Same old stuff gets a new look.

I have been busy working on many of my summer "to do list" projects to get them out of the way so I can work on fun stuff, like the car. I got tired of looking at this box of dirty, rusty, oily parts which has been sitting around for a couple weeks. So I finally decided to do something about it. I continued to disassemble the drive shafts and clean up a couple other parts while I am still waiting for my wiring harness to come back. I know...same old, same old.

First step was to borrow a Dremel tool to grind off a couple rubber boot band clips which only took a couple seconds...but it was kind of fun!

Once that was done, I whipped out the utility knife to slice the rubber which was literally encrusted in place! Notice I saved the bands to reuse them. I will now only need to find new clips for them.

Once the bands were finally off, I taped and protected the parts so the delicate parts would not be damaged from hand sanding and painting. I was told not to sand blast these and I could understand why.

It does not seem like much was accomplished this week. But getting these parts to this primered state took nearly the whole week! Here are the drive shafts, a flange, the rear sway bar, and the copper pipe for the heater that gets installed on the engine with the manifold bolts. One flange is in the "primordial ooze" vinegar bucket.

Every time I see parts all primed up after all the hard work it took to get them to that state, I am always so underwhelmed. It always seems like there were at least twice as many parts in the "dirty, rusty, oily parts box" than there actually were. Everything will get painted black tomorrow and we will hopefully get the drive shafts all finished on the weekend. I will be working on other car stuff this week and will re-post in a few days.

Thank you for visiting!

Toddy