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Up-date: Frame stripping and POR15 painting
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Re: Update: Frame stripping and POR15 painting
Aero,
If you can push Santa a little more, go with the gas engine powered unit. BIG difference if you can swing it. You won't be disappointed either way, but the gas engine is huge for pressure over the electric motors.
Aero,
If you can push Santa a little more, go with the gas engine powered unit. BIG difference if you can swing it. You won't be disappointed either way, but the gas engine is huge for pressure over the electric motors.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:] What kind of mess was the shop in after each stage?
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Not too bad Tom, considering the age of the car. I'm just glad that we're on the assembly side of the project.
https://www.74tr6.com/brakerestoration.htm
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:] What kind of mess was the shop in after each stage?
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Not too bad Tom, considering the age of the car. I'm just glad that we're on the assembly side of the project.
https://www.74tr6.com/brakerestoration.htm
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Soup,
Stock springs and stock bushing kit (front & rear) from TRF. Actually, it was their Magic Kit for the front suspension with all of the bushings and attaching parts. I figured that the original stock bushings lasted for 34 years, so the next set should get me through till I'm too old or feeble to drive the car.
The hard part was making an order of every other bolt, stud and nut that goes in the front and rear end, so as not be short anything when the time comes to assemble. I thought that I had it all and was still on the phone five times with Dave at TRF to ship something else right away.
And no, I didn't bother to put it into a spread sheet, but if I got all of my invoices together, I probably could.
But then I might have an idea how much this whole project really cost me and that would probably not be a good idea.
Soup,
Stock springs and stock bushing kit (front & rear) from TRF. Actually, it was their Magic Kit for the front suspension with all of the bushings and attaching parts. I figured that the original stock bushings lasted for 34 years, so the next set should get me through till I'm too old or feeble to drive the car.
The hard part was making an order of every other bolt, stud and nut that goes in the front and rear end, so as not be short anything when the time comes to assemble. I thought that I had it all and was still on the phone five times with Dave at TRF to ship something else right away.
And no, I didn't bother to put it into a spread sheet, but if I got all of my invoices together, I probably could.
But then I might have an idea how much this whole project really cost me and that would probably not be a good idea.
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Paul,
I too have the Magic Front End kit waiting to go into my 6 once I get the back end done. I've got a good handle on the rear end hardware but if you could give me an idea of what is missing from the front end kit that would be great so I can hopefully avoid a couple of last minute small orders. I've been meaning to do an inventory of my front end parts box, but I've been focusing on the rear end at the moment.
I don't need an exhaustive listing; just an idea of some items to watch out for would be great (I wouldn't want any cost insight to come because of a question I asked <grin>).
Ken
THANKS!
Ken
Brosky said:
Paul,
I too have the Magic Front End kit waiting to go into my 6 once I get the back end done. I've got a good handle on the rear end hardware but if you could give me an idea of what is missing from the front end kit that would be great so I can hopefully avoid a couple of last minute small orders. I've been meaning to do an inventory of my front end parts box, but I've been focusing on the rear end at the moment.
I don't need an exhaustive listing; just an idea of some items to watch out for would be great (I wouldn't want any cost insight to come because of a question I asked <grin>).
Ken
THANKS!
Ken
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Ken,
Check your email. The jpg and pdf files that I made are too big to post here, not because of size, but the quality that I had to use to get the part numbers clear in the invoice.
The cost was about $78 for the needed bolts, studs and nuts.
Could I have bought them cheaper? Probably, but I didn't have the time to search all over so I took the TRF Blue Book, pages 219 & 220 and ordered away.
Ken,
Check your email. The jpg and pdf files that I made are too big to post here, not because of size, but the quality that I had to use to get the part numbers clear in the invoice.
The cost was about $78 for the needed bolts, studs and nuts.
Could I have bought them cheaper? Probably, but I didn't have the time to search all over so I took the TRF Blue Book, pages 219 & 220 and ordered away.