More Front End Stuff (Day 16)

We managed to make it out to the garage again on Monday. It is rather pathetic that it took me 2 days before blogging about it. I was too tired by the time we went back in the house on Monday night, and yesterday I was dealing with a massive headache and didn't want to do ANYTHING but lay in bed.

Mike stripped more off the front end. He used a spring compressor and got the front springs off. That was a pretty nifty tool. Although I was a bit nervous since he told me before hand that if it slipped off... it could be dangerous because of all the pressure the spring would be under. Luckily no one got hurt and it didn't slip off.

This is the nifty spring compressor tool.

I told him to hold the spring up like a trophy but apparently he wasn't very amused.

He also got the steering column out. I once again told him to hold it like a trophy but this was as close as I could get to a smile. My assumption is smiling while working on a car is just not manly... but swearing and throwing tools is.

This is just a collection of stuff he took off the front of the car

So we have everything off the front of the car in the way of suspension and steering. Mike got a lot done... I actually parked myself out in the garage with my laptop and ended up not even working on my book (like I originally planned). I ended up on facebook chatting with two of my sisters and my niece. At least one of us got some work done.

We are getting to the point where we are running out of space. We are trying to figure out where to put all the car parts that have come off the car. All our storage seems to be full of car parts and there are still more to come. Once we get past the space crisis... we will then start stripping the paint. Hopefully that will be soon!

Another Mustang Purchase.. and no we didn't buy another Mustang

Today we manged to purchase wheels and tires for the '67. Mike was doing his usual KSL browse for Mustang Parts and noticed some Crager wheels and tires listed for $500. Cragers are popular styled wheels which usually sell for much more than $500. Long story short, we ended up not being able to pass up that good of a deal. In fact... we were able to buy them for only $440.

As you all recall, a previous entry showed pictures of the wheels I was planning on putting on my car... well not anymore. It is amazing how quickly things can change in a restoration. Maybe someday I will change the wheels out and go with the ones I was originally planning on... but for now we are going with Cragers.

We actually bought them from a guy in American Fork who knows Mike's parents. We didn't discover that till later in our conversation. He was talking about some people he knows who restored a pace car. W didn't realize at the time that he was talking about Mike's parents pace car. It was funny once we realized who he was talking about. Once he knew we were Eppersons, he could finally understand how we have so many mustangs.

The wheels are in really good shape and the tires are almost new. I think they have like 500 miles on them. The tread is very good. So now for the moment you have been all waiting for... Pictures!!

This next picture is of a '67 with my tires. This will give you somewhat of an idea as to what my car will look like. Except there will be a white stripe down the side... and the chances of me ever getting a picture of it in front of a palm tree is slim. Either way... you get the point.

Front Suspension (Day 15)

We headed out to the garage for a little bit tonight. It wasn't as long as we usually are out in the garage... but we made the best of what little time we had. Mike worked on taking off the front suspension. There is still more front end suspension to come off... but we will have to save that for another night. Here are some pictures from his excursion. The driver's side front stabilizer bar's bushings bolt (That is what Mike said it was called, I was ready just to call it the suspension thingy) was bent. The passenger side was fine. Luckily, the suspension kit I bought has a replacement of this.

Mike had a hard time getting the passenger side strut rod off. It took a torque wrench, a few bad words, and some broken tools to get it off. Actually only one tool broke... a screw driver. He was very relieved when he finally got that part off.

He was also able to get the steering all taken apart tonight. A fair amount got done, but we didn't get out to the garage until 8 pm to start working. Next time we will hopefully get out here sooner and have more time to get things done. I guess we will see.