December 2004

Finished prepping the passenger compartment. The red oval is the heater hose inside the longitudinal. This is the passenger's view.

This is the driver's view.

Close up of the driver's pedal area.

This is a shot of the area underneath the seats. I still have a very small section under the shifter and heater knob.

Shot of the tranny before removal of the side seal.

He used a small pry bar to remove.

This is the seal removed.

Installing the side input shaft.

Everything back together.

Here's a shot of the motor, just before I left Joe's house. He still had to hook up the throttle linkages, install the fuel pump and battery, and provide a fuel source. Joe called me the next day, as I was waiting for the flight home and he let me listened to the motor as it was running. He still needs to do some more tweeking, but I should be able to pick up in January.

Since I had already completed prepping the floorboards, I covered them with paper to minimize the clean up.

This is the driver's side.

This is the before shot. You'll notice that there are several areas that were welded from the engine compartment.

Besides removing the glue and paint, I also removed the seam-sealer between the bottom and top pieces.

Here's the after shot, from the driver's side. I have already added paper where the window was, because I'm going to finish prepping the engine compartment.

This is the passenger's side. The gray areas are where there was minor rust or a weld. I used AllMetal as filler.

I almost finished prepping the engine compartment, but ran out of time. In July I removed the paint and glue from the firewall, so today I began the removal of the paint from the rest of the engine compartment. I was able to remove the paint from the area underneath the engine shelf. This is a shot looking down into the compartment.

This is a shot from underneath the car. The red strip is the c-clamp that will hold the engine sealing rubber, I won't be removing this paint as it won't show.

Here is a shot of the back of the compartment, looking up.

This is the passenger's side. You'll notice the new batter tray and the suspension ear.

Here's a close up of the corner of the firewall and the side. There was a lot of seam-sealer in this area.

This is the passenger's side showing the corner of the side and the rear sections filler. All of the paint was removed with Aircraft stripper, then the hard to get areas where removed with paint thinner. Finally, the bare metal areas were covered with Ospho, the wiped down with a clean cloth.