Re: Henry's 55 Constellation
Posted by Cli55er On 2009/2/10 0:42:16
i agree. i am bias to bias ply as well. LOL! 
this weekend i did nothing to the packard, instead i worked on my truck. installed my lift springs and new ball joints, etc... it sucked...
today i moved on to the packard. i put the backing plate back on and put the seals on after. i painted the backing plate with 500 degree engine paint in satin. i figured with the heat from the brakes it couldn't hurt. see pictures, i was inspired by BigKev to take photos of each step. i also painted the sway bars and link in their final stage of paint.
believe it or not, but the silver look pieces on the passenger's side that i was putting together are polished, i did not paint them with silver cad. i used the bench grinder wire wheel to polish them and seal the metal. i have put water on them and they don't rust...darnedest thing i have ever seen, but i wont argue as i like the polished look better and it keeps me from having to paint all the time.
i also clean up the end of the e-brake cable, nice and shiny now ;0) soaked the brake cylinder in pb blaster as it was pretty cruddy.
i was at a family members autoshop today getting the wheel alignment done and saw an old blast cabinet in the corner (this is an old shop) and asked about it. nice big one too, stand up version w/ door on the side and top opens too. offered to buy it, he said he would think about it and let me know. it will need new seals and window, etc...but i think i can get it pretty cheap since it is just sitting there doing nothing. wish me luck on that, cause as much as i like my homemade one...i sure would like to stand up and not hunch myself over mine, which sux.
next is blasting the other backing plate and putting the driver's side together. once i put the axle in the passenger's side, it pushed the driver's side back out a bit, funny thing is that once i put the shims up to it, it took up the exact amount of slack that was needed.... so, yeah me!
enjoy the pics....and for some reason my bias ply tires got delayed...but they are still in UPS hands, so they will be here although a bit later. i will post pics of those when they get here.
i also made my own seals for the torsion bar bearings out of pipe wrap. it worked perfectly. bot the torsion bar bearings mounted, but still have not connected the motor to them. you can see were the nuts chipped off some of the paint, will have to do some touch up later.
saw some rather rare cares on the way to get new exhaust on my truck...i gave a thumbs up to the lambo and he was not a jerk and he revved for me and took off like a bat outa hell! too bad i wasn't in my z3..(supercharged), i might have gave him a run for his money.
later dudes,
Hank
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this weekend i did nothing to the packard, instead i worked on my truck. installed my lift springs and new ball joints, etc... it sucked...
today i moved on to the packard. i put the backing plate back on and put the seals on after. i painted the backing plate with 500 degree engine paint in satin. i figured with the heat from the brakes it couldn't hurt. see pictures, i was inspired by BigKev to take photos of each step.
i also painted the sway bars and link in their final stage of paint. believe it or not, but the silver look pieces on the passenger's side that i was putting together are polished, i did not paint them with silver cad. i used the bench grinder wire wheel to polish them and seal the metal. i have put water on them and they don't rust...darnedest thing i have ever seen, but i wont argue as i like the polished look better and it keeps me from having to paint all the time.
i also clean up the end of the e-brake cable, nice and shiny now ;0) soaked the brake cylinder in pb blaster as it was pretty cruddy.
i was at a family members autoshop today getting the wheel alignment done and saw an old blast cabinet in the corner (this is an old shop) and asked about it. nice big one too, stand up version w/ door on the side and top opens too. offered to buy it, he said he would think about it and let me know. it will need new seals and window, etc...but i think i can get it pretty cheap since it is just sitting there doing nothing. wish me luck on that, cause as much as i like my homemade one...i sure would like to stand up and not hunch myself over mine, which sux.
next is blasting the other backing plate and putting the driver's side together. once i put the axle in the passenger's side, it pushed the driver's side back out a bit, funny thing is that once i put the shims up to it, it took up the exact amount of slack that was needed....
so, yeah me! enjoy the pics....and for some reason my bias ply tires got delayed...but they are still in UPS hands, so they will be here although a bit later. i will post pics of those when they get here.
i also made my own seals for the torsion bar bearings out of pipe wrap. it worked perfectly. bot the torsion bar bearings mounted, but still have not connected the motor to them. you can see were the nuts chipped off some of the paint, will have to do some touch up later.
saw some rather rare cares on the way to get new exhaust on my truck...i gave a thumbs up to the lambo and he was not a jerk and he revved for me and took off like a bat outa hell! too bad i wasn't in my z3..(supercharged), i might have gave him a run for his money.
later dudes,
Hank
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