it and it still sprays like a 12cfm gun it has the 1.2 tip on it, which is the basecoat tip. the 1.4 tip is the clearcoat tip, the 1.8 is the primer tip, and the 2.2 tip is the flake and heavy primer tip tomorrow morning i tape off the windows in the back room to keep the materials from painting the glass. will prep, primer, spray, clearcoat tomorrow then ill let it sit in the sun for 2 days then wet sand and polish thursday night and itll be done. ill post pics of process tomorrow
went to pomona sunday morning, there was alot of cool shit there this was cool saw there was plates for sale with the sequence i would have needed and i walked the whole swapmeet, look what i saw sitting in someones post, they wanted 700 bucks came home with this, cant go wrong for 15 bucks and it goes deeper than the regular assembly manual got these for 2 bucks, you dont know how many times when im under the car and something falls in my eye, i have to stop and about an hour is gone trying to get that shit out of there and i got the correct buffing pads for my polisher that youre supposed to use after wet sanding the clearcoat for the first time to get the orange peel off and make it shine
good buys, bought these little things when i saw them with the change i had left over was $360 for the plates, $700 for the rocker moldings, $50 for the buffing pads, $15 for the manual, $2 for the goggles, and $8 bucks to go in. i set my limit and walked in wanting to spend only$150, ended up spending $1035. had alot of fun, worth every penny. met a few cool guys too
spent 700 on rocker moldings but saved money, check this out http://www.ebay.com/itm/1959-1960-Chevy-Impala-NOS-Rocker-Panel-Trim-59-60-Convertible-348-283-Nomad-/150791211198?ViewItem&item=150791211198&nma=true&si=OqVoKVw1%2BifVSL48N8GmxQF9V94%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
ok so i bought some 59-60 rocker moldings, one was good, one had a few waves and what i thought were dings so i decided im going to straighten it and polish them. only way to do that since it has the backing plate is to take the backing plate off. the molding hugs around the plate so the edges i had to pry up the molding ontop of the backing plate is super thin, i felt like i was unwrapping one of those oven pies with the aluminum lining plate. ok when i pry up the sides, it popped off easy on one end, but struggled on the other end. the edges came off, but middle i had to twist a bit. and the reason was because the face is glued to the back plate, and that part hadnt unglued yet. thought it was strange, but got it off. then i started to grind off the dirt, rust and glue off the back plate ok, back plate grinded and cleane up. you guys notice something? the back plate is an exact of the actual molding, the face that i took off to hammer the dings out, straighten and polish. except its hard like a molding is supposed to be, like the door moldings and fender spears. and its straight, the reason the molding with the face on the backing plate was wavy wasnt because it had dings, but because it came unglued on some parts, so the back plate is straight no dings and hard and with or without the molding face, itll still take the mounting clips everything is exact, down to the last curve, dip, screw hole and edges here it is next to the other side molding with the face still on it just not polished yet. looks exact just one is raw steel, other is unpolished stainless, but exact can you tell which one is back plate and which is complete molding?
what that means is if you have moldings that are wavy because the came unglued, or are dinged, or are worried of them getting wavy later if they unglue, then chrome plate the back plate which will look better than polished stainless and will last longer and wont ding or go wavy. get what im saying? and if it is wavy, its because it came unglued and you can glue back on to straighten the face, heres a video that shows what im talking about. the camera is shaky because i just got done using the grinder and had me shaking still, but youll see what i mean about the waves http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hpIxHi8AZUs
if its aluminum you can chrome it since its just a molding not a skin and backplate. or polish it and itll come out almost chrome. go back to page 9 on here to see how thats done its easy. where im at so far. anyone thats put one of these together knows, man is just putting this together a pain in the ass. the instructions are horrible and worthless, and every bolt is in a tight spot and hard to tighten and if youre going to build your car completely like i did this one, do yourself a favor and get the SUPPLEMENT manual for your year. i picked mine up last weekend in pomona for 15 bucks and got it just to have it. but when i flipped through it i realized i could have used alot of the information it has for most of the work i did on mine instead of figuring it out myself and would have saved me alot of time this is the assembly manual index and the supplement manual goes into more detail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kDAdy4_wR4U and of course it has mufflers, no noise. the car is dirty because of last time it rained. and the compressors sound lound because theyre mocked up in the trunk not put down all the way so when i tighten them down theyll get quieter. besides, theyre getting boxed in so will be even quieter. the problem i was having was i didnt wait long enough for the compressors to fill the tank, so i thought something was wrong when it wouldnt go up. im good now, from here its all just clean up the wiring
yea i plan to when i get the weatherstripping put on next week. got this put on. its put on right but i can see pumping gas wont be easy
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