Day 27 - Playing with the Sandblaster

After work today, we ran off and bought some Aluminum Oxide sand blasting media so Mike could actually use his new toy. So then we came home and he got to try it out. I am happy to say the sand blasting cabinet works wonderfully. I even got to try it out. It was kind fun!

As you can see, there is a huge difference in the shock tower caps. The one of the left was freshly sandblasted, where as the one on the right hadn't had a chance in the sandblaster yet. I am very impressed with how well they cleaned up.

Mike then went in the garage and worked on getting the rear leaf springs off the car. He ended up having to cut the end of the leaf spring into pieces in order to get it out.

This is what is left of the end of the leaf spring. It isn't pretty. Luckily we do have new leaf springs for my car already, so it wasn't a big loss.

Mike was showing me how the number on the leaf spring shows that they had never been swapped out. This is an original Mustang leaf spring. So I guess for the fact that it's one less original piece on the car... is kind of a bummer. That's ok though, at least they are off.

Mike also kinda cleaned up some of the undercarriage a bit and tried to get rid of a lot of loose dust. There is still some more paint to be stripped in a few places as well. Oh we also will be getting the floor Piece ordered on Thursday, so hopefully we will have that in a few weeks and can get it welded onto the car. That will be exciting!