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My Dad bought this car in 1976 after my parents got divorced. It was his hotrod and one of the things he did to it was to paint the brake drums blue to match the body paint. I think this was pretty commonn back then. At some point he re-painted them black, you can see the old blue paint in this...

Looking at the spring plates it looks like the shock mount stud was friction welded to the plate - what do you think? I thought friction welding was a fairly new technology.

^^^ What he said^^^ Not to mention the engine stays cleaner !

Use your horse to pull the car over on it's side then It's real easy access to the trans . . . that's how my dad did it with his Studebaker!

More painting -

Black Oxide treatment for the rest of the harware -

Use a brake pressure switch plumbed into a brake line. Folk race cars sells 'em.

More "Spring cleaning" Got the yoke painted & re-installed - Hangars painted -

Hardware restoration - I went with a Black Oxide treatment for all the nuts & bolts for this project. I don't know what the factory did but this is much better than painting them. Wire wheel them, de-grease them, throw them in the solution, dry, then soak 'em in any oil you want. I used ATF...

Question for you guys hauling your racecars in enclosed trailers - I'm looking for a good quality Blue tooth camera that uses your phone as a monitor/display. Anybody have a recommendation?

My Vinnegar, lemon juice & salt soup was able to loosen up the undercoating enough on the spring hargars for me to easily scrape it off. Now they need a wire wheeling then paint. Lastly I got the "chunk" painted, I used Eastwood Spray Gray Cast steel replication.

I had just enough paint left to paint one backing plate last night. On the left is what it looks like after going over it with a scotch bright pad and on the right is after paint. I feel that he color is a fairly close match to the bare steel.

I'll do that!

Ok, I wasnt sure if it was or not - just being cautious.

I did that to mark the shaft & nut for re-tightening.

Good tip, I got it back in place with a couple 90 degree picks.

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Next it was on to spring assembly - Clamps installed and ready!

Pinion seal fun - Pulled the yoke off to replace the seal, whoever installed the seal needed more training or maybe it was late on a Friday, I forgot to take a pic but it was not driven in all the way and it was crooked. Never the less it wasnt leaking. I was surprised to see that it was the...

Back at it - I treated the backing plates to the same Vinnegar, lemon juice & salt soak. Here are some before pics - And here they are after a few days in the soup - this stuff work great. After I wash the parts off with water & backing soda I spray them down with brakecleaner to keep them...