`70 road runner, FC7, 383, 727 It`s waited long enough, finally time to get it done.

[Hemirunner]

After getting a smaller hone and trying to clean the bores up I realized the rust pits are too deep so probably won't seal well and tear up the new rubbers so I'm searching for better ones. Part number 2881613 if anyone has a couple to sell me?

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I’ll look and see what I have. Are those the front or rear?

 

[torredcuda]

Rear, haven't pulled the front apart yet.

 

[torredcuda]

Decided to grab the trunk lid and start pulling back the crimped flange along the back edge. I knew it was swelled from rust but wasn't sure how bad it was going to be, when I opened it up I knew there was no chance of saving it as it literally starting peeling off along the edge. I'm not sure what I'm going to do - finish pulling the whole skin off, just sandblast and repair the back edge, try to find a nice used one or go with a new AMD? I leaned it back against the wall for now. Sing along - All I want for Christmas is a new trunk lid.

 

[torredcuda]

So my plan to just blast the lip and see what was left changed due to the weather - today was 30's with some snow squalls (luckily no accumulation) - so instead I started splitting it apart to gain access to the inner structure. I split the bottom edge but also needed to open the hems on the ends but after going about 10" I said screw it and decided to just separate the whole skin from the inner structure. About another hours work and it's apart. I know the lip was rusted anyway but I'm sure the mouse nest made it worse. There was also an old brazed patch covering a hole.