Almost back together. One ball joint has a torn boot and the other has a damaged castle nut. No one locally has them in stock so she is still in the OR. Had to have my son come over and hang off the bumper to get the shock compressed enough to start the top nut. Coil overs are all the way down so I thought it would be easier than stock springs but was about the same pain. I didn't have the engine weight for the stock springs so these are definitely a firmer spring.
Added brake fluid. Cannot find a leak. The rear reservoir was bone dry. I pumped them for a few minutes and no fluid on the ground. I was by myself so I didn't bleed them yet. Pulled the drums and hit the brakes again and the right rear wheel cylinder popped the piston. I will get a new one of them vs just putting it back together. They are cheap and it probably should not have popped out. Maybe I get lucky and that was the culprit. I doubt it though as it was dry in that brake assembly.
I have to make a decision about the trim before I paint the lower parts. It still has the pins on the doors and holes in the fender and quarter for the trim. If deleting the trim I need to cut the pins off and fill the holes. If the trim was black I think that's the route I would take. The inserts are a chalky red now days. I tried cleaning them. They look good while wet but once dry they get chalky again. I have rolled the fenders and quarter so I doubt that trim will bolt on anyway.
Prolly going to see if I can match the red. We have a local parts store that premixes rattle cans. I may try them but I ran my mouth last time there over the parts kid wearing a mesh mask and coughing like crazy during covid. He was obviously sick as hell yet they had him at the counter wearing a lacy mesh mask thing. Looked like something off a strippers bottom vs a mask. Had he not been actively coughing his brains out I wouldn't have cared but that was before vaccines were out. With my health history I am more paranoid than most. I told him if he had a real mask he prolly wouldn't be so sick. He got mad and we started yelling then the manager came out and I told him he was an idiot making the kid work as sick as he was much less letting him work with a g string on his face at the counter.
And I wonder why my sons and wife don't like me out and about on my own. I need a damn babysitter anymore.
Ohh wait a second. GET OFF MY LAWN. Damn kids now days.
Added brake fluid. Cannot find a leak. The rear reservoir was bone dry. I pumped them for a few minutes and no fluid on the ground. I was by myself so I didn't bleed them yet. Pulled the drums and hit the brakes again and the right rear wheel cylinder popped the piston. I will get a new one of them vs just putting it back together. They are cheap and it probably should not have popped out. Maybe I get lucky and that was the culprit. I doubt it though as it was dry in that brake assembly.
I have to make a decision about the trim before I paint the lower parts. It still has the pins on the doors and holes in the fender and quarter for the trim. If deleting the trim I need to cut the pins off and fill the holes. If the trim was black I think that's the route I would take. The inserts are a chalky red now days. I tried cleaning them. They look good while wet but once dry they get chalky again. I have rolled the fenders and quarter so I doubt that trim will bolt on anyway.
Prolly going to see if I can match the red. We have a local parts store that premixes rattle cans. I may try them but I ran my mouth last time there over the parts kid wearing a mesh mask and coughing like crazy during covid. He was obviously sick as hell yet they had him at the counter wearing a lacy mesh mask thing. Looked like something off a strippers bottom vs a mask. Had he not been actively coughing his brains out I wouldn't have cared but that was before vaccines were out. With my health history I am more paranoid than most. I told him if he had a real mask he prolly wouldn't be so sick. He got mad and we started yelling then the manager came out and I told him he was an idiot making the kid work as sick as he was much less letting him work with a g string on his face at the counter.
And I wonder why my sons and wife don't like me out and about on my own. I need a damn babysitter anymore.
Ohh wait a second. GET OFF MY LAWN. Damn kids now days.