Work on the front of the car has reached an impasse (need to find rubber sheeting to pattern replacement splash gaskets). Moved to the back of the car. Jacked up and removed the rear tires, drilled holes for and installed the carriage bolts (3 1/2" X 3/8" Grade 5) previously mocked up for the rear sway bar upper brackets, and started to work my way towards removing the rear axles to replace the Open 3.08 with the replacement 3.64 Posi-Traction unit (shown painted above with some red POR 15 I had laying around). Need to get a slide hammer to get the axles out. I'll replace the rear bearings, though the 50 year old ones seem to have held up well. Also have to look at new wheel studs--to be safe, they need to be about 1/2" longer for the steel Cadillac rims that adorn the rear.
Also time to start throwing all stuff out. As soon as I remove the old speedometer and knobs, I'll be tossing out the old corroded dash shown above.
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