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Cleaning and Painting Donor Parts
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have made a lot of progress on painting suspension components. The
engine has been cleaned, but is still waiting on a paint job and
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| Here we have the engine stripped down and are getting ready to clean paint. We aren't going to overhaul it, but we are going to replace all the gaskets and the water pump. |
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| As you can see the engine cleaned up nicely. It too a lot of engine cleaner and spray paint to get it to look like this. |  |
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| We had a problem with two of the water pump blots that were rusted to the timing cover. First we twisted off the bolt head, drilled it out and inserted an extractor, twisted off the extractor, drilled out the extractor and still couldn't get the bolts off. So we cut off the timing cover and then we were able to remove the bolts from the block. A new timing cover was $25 at the junk yard. |
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| The wiring harness looked like quite a mess when we pulled it out. Rather than take a chance on screwing it up we sent it to Roger Stine in California for a diet job. While it was there it lost about 25 pounds. Best $350 we spent so far on the kit. |
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| The budget did not allow for new chrome valve covers so we did the next best thing and decided to polish the aluminum valve covers. |  |
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| Although the pedal box will not be seen once the panels and body are on, we just couldn't bring ourselves to put a rusted one into the Cobra. |
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| The rear axle underwent a significant transformation. Lots of elbow grease and paint. The new chrome rear end cover didn't hurt either |  |
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