nutsnbolts
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And so it begins! Or continues... our ‘68 300 project started in 2012- after 8 years of ownership, one of the freeze plugs started to leak. I had a shop at the time, so the plan was to yank the engine out, change the freeze plugs, and put it back. 2 weeks tops. It was a 15,000 mile car, and everything was in pretty good shape, but when I pulled the plugs the block had a great deal of rust and scale in it. Since I didn’t want any cooling problems, I tried to clean out the water jackets to no avail, so I tore the engine down and sent it to the machine shop for a bath. Everything looked good inside, so I figured I would do bearings, seals, and rings, and paint it since it was out anyway. But then I couldn’t put the fresh painted engine in the shabby engine conpartment, and to really do it right I had to take apart the inner and outer fenders. But then the subframe looked shabby so I took that out, tore down the suspension, and painted all of the parts, replaced all of the nuts and bolts, and put it back together. But then the paint on the body was flaking here and there, so I had the underside media blasted and base/cleared. That work got finished in 2015. Fast forward to this month, where the body is back to another body shop for a complete repaint. The good news is that there is no crash damage, and no rust except some small spots under the vinyl top on the C pillar. Stay tuned- I’ll update as time goes on. In the meantime I’ll upload some pics...
I’m definitely going to need some help finding parts in the future!
-Rich
I’m definitely going to need some help finding parts in the future!
-Rich