Continued progress...
Rear wheel house and rocker repairs are done. After the seam sealer dried, I sprayed several areas with 3M stoneguard, then finished that off with 2k satin black paint. Without a professional gun I could not get an exact match to the texture of the factory applied stone guard but it's not too bad.
Since my pseudo paint booth was up, there was no better time to paint the fuel filler and the steel line that runs on top of the fuel tank.
Installed all new seals in the junkyard 3.15 differential and was happily surprised to find a Torsen LSD...not the Salisbury. The build date of the donor was mid '98 so I had assumed it was a clutch type but there must have been a changeover around this time.
An inspection of the brake lines revealed a badly rusted area in the main rear line towards the front of the chassis in the area where the firewall transitions to the floorpan. It did not look too bad initially but a quick poke from a screwdriver removed a large chunk of material.
I had heard good and bad about NiCopp/Cunifer brake line but had never used it....it is easy to bend but those same properties also make it hard to keep a long section from folding under its own weight as it is installed. I had also heard it could be challenging to flare but I did not seem to have any issues.....we'll find out later when the system is bled.
Making progress.....
Rear wheel house and rocker repairs are done. After the seam sealer dried, I sprayed several areas with 3M stoneguard, then finished that off with 2k satin black paint. Without a professional gun I could not get an exact match to the texture of the factory applied stone guard but it's not too bad.
Since my pseudo paint booth was up, there was no better time to paint the fuel filler and the steel line that runs on top of the fuel tank.
Installed all new seals in the junkyard 3.15 differential and was happily surprised to find a Torsen LSD...not the Salisbury. The build date of the donor was mid '98 so I had assumed it was a clutch type but there must have been a changeover around this time.
An inspection of the brake lines revealed a badly rusted area in the main rear line towards the front of the chassis in the area where the firewall transitions to the floorpan. It did not look too bad initially but a quick poke from a screwdriver removed a large chunk of material.
I had heard good and bad about NiCopp/Cunifer brake line but had never used it....it is easy to bend but those same properties also make it hard to keep a long section from folding under its own weight as it is installed. I had also heard it could be challenging to flare but I did not seem to have any issues.....we'll find out later when the system is bled.
Making progress.....
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