Well, I just wanted to throw a little update out there. I've got the car back up on the trailer and blocked up. I've dropped the front suspension and rack and pinion. I've also pulled the rear end out from under the car and started pressure washing it all off. I still haven't gotten any of my most recent orders in the mail yet, but I'm hoping to be ready to start painting the underside with some rubberized undercoating by the end of the weekend. Once everything starts going back together I'll try and get some good pictures of it. All of the pressure washing in the world still hasn't cleaned up the tunnel though, so I'll be on my back scrubbing until it comes clean.
I've got some more looking around to do, but I need to find some donor material for the passenger side inner fender. I've already got a plan on fabbing up a new battery mount, but I'm not sure whether I want to try and find a panel to cut and weld in place, or if I'll have better luck just finding some material to work with and banging out my own replacement.
If you've got any experience with the rubberized undercoatings, or with repairing that inner panel, I'd like to hear from you guys.
Oh, and I know I mentioned the remade water neck in a previous post. If you look close at the second engine pic I posted above you can see a really good shot of it.
Uh, I also feel obligated to mention that I painted my exhaust manifold with some of that high temperature black paint. Which has to be cured by baking it for and hour or two at either 400 or 600 degrees in an oven. Now I know that the can clearly indicates that this should be done in an outside oven, but who has an extra oven outside for baking parts? So, when I informed the other residents in the house that it was Manifold Manicotti that was in the oven I got some very strange looks. If you decide to follow my lead on this one, can I suggest doing it on a day when you're at home alone and can open up some doors and windows. The paint itself didn't seem to be too bad, but some of the deposits inside of the manifold started to smoke and kind of pissed some people off. Not to mention that they weren't too happy with the timing covers hanging from the fireplace mantle to finish drying. Oh well, you can't make everybody happy all the time. I do want to get a picture posted though after the carb is rebuilt with all of it mounted together. The old style ford blue looks great with the black parts.