Chassis prep before media blast...

 

Degreasing and cleanup prior to sand blast

Lots of scraping & wire brush...

Chassis is just about ready. Moving onto clean-up of addl. parts...

Parts shipping for refurbishment...

 

Shipped out the radio and speaker/power supply unit

As well as gauges & clock...

And wiper motor...

Down to bare chassis

 

The front crossmember shim plates are disintegrated.

Second shim plate

Yellow tape indicating the body mount shims

Parking brake levers

Top view; shock

Rear axle vent line

Documenting brake line routing

Brake line clips into chassis

Brake line and fuel line through chassis

Note Fuel line cushions through chassis

Parking brake boot

Interesting stamping

Documented locations of all body shims

And labeled them all prior to removal

Rear shocks removed

Brake lines will all need replacing

Lots of LiquidWrench on everything

Passenger side rear shock being removed

Aluminum body mount support

Brake line clip removal

Rear leaf spring shackle removal

Rear shock absorber mounting plates had an aluminum spacer added (to raise the rear-end a bit?)

Onto the Driver-side...

Lowering the leaf spring

Rear of the chassis

Rear frame crossmember

Both leaf springs and the rear crossmember

Removing the rest of the brake lines

Been using a lot of heat on the rusted bolts

Even so...

Documenting the last remaining clips prior to removal

Removal of last groundstrap

Bare chassis

Parts inspection.  ID'ing what to restore, what to replace

Bag 'n tagging parts