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dieselmiata Jan 3, 2012 10:32 PM

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I took a break from polishing and broke out the trusty old pickle fork. Disconnected the suspension inner workings and am starting the cleanup process. EVERY PART ON THIS CAR is coated in a nice 1/4" layer of Texas dust.:bang: But I'll take dust over rust any day. It's gonna look great after I clean and paint everything. I also put the injectors and fuel rail back on. It stands out a little more than I hoped. but we'll see after I get everything else put back together. On another note, during my reassembly of the crank boss, I found that my clutch is weak and in need of replacement. Time to drop the tranny...
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MF-Rick Jan 3, 2012 11:12 PM

looking real good!

oil cap needs to be aluminum and the fuel rail too :p I like it

Mazduh Jan 5, 2012 12:10 AM

Looks great... I wanna come over and see it in person. Also wanna hire you to polish my stuff too!

dieselmiata Jan 5, 2012 12:14 AM


Originally Posted by Mazduh (Post 7873)
Also wanna hire you to polish my stuff too!

:riaa::D

Yes, I really am that immature.

We need to get some sort of Chicago get together rolling. There sure are a lot of us.

Track Jan 5, 2012 08:21 AM

Looks great! I reallly wish I had the time to paint my control arms when I put in my bushings, but unfortunately I needed to get the car running as quickly as possible.

Maybe during some downtime, I will take everything apart, clean it and paint it. It would be nice to clean and paint the subframes too!

flying_solo Jan 5, 2012 09:34 AM

I too want to come see the work in progress. Looks like I could learn a lot. Going to begin my winter tear down this weekend. Nothing this in depth though.

dieselmiata Jan 12, 2012 09:27 PM

Moar stuff!
 
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Been a while since I updated, so here's what I've been up to:

Hard to see in the crappy pic (i'm not an artist) but my beltline moldings were in really crappy shape, so I pulled them off, used a razor blade to scrape all the old rubber off, and plasti-dipped them. Turned out better than I had hoped.

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My control arms were in pretty poor shape,
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So I pulled out my weapons of mass de-rust-ion
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Here is prepped, before paint:
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And afterwards!
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Shaved and polished my taillights, but they're pretty faded from 20 years of Texas sun so I may wind up finding new ones.
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Calipers cleaned/wire wheeled/painted. Looks new, right!
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Fresh undercoating, hells yeah.
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Dashboard is almost ready to come out.
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And I decided to give the 95 a bath. She needed it. Sad really, I've kinda been neglecting her ever since the red headed slut came into my life.
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flying_solo Jan 12, 2012 11:11 PM

Crap, I thought I was making progress this week by pulling the airbags and part of the a/c. Looks good man. I'll give you a call tomorrow afternoon.

Mazduh Jan 12, 2012 11:21 PM

You has lift. I want lift...

Schadenfreude Jan 13, 2012 12:40 AM

Holy hell, Aaron. I love the work space.


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