9/30/12. Been a while but I'm slowly working on it. Over the last couple of weekends, I've taken the factory AMC20 out (3.15/open) and tacked in the Control Freak 4 link brackets.
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9/30/12. Been a while but I'm slowly working on it. Over the last couple of weekends, I've taken the factory AMC20 out (3.15/open) and tacked in the Control Freak 4 link brackets.
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I took it to a local place called Blast-Tech. They did everything forward of the firewall, front fenders inside and out, hood and trunk lid inside and out, and inside the trunk, along with the hood...
7/27/12 Been a while. Got the Rogue back from media blast today.
Tore the front suspension out and built some rollers.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/tufcj/Rogue/MVC-646S.jpg
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4-29-12. After a couple of months of sitting due to work and some health issues, I got back at it. The glass is all out, all fuel and brake lines out. Just a little touch up on the welds, and it's...
Brought her home a couple of weeks ago, but haven't had time to work on her till this weekend. Test fit the front clip. Got the 67-69 tail panel in, the back glass and the rest of the interior and...
I'll check on the clamps. Probably Snap-On, most everything Jim has is from Snap-On.
3/17/12. Didn't get to do any body work, so I did some assembly on the engine. Installed crank, cam,...
3/10/12. Got the engine back from the machine shop. The block is a 68/69 390 I've had in the shed for close to 10 years, it was bored but never finish honed. Crank and rods were originally from...
3/4/12. Got the tail panel out today. Didn't get more done because the compressor at Jim's shop broke.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/tufcj/Rogue/tail1.jpg
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2/26/12 Got the Rogue off the frame rack. Just some final welding and grinding to do. We found that the "weld through" primer was a problem on thin metal. When we would crank up the heat enough...
2/20/12 Haven't had time to work on it for a month. Family in town, snow storm, sickness.
Got the cowl and core support set and tacked. Cross measurement says we're within 1/16" of true in all...
Kinda slow here. I bought a 66 Rogue back in October. It had been wrecked in the driver front corner some time in it's life. The sheet metal had been replaced but the inside structure had been...