Finally! Ready for sandblasting...

 

Cleaning up the backing plates...

Transmission support

Removing the last stripped/broken bolt

Disassembly of the steering drag link

A-Arm cleanup

Draining the rear end

Struggling with the rear wheel bearing retainers.  Very rusted.

And unfortunately, a few studs for the rear axle housing are bent, thus preventing the rear diff. to be removed.  Grrrr.  We're gonna have Barry (our rear-end guy) take a look.

Parking brake components for sand blaster

Rear crossmember

All the parts to be sandblasted...

Sandblaster drop-off of chassis and parts

More pre-sandblast disassembly, cleaning & prep...

 

Drilling out some of the bolts that snapped off. Then removed them w/an EZ-Out.

More scraping...

More degreaser...

Onto the leaf springs...

They're pretty rough...but they'll clean-up nicely

Original 3-bands per leaf

Center pin is out

More wire brushing...

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...