Car Stuff

Well, this weekend I officially decided to purge a couple projects and actually continue working on some others.

The Dart in my garage has been sitting for a couple years now without much progress. So, this weekend I started reviewing the things I needed to get the project done. Biggest one was getting the car moved around in the garage now that I have all the suspension removed.

I ordered some casters from Northern Equipment and will fab up some basic brackets to mount them to the car. Should be fairly simple and then I can wheel the car around the garage without a problem.

Plan for the car next weekend...

1) Fab up casters
2) Remove engine and trans
3) Load up Dad's truck with all the scrap from the car (rear, springs, engine, trans, interior,etc...)
4) Clean up seam welding around rear leaf spring mounts and complete drivers side
5) Mock up rear end with fiberglass mono-leaf springs and install

That should give me a good start. After that I will send the rear out to get the finish welding completed on the spring perches and get it hung in the car. From there I can drop the tank out and install my new fuel pickup and start on the plumbing. I'll be running all braided line for the fuel system and I need to start on the rear brake lines also.

I figure if I can stay on top of it I can have a rolling car with the motor installed (not running) by the end of March, or April. Probably April since I will have to wait on some parts for the frontend to be completed. That would really make me feel like I've accomplished something with this project. I'm sure it would make the wife happy also to get the garage sorted out again.

Some where in this time I will also finish cutting up the cabinet on my Ferrari F355 Challenge driving game and move that to the basement. Maybe I'll through that in to next weekends jobs...