Did some more cleaning yesterday and today.
Trans Tunnel:
Front drivers floor around patched area:
Mid-floor and braces:
Hope to be done with the major scrubbing this weekend.
Category Archives: Camaro
RS Grill Filler
Located an RS Grill Filler which I will have re-chromed. No cracks or pitting:
73 Seat Belt Repairs
Received some pictures of my seat belts that are being worked on – in no particular order:
Cleaning Trans Hump
Spent a little time in the garage tonight. Focused on the back portion of the transmission tunnel. Before:
After:
After:
Cleaning misc floor and trunk
Made some progress. The passenger side is almost complete. Working on the trunk area then the wheel well which has undercoating on it. Then on to the other side.
Had a few pieces to remove that were getting in the way:
Braces – before:
After:
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After:
Needed to go back over the firewall bracket and rocker edges:
After:
Rear frame rail and trunk:
Will go over the trunk area one more time, then focus on the other side. Then will go over one more time with some wax & grease remover on paper towels before stripping it down to bare metal.
73 Seat Belts
Purchased a set of one year only 73 seat belts:
Also located someone that repairs the female ends to make them stronger as they have been known to crack and break – the 4 female ends will be replaced with parts like what is shown below:
The plastic piece shown above is known to break under the constant pressure of the spring used for the button.
Scrubbing Trunk (Street Side)
Did a little more scrubbing tonight – still more to do on this section. There is some baked on oil that is being stubborn.
You can really see the oil stains when it is wet. This might take a while (several sessions).
Scrubbing Front Passenger Floor
Got a little more done on the floor after work today.
Before:
After:
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I still need to go back and hit the braces. Having a variety of scrubbing brushes and maintaining a good supply of hot water definitely helps!
Scrubbing Rear Passenger Floor
Made a little progress this weekend. Started scrubbing the bottom of the floor. Used a bucket, pump sprayer, and brush. Also combined a little PurplePower in a few times. Slow going and sore arms!
Before:
Making progress:
Happy with the results! Getting an idea of what the rest will take and about how long. Also, it will be better to do it in a bunch of shorter sessions rather than all at once! This is the passenger side rear seat area.
Rear passenger foot area:
Looking towards the rear of the car:
Looking towards the front:
Next will be the front half of passenger floor:
Before:
I wanted to get a head-start and an idea of what is required. Still more to do, but progress. Also had to go buy some more brushes.
This is going to take a while to clean!!!
Rotisserie Info
I have been looking for information on my crank style rotisserie from Northern Tool. I found one topic here and more recently a video for a rotisserie kind of the same style here:
They talk about if you are really putting your back into cranking the car on it’s side, you should re-adjust for a better center of gravity so it turns easier. The cranks have shear pins which could break if you are cranking too hard. I asked a question on this page and will see how they respond to how much weight the crank can hold.
Hopefully someone will find this useful.