The Chassening

Dhiaghia: The Chassis

Kristin and I righted the chassis and installed the 1970's Sears wheels (tres sweet, non?). We cleaned all the tar board, rust, styrofoam, and crap from the floors and tunnel. It actually looked nice for a time until the tar boogers covered the floor.
I installed the "heater" channels.
I am afraid that I managed to assemble the front beam incorrectly, because the trailing arms seem to be pointing too far down (they would need to be compressed to install the dampers). I do not know when I will get to rebuilding them as it was a PITA.
The current arse pain is the rear end: the damper mount on the one trailing arm was beat to hell and back. I am going to steal an arm from Brent's hideous chassis that the Ghia body came with (so you know it's good!) and adjust the rear ride height while I am at it. I started disassembly. WATER came out of the rear torsion beam housing!? WTH?

I won't be touching the car again until after Christmas ;_;

Volks Roddin'

No current pictures since we finished the under side and flipped it over. It looks like not just a car, but a race car now! The channeled pan looks hot. We welded the new "heater" channels (2x3 steel) to the pan (I can weld vertically now without burning myself enough to go to a hospital! The welds look passable too.). The floor is actually stiff and it does not instill fear when I step on it now. The body could go on next, but I think that we should finish scraping off the tar board, clean the rust and crap off the rear suspension, and repair the damper mount on the trailing arm while there's easy access to it all.

There will be pictures next time. Really! For now, here's a video from a few weeks ago: