I decided to go digging

[Meltshop Mikey]

I've been wanting to dive into this since I picked her up and to satisfy my curiosity of whether the stub was trashed or in good shape. Surprisingly, it's in pretty good shape after scraping buckets of what looks like ziebart tar. Worst soint in the frame was the outer mounts, but I slicked those up. As far as the under body of the car I've been scraping piles of the tar off and haven't uncovered any huge surprises. I'd say she's in pretty good shape for going on 51 and sitting for years. I've been chipping away since February an hour here and there after work or on a day off. Considering pulling the trigger on a firm feel suspension rebuild kit and was also able to score a set of nos isolators for the rear of the frame, still on the hunt for the 4 for the front. Even found a near perfect build sheet under the driver's carpet, that's the 3rd one so far.

 

[Meltshop Mikey]

A little after work peckering around to document. It's definitely not perfectamd needs cleaned up, but it's better than rot so it'll do.

 

[Meltshop Mikey]

Slowly but surely she's coming along.

 

[Fratzog]

Nice to see that you have enough solid metal to work with. Look forward to further updates.

 

[Meltshop Mikey]

Threw on some color so her value has increased exponentially

 

[Meltshop Mikey]

Front half of the underside is finished coated with KBS rust seal and topped with their blacktop top coat. I'm pretty happy with the results this stuff seems to be very tough. I'm saving the back half of the car for another time, the front was a big enough pain in the ***.

 

[Meltshop Mikey]

It's been a productive 2 days of vacation so far, just need to find a gasket for the heater box and I can move onto the frame.

 

[Meltshop Mikey]

I set the frame out in the sun to bake and soften up what's left of the goop on it so I can blast it off and found some rot under the plastic splash shield. For 51 years old I can't complain, shouldn't be too hard to patch up.

 

[Meltshop Mikey]

Some Thursday night fun. I'm no welder or I just have a crappy china freight flux core to work with, but I'm happy with this repair.

 

[Meltshop Mikey]

Turned out to be a good day weather wise so I threw on a few coats of paint on the frame and got my front end rebuild kit from @mobileparts so it's turning out to be a good weekend!

 

[mobileparts]

What you all don't see in these photos is Meltshop Mikey's arms , forearms, and physique.... Mike is --- Stronger --- than a " C " Body's Frame and Front End !!!

Good work so far, Mike.... Keep it going when you can and are motivated....

Craig.....

 

[Meltshop Mikey]

What you all don't see in these photos is Meltshop Mikey's arms , forearms, and physique.... Mike is --- Stronger --- than a " C " Body's Frame and Front End !!!

Good work so far, Mike.... Keep it going when you can and are motivated....

Craig.....

Thanks Craig!!!

 

[Meltshop Mikey]

Getting closer to rolling it back under the car!!!

 

[detmatt]

Nice work!

 

[Meltshop Mikey]

Nice work!

Thank you!

 

[Meltshop Mikey]

She got her legs back today!

 

[Meltshop Mikey]

Had the day off so I took the steering box for a rebuild at Power Brake X-Change in Pittsburgh and took a stab at some amateur patch making.

 

[Meltshop Mikey]

Not too bad for my first actual attempt at a body patch. Little low, but some fiberglass and mud will take care of that. Surprised I hardly had any burn though with the flux core.

 

[Meltshop Mikey]

Not professional quality by any means, but I'm thoroughly satisfied.

 

[Meltshop Mikey]

Some more progress.