Chassis

01-10-11

Here are some brake line line installation pictures that were requested by forum poster Chris Wilson from New Zealand.

Here is the front area looking at a close up of the brake lines.

This view is from the front of the vehicle looking towards the rear.

Looking at the bulkhead where the brake line and clutch line come from the underside of the car.

Overall view of the engine bay area.

Distribution block on the right side of vehicle.

Brake line across rear member going towards the left side of vehicle.

Brake line on left side of vehicle where the flex line would attach.

Chris I hope this helps you out with your project.

10-30-11

Finally got the pedal assembly out.

What a PITA. You just need the right combination of angle and twist to get the pedals out the opening.

Here is a pic of the assembly out of the car.

I took this to remember how things go back together. Got several other views as well.

10-03-11

Well, silly question about getting the e-brake cable off.

How do you do it?

The manual says remove the clip, pull the pin, and you are good to go.

However, mine looks almost riveted on. There is no clip to remove and on both sides of the bracket it looks like a rivet head.

Here are a couple of pictures, but they are not all that great. Hard to get the right angle with the right amount of flash, but at least it was up in the air.

You can clearly see the "rivet head" I was talking about in this picture. On the opposite side it looks the same.

You can kind of see on this side the "rivet head."

I have to be missing something easy right?



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Well, here is how she looks with the stock engine bay. It does not look like much, but there are lots of plans rolling around in the back of my head.

A couple of under car pics on the 4 poster. Very little rust if any under here. The valence is wadded up from the run-in with curb, but generally the rest of the underside looks pretty darn good.

Here are pictures of the frame damge from said curb and the valence.
The frame had been straightened and I got the receipt from the shop that did it with the purchase of the car. However, one is still nervous about these things. I did the carpenter X measurement technique from the suspension pickup points and the dimensions were within 1/16". I am assuming there is some measurement error in there with using the plum-bob and such but that is pretty darn close.

Magically the Cleveland and ZF are out as well as most things in the engine bay.

Another magic picture and the undercoating has been scraped away - thanks Dad!
Harbor Freight multi-tool which was originally listed at $53 and I got it for $20. I picked up 2 of them and some scraper blades. The motors are total crap and heat up almost too hot to handle in about 10 min, but then put them on a nice fan blowing air across the motor and you are good to go in about 10 min. It works out perfect because after about 10 min of mindless scraping you are ready for a break.

It does not get into all the nooks and crannies, but the media blasting will take care of that.

The underside of the car is also completely scraped too, but I just don't have any pics yet.