The BAD AST Project - Faze II

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Got some work done yesterday. Mel came out and we worked on a bunch of stuff. We made the top plate for the steering shaft support bracket and got that welded up. We also pulled the modified rack brackets and ran all the brackets through the blast cabinet. here is the blasted steering shaft bracket.

After paint. I did this in hammertone silver.

The rack brackets were repainted with the hammertone black


While Mel was working on brackets I made a base to put casters on a new filing cabinet I picked up at a re-sale shop.

This is a nice cabinet. Full extension drawer slides and very heavy. I thought 28 dollars was a steal for this dude.


We actually started cleaning the engine compartment with thoughts of painting it bouncing in our heads... I will get the new wheel wells primed with self-etching primer and finish the seams but at least we are getting to that point!
The top of the cowl and firewall are pretty well ready for paint. We cleaned off 15yrs of grundge with degreaser and Scotch-Brite pads. Leaves a perfect surface for primer.



I even cleaned up the windshield wiper motor. I think this will get painted black.




We also brought the rearend in to warm up. I have some touchup work to do to it prior to assembly. I am going to try to get that done this week.

Today is my 35th wedding anniversary so I won't get much done out there today!
Thanks for looking
Mark