Looks like my order with stage1restoration.com is arriving on Thursday. I'm dying to put this mousetrap back together. Just noticed the driveshaft is painted silver too...im forever removing silver paint!!
wow, you are one anal sob LOL. maybe you will sell this one day and i will buy it and sell mine as i am to lazy to do this kind of work! on a side note. did the 70 gsx come with close or wide ratio muncie? also are they the 660 case or 661 case?
I think its a 660 case. Yeah, im very detail oriented about this stuff. Even with the beater, I sweated the details on that car too
Just wait till I put lower ball joints in it! I'll have to suppress my urge to rip the whole front end off it!
Hi Larry The spare ball joints which I bought are AC Delco and it states on the package that they are made in USA.
Thanks Brett! No pictures, but the driveshaft was painted rather poorly. Who ever did it actually put a purple and black stripe on it... but I digress...I stripped the driveshaft of all the silver paint. What a mess! It came out good though. The shaft actually looks good stripped. Not pitted at all. Just surface rust. While its out, im going to throw a new set of u joints in it.
Jason, Your restraint to not go over the cliff on this project and do a full blown restoration is admirable. I've tried the route you are taking now several times, but in the end, the cars I got invloved with were fully restored and consequently rarely driven. Driving our cars, and not just looking at them in a garage is where the real joy is.
Driveshaft is 90% cleaned up and degreased. I pressed the old joints out too. You can see some areas of the driveshaft are still clean, bare steel. You can even see the bluing from the weld.. There must of been grease protecting these areas. You csn also see the remnants of the silver paint Yoke is in good shape You can get an idea of its overall nice shape. Just a light coating of surface rust
I made a 5' long tube with 4" PVC and a cap at the bottom, with a screw on lid at the top. Put driveshaft in, fill with evaporust. Come back two days later and it's completely clean.
Jason, great work. Just curious as my OCD is very similar but didn’t the “probably not a good idea” alarm go off leaning the driveshaft against door next to car, first thing I thought of when I seen pic..lol
