Sleazy's Garage
Another short video this week, I had an hour to spend removing wiring harnesses from the inside of the car. I removed the main body harness all the way back to the tail lights and freed up the hatch harness. Also removed the overhead harness that connects the dome and map light.
In this video, I drop the k-member from my 1989 Mustang GT and remove some other things. Short video today, one of my dogs is recovering from TPLO surgery so I haven't had much time to get in the garage.
In this video I fold up and rivet a piece of galvanized sheet metal into a box with a hinged lid. This is a huge failure because I wanted to leave some room for a switch and some external power access (and also because its a pile of really sharp garbage). It was a fun learning experience though and I got to use my sheet metal machine! Huge props to those who shape sheet metal for a living or whom'st are just really good at it.
In this video, I remove the front suspension from my 1989 Mustang GT. The intent is to replace it with a tubular K-member with coil overs, SN95 spindles (5 lug hubs), and better brakes.
Finishing up the removal of the Ford 8.8" 3.73 rear axle. I forgot how awful drum brakes are. The parking brake cable is annoying.
Part one of dropping the rear Ford 8.8 axle from my mustang. Uncovered some surprises! Something about jacking a car up onto four jack stands always slightly terrifies me.
This the second part of the heater box restoration. In this video I gave the rusty bits a quick rust converter spray, test the heater core and evaporator core for leaks, plastic weld a big cracked corner together, took apart and scrubbed the fan box, and finally glued the heater box together with the new evaporator core in inside. Then we put the thing back together, finish painting some stuff, and put it in storage.
This is the worst thing I ever had to do for this Mustang (so far). I got a replacement heater box used from Ebay and I decided to split it in two to replace the evaporator core. It involved a heat gun, screwdrivers, a deadblow hammer, and way more force than I was comfortable applying to 30 year old plastic. Never again, lol!
In this video I'm welding up all the holes in the strut towers to prepare the entire engine bay for smoothing. I ended up cutting out small plugs to fill the larger holes. This will likely be "part 1" of this section of the engine bay because I didn't do the back sides of the strut tower or the side facing the firewall.
The wiring harnesses are removed, cleaned up, re-taped and put to the side. Where necessary new wiring harnesses are spliced in and wires are inspected for splits and corrosion.