Sleazy's Garage
In this video I cut off most of one of the sway bar brackets and rust prep the passenger side rear wheel well of my 1989 Ford Mustang GT Foxbody that I'm restoring. This was in the middle of a heatwave so I couldn't get that much done and the work was a bit physically exhausting.
Cleaning up the engine bay again. In this video I started drilling out the spot welds on the sway bar brackets, another coat of glazing putty on the strut towers, priming in the radiator support, and painting one of the inner fender wells.
Garage Extra Part 10 - For all of the grinding and metal prep I have to do, I decided I needed to replace my foggy, ill-fitting Dewalt goggles and 3M respirator combo with a full face respirator/shield with a light and a camera mount. Unfortunately I couldn't find any cheap full face respirators that had what I needed so I just bought some adhesive mounts and made my own on a budget.
Happy Fourth of July! More underbody and wheel well restoration. More sanding, wire wheeling, rust reformer, and general strife. This is another liminal video of grinding progress. I started working on the rear wheel well but instead went back to front and cleaned up the front wheel wells.
My father came up to visit and I immediately put the poor man to work sanding my engine bay with me. lol it was a blast, and we had a great time!
Sanding and painting part of the underbody of the Mustang. There's quite a bit of rust, I'm using Rustoleum's Rust Reformer to encapsulate.
In this video I removed a bunch of fuel/brake lines and some other stuff that will be in the way when I clean, sand, rust encapsulate, and paint/undercoat the bottom of the car.
Per the title, I have some of the worst weld beads on YouTube. But I want to get better. I bought some welding kits from Amazon. They're somewhat over-priced coupons of sheet metal but they're great for practice. In this video I'll weld up a CNA Fabrication's 2"x2"x2" 11 gauge steel cube. Not quite ready to do the cube challenge, but time for some practice!
OMG, it's done! The rear axle is complete! Torquing the pinion nut is extremely difficult but I managed to get a reasonable result. We get a decent pattern on the gear mesh. We get good backlash measurement. We get this hell project complete. Trying on the foxbodybrakes.com rear disc conversion kit. Installing the 5 lug 31-spline axles. Putting on our custom "Sleazy" electro-etched diff cover. Ooooo it's a thing of beauty!
Taking another beating trying to put this axle together. We get a bit further though, dialing in 8.8 Ford diff carrier shims, measuring backlash, and checking the gear mesh pattern. The new ring gear bolts finally came too so I install those as well. Unfortunately I was unable to properly install the crush sleeve so I'll have to wait for some help on that.