Well, I just got back from a week in Corpus Christi cleaning up and cleaning out his house. I got 4 totes full of stuff and his tool box. It's a god knows 50 or so year old Snap On top box on a Craftsman bottom box. Not very big, but crammed full of tools and stuff. I couldn't let it go. Funny, when I was a kid it seemed semi truck sized. It's not even all that tall. Next up, my sister will oversee getting all the dings from the inspection fixed. We were already putting a new roof on, replacing all the facia boards, and there's a leak in the plumbing drain system somewhere. Probably got to do some electrical too, since it was built in '58.
But, everything left goes into the estate sale. And that's that. 90 years of life, down to several totes of memories that my brothers and sister decided to keep. Everything else goes to the dump or to someone who pays $.50 for it. But, life goes on I guess.
I have gotten a few things done on HeHateMe. My brother came over 3 weeks ago and we cut the roll cage out and dropped it and he welded the halo and windshield bars completely in. Then we put it back up and semi- welded the bottom in. Then we took the S&W frame rails and decided to modify them to make sure that there's never going to be a reason the car can't sit low enough.
On our 83 Regal in our youth, we didn't put the tubs up high enough and then put the cage down tubes over the top of them. We never felt like cutting the cage out and cutting the tubs out to fix it.
I have room for 13" of tire. I kept the frame rails as far apart as I could so the springs will be as far apart as possible. Maybe next weekend, I will start working the rest of the bracing for the cage. It's a 12 point, so good to 8.50. I have the 25.5 sfi book and will add some of the floor bracing, not so much for cert, but for safety.
And then there is the hole measure twice cut once thing. So, when I bent up my A pillar bars, I kept thinking, they are really close to the windshield. I never got the windshield to test fit. So 2 weeks ago, AFTER they had been welded in, I got the windshield down. It clears on the the passenger side, but not the driver...the windshield was resting about 1/2" off the flange sitting on the bar. Boy was I pissed. But then the more I looked at it, I realized the bar had moved towards the a pillar. So with all my ratchet straps and making some wedges, I was able to move it over towards the center. I had to then cut a huger hole in the dash to weld the dash bar in to hold it. I'll make a pleather cover or carpet cover to cover the dash when I am done.
It's good now with no gasket, so the space the gasket adds will probably leave the glass 1/4 to 1/2" away from the bar.
