Sleazy's Garage
Y'all know when the holiday season comes around the garage goes off the rails and we make some silly projects. This year is no different. Slight cringe alert, Lubracio said he's bored so let's make him a friend (programmable face ghost).
Painting my car door and installing the heater box assembly - It's been over a year since I rebuilt the heater box assembly in my foxbody Mustang but now that the firewall is completed, we can reinstall it. But first I have to make sure the blower motor works. And of course, yes there is a bit of work on the driver's side door thrown in as well, but this isn't a door window!
This restoration is unhinged... In this super quick video, I removed the passenger door hinges, and sand blasted the driver's side hinges. I also vacuumed out the door and sprayed a little more rust reformer inside of it to prepare it for primer.
Rust encapsulating my driver's side door - In this video I cleaned up the legendary rust on the window frames and sprayed rust encapsulating on the door itself.
Did we just hire a new garage employee? - It's raining and it's going to be for a few days so in this video I'm finally getting back around to some stuff I put aside.
Hammering out a 25+ year old dent. Autobody folks, please look away... - Continuing the driver's side door restoration. Removing the latch, hinges, pushing out a dent that's been there for at least 25 years, and starting to remove rust. There are a lot better ways to remove dents than this.
Taking apart the fox body mustang doors for restoration - In this video we first check out the bumper support from last week, then start taking apart the driver's side door to prep it for paint. Getting the glass out and removing the original run channel molding was certainly a learning experience.
Sand blasting and painting bumper supports and cold blue on the hardware - Decided to start tackling some of the backlog of parts I have to get sand blasted and painted. The front bumper supports were really grimy though so I fired up my new parts washer for the first time and it really impressed. I only managed to get one out of two of the bumper supports done but all of the hardware was cold blued. I spent a lot of time in the garage today and I didn't get a lot done. But what I did do looks pretty good!
Ouch! Sound deadening on the foxbody is almost done... (so sharp!) - Between the fine edge of the sound deadening, razor blades, and a super sharp battery box it's really a wonder that I didn't get worse cuts than I did. But we're pretty much done with the install I think. I have no idea what the next step is.
Quick diagram and explainer of why it's common to move the battery to the trunk in a rear wheel drive vehicle.