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Continued cleaning

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Some painting

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A little Phosphating

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Assembling the control arms (which had been blasted and powder coated)

Used my homemade anti-crush device and the shop press.

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Nice ! Your anti-crush tool is much nicer than mine. I use a piece of exhaust tubing and the ends will scratch.

Agreed. I use a 1 3/8" socket wrapped in duct tape

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The backing plates and floor plugs on this car were dip galvanized. I was able to request a favor through a friend to have these done locally. :grin:

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Unfortunately this is probably the last batch of zinc electroplating that I will be able to have done locally. :no:

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Need to start getting some of these parts put back on
Rear Entry
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Spare Room
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The Incredible Hulk! :haha:

1970 L-78 Nova Restoration; Saga of The Green Bastard
 

Best I can figure this was sometime around May 2022. Getting ready to pull the body off the rotisserie. First hanging the front from the engine crane.

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Installed leafs, differential and fuel tank.

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Took some "liberty" adding aluminum drums.

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Then put the subframe in with jackstands under the frame horns and left the rear body on the back half of the rotisserie for a short time... (no pics of the bare subframe in)

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Sad that i didn't take any detail photos of rebuilding the steering box and brake calipers :frown:

Front suspension assembly... getting this thing rolling to go away for summer (need to bring the drivers home).

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