She's came a long way...

[driller]

You're in the death match now. Do you have an air chisel?

I had to use an air chisel on one that was rusted bad. I literally chiseled the mount out in pieces. Of course even once this is done, the fun part is replacing the bolt. I used a 1-1/2" hole saw in the side of the body mount location to gain access to the nut. You can use electrical knock-out plugs to plug the hole with some body sealant and then some underbody coating.

 

[Lvnmarks]

By the sound of it I would skip right to the hole saw and cut the retainers. You can still make it pretty and save time. But that's what I would/will do.

 

[Dmaup]

I was hoping to skip that part of the process. I guess we shall see what tomorrow brings.

 

[Dmaup]

Is this bad?

 

[driller]

Is this bad?

Only if it breaks and you get a black eye.

 

[Lvnmarks]

Yes, only because you now have to waste time going to Sears to replace it. I have broken then too, wonder in there is a stronger one out there that's not as much as a snap-on.

 

[Dmaup]

Well the damage is done it finally fell out after some "aggressive negotiations".

3 of the 4 bolts broke and the 4 decided to be a pain and make us crank on it the whole way

The front 2 upper bushings were powder, nothing left to them, and we had to make Swiss cheese out of one of the good rear ones just to get the thing to drop.

So now I am for sure making a set of bushings for myself unless someone can point me in the direction of a different option that may be a bit cheaper.

Ill try to get pics of the carnage in the next day or so bit my heater went out in the process making the last part of the removal rather cold.

 

[Ford nut]

No fun.
I do hate rust....

 

[chris2523]

yep. been there. was a lot of fun.

 

[94m5]

I hate those craftsman breaker bars. I've split every single one I owned in that exact place.

I bought a nice Matco bar and never looked back. I don't buy Craftsman anything now.

 

[93hotrodlincoln]

Love the car! is that a T45 trans?

 

[Dmaup]

Love the car! is that a T45 trans?

yeppers

 

[Dmaup]

Well this showed up at work today.



Guess it's time to put in a Saturday and make myself some new sub frame mounts.

 

[jnot42]

wow! very nice!

 

[Dmaup]

Well with the wife out of town this week I have finally had some time to work on the car. I got the subframe out from under the car and managed to get it all disassembled. My garage is a absolute mess at this point but I need to just power on so that when I finally get some free time at work I can get my mounts made.

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I picked up some sad for the sand blaster to clean up the main section but grossly miss judged how much it would take to do the job. I'm picking up 3 more bags after work tomorrow and should have everything cleaned up by Wed night. Couple pics of what it was coming out like.





I'm going to order some new differential mount bushings this week. Does anyone have any suggestions of where to get them? I found a decent price on CJponyparts.com looks like its around $50 for the front and rear set.

 

[Lvnmarks]

Are you going to powder coat the sub-frame? I'll hopefully will be doing this in the spring and I'm planning on just dropping it off at the powder coater for him to do the sand blasting.

 

[Stone17]

Check out supercoupeperformance.com

Poly Differential Bushings for the front of the dif housing
https://supercoupeperformance.com/partBrowser.aspx?partId=189

Rear "UHMW" Mark VIII Lower Control Arm Bushings
https://supercoupeperformance.com/partBrowser.aspx?partId=854

Rear Upper Control Arm Bushing - Inner
https://supercoupeperformance.com/partBrowser.aspx?partId=536

Rear Spindle/Knuckle High Performance Polyurethane Bushing Kit
https://supercoupeperformance.com/partBrowser.aspx?partId=240

 

[Dmaup]

Are you going to powder coat the sub-frame? I'll hopefully will be doing this in the spring and I'm planning on just dropping it off at the powder coater for him to do the sand blasting.

I was originally going to powder coat it's access to cheap powder coating went dry and it's just not in the budget at this time to pay to have it done.

 

[SCTBIRD1173]

Nice work getting it out. I dread the day I want to drop mine... :frown-blue:

 

[Sierra3]

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That's a different way to get it done. Haha! Looks hacked until you cover it all up (and take the damn argon gas cylinder out).

heheh I was gonna ask about the welding bottle as well. Beautiful car man! Love the blue color as well. I would love a stick shift car again, Miss my IROC Z and old Trans Ams sticks, but for what the mark is, mines staying automatic.

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