The steps I took before the car was painted

To make it easier to move around, I placed my rear end on one of my wheel dollies. I had no idea that these dollies would come in so handy for so many different things. There's my ol' buddy hang'n out with me again.

What I'm going to do is remove my emergency brake components because I won't be using them. I never made any provisions for having one and I didn't really think I would need it.....by need it, I mean use it. I know I need one to be legal but oh well.

There were more pieces than I expected and I lost another three pounds of weight in the process. The rear end is now ready for paint. I got all my other pieces ready for paint and put them in a box. The other pieces that are being painted are my brake pedal, brake push-rod, master cylinder, the piece that I made to replace my power brake booster, transmission cross-member, rear sway-bar, front and rear disc rotors (the part that the brakes don't touch near the center is the only part being painted here), steering linkage bracket and a few other small parts. Bart (my painter) said it would be about a week before he would have all these pieces finished which is much faster than I expected. Once the chassis is painted, I can take over the body and while Bart is working on that, I can start reassembling the chassis.

One thing I didn't like was the way my engine was resting on my engine stand. What I mean is the weight of the engine was causing it to droop down real bad and I was afraid it would break a weld on the stand which would mean the engine would hit the ground. Call me paranoid or call it thinking ahead, but I made some pieces out of 1" X 1" X 1/8" angle iron so the engine would sit level without the risk of falling. By placing the braces under the motor mounts and the other end against the stand, there're locked in place and now I have piece of mind. These took me less than an hour to make and is well worth it to me. I'll be documenting the whole paint process on the body along with pictures so be sure to drop back by soon.

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