What would you do? LYRAD'S PROJECT

Lol, your'e right it is a tight fit. Take a wiggle and jiggle or two but it works.

I finished tweaking the air bag brackets, lining them up correctly and cycling the suspention from fully compression to max lift was a test of my nerves, But turned out good after a couple attemps. The shrowd was a tight fit so I decided to install it now, before the engine goes back in the Old Girl. Always nice to be bolting stuff back on....enough tear down.








I also finished hooking the steering back up, I replaced every joint, rubber part, drag link and king pins. It cycles nice and smooth now.

Last week we welded in our new rear spring mounts, we just ran a rod through the old brackets and the new brackets..... eye balled it up a bit and zapped them it into place. quite EZ.

Yahoo!!! it fits.... got the diff. hanging from the springs and moved it through the full range. Gotta love it when a plan comes together, Rear air bag brackets next.

That's looking real nice Lyrad.

Thanks Big W. I hope that the air ride system works as well as it looks.

Thanks for the progress pics Lyrad. Looks like it's all starting to come together Ohhhh Soooo Nice!

LOOKS SWEET !!

Looking good ! I keep going back to the wheels n tires , love those

looking very nice..every thing looks like it belonged there.

Thanks guys, It made me very happy to see that big diff. mounted on the springs. I checked my suspension with a plumb bob and it is seating in there squared, dont need to worry about that any more. Moving on the engine repair and fresh'n up is now ready for clean up, paint and detail.

Went to Pick a Part on the weekend and found some different seats for the Old Girl. They should end up being about 2" lower then the buckets that are currently in her.





picked up a short bench aswell, but not sure if I will use it.

Lyrad, what were those seats out of? They look sharp!

Thanks,

Paul

Hey Paul, The bucket seats are out of a 2007 Cobalt. The passenger seat is going to need some mod's to fit, its a good 1/2" to wide. The bench is out of a Dodge Caravan

Lookin Great -I also must compliment you on that nice garage you have too !!

Lyrad, thanks for the info and good luck with that passengers seat!

Twinpilot001 wrote:Lookin Great -I also must compliment you on that nice garage you have too !!

Thanks TP1, the garage the seat pic's are in is my home work shop. The Van pic's are from my buddies garage, it has heated floors, lift and lots of space.


It was a late night last night, I finished the cut down on the passenger side bucket. I cut 1" off the width for it to fit in the Old Girl, it took 4 hours but turned out perfect.
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Nice job, you really have to look for it. If you hadn't said anything, I would never have noticed! That buddie's a keeper for sure with the nice heated garage!

Great job on the suspension restoration! You definitely have enough tire on the back

Making good progress, got the lower air bag brackets fabed up to the rear diff. and the the diff. back in the van again. Next week the upper bracket, then it can be buttoned back up. It will be nice to see a floor back in the Old Girl. The day light continues to get longer each day wont be long and spring will be here.

Looking good Lyrad! That's one nice lookin rear-end you got there! lol

She's lookin real peeeerty!

Lookin Great Lyrad - yes here in spokane -way south of u temps forecast to be 50F by friday- i sure wish i had a nice garage with heated floor to work in hehe
keeep up the good work there

Wow Lyrad, I just read through all 10 pages and am just lovin your setup. I'm gonna have tonnes of questions for you as I do up my 67. You'll have to come down to Calgary this summer for a show or two. Anyways, keep the pics comin', I'm already addicted to your thread.

Thanks for all your kind words guys.

Started buttoning the rear up, it will be nice to see a floor in her again.