Sleazy's Garage
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.
This video marks the 1 year anniversary of the first Sleazy's Garage video! I decided to do a quick retrospective on the last year in videos, give a monetary/channel update, talk about where I want the channel to go, and finally thank a lot of friends for their input over the last year. It's a lot of talking though so if you don't want to listen or don't care, feel free to skip it or mute it and watch some highlights of the foxbody mustang build.
This video is mostly just me fighting with the outer pinion bearing race. I noticed some galling/burrs in the seat so I needed some new tools. We get the new axle bearings installed along with new seals, created a pinion setup bearing, and pulled the new wheel studs into the new 31-spline axles. Incredible amount of work over multiple days for not really a lot of progress, but we get there in the end.
I bought a cheap but really highly rated 5" vise from Amazon to replace the tiny one I bought from Harbor Freight. This is a remove and replace of my old vise and some info on why it failed. My workbench really sucks still though.
Starting to put it all together now. In this video I assemble the carrier with new bearings and a new ring gear. My dinky harbor freight vice is not big enough and I ended up ripping it off my workbench.
I bought the cheapest 6-ton hydraulic press that would get here in a reasonable time frame from Amazon and when it arrived the box was in shambles. In this video, I unboxed it and gave it a quick review while also making it do some work. What I got was not exactly what was pictured in the sale page but nevertheless I was extremely surprised by the results. Vevor, "manganese" springs? I use it to press the bearing off the old pinion gear and check the spacer thickness. Also tried pressing out a wheel stud from an old ford foxbody mustang gt front rotor.