68 firebird project from Pontiac
I used the sandblaster on the front fender extensions because it was a bit rusted. Then I used body filler to fill in the pits that the rust made. I now realize it is best to just buy replacement parts for these because they are only about $40 each. The front valance panel had some surface rust also. I used [...]
The passenger fender was installed a week or two earlier. Then I cleaned up under the hood and brushed on the rust oleum gloss black oil based paint. I read online that some folks mixed in a hardener to make it just about as good as products like chassis saver. But then I also read that hardener is not needed [...]
The best paint imo for rust and making non body panel surfaces cleaned up is Chassis Saver. Instead of driving around town for it, I tried rust oleum rust and reform. It seems decent but I later switch to regular ole black rust oleum oil based paint. For the price, the oil based product doesn’t seem much worse than chassis [...]
After over 10 years of pausing work on the 68 bird, I decided to pick up where I left off. The body panels were still off the car. I had to hammer out some dings. Then rework the metal patch that was welded in the bottom side by grinding out some edges. A little more weld was added and then [...]
After the fail with hoisting the engine on a lift plate, I decided to just use a engine lift bar. The bar or beam basically hangs over the middle of the engine and has four chains which can be bolted down to the 4 sides of the block. Once you have the engine lift bar bolted down, you can slowly [...]
There are a few different ways to pull out an engine and I was trying to find the best option. For my first attempt, I decided to lift the engine with a bracket bolted down to the intake manifold. With the carburetor removed, an engine lift manifold bracket can be tightened down to the surface. I learned a lesson here [...]
