I never did post anything about the exhaust manifolds. I've cleaned them up some, I think I've located a car wash I can degrease them at so I can paint them.
More clean-up inside where I pulled out the rear seat belt. It's not as bad as I thought it was. Then again, I don't really know what I'm doing so maybe it IS as bad as I thought it was, or worse, and I'm just ignorant to the horror. I'm tempted to start wire-brushing away flaked paint and rust, but I'm not cutting that out and fabbing new pieces anytime soon, so I let it go. Once the motor and tranny are out I want to wheel it out of the garage and really clean it out.
I don't know what the body panels are named, I'm sure I could learn with a proper service manual. Anyway, I got the first body panel off today, the one that goes from fender to fender on the front top there. Took out the headlight mounts to get it out... they're pretty dirty and rusty. I wish I had a blasting cabinet... and nice air compressor, 60-gallon tank, etc....
Passenger-side with the stuff gone. I want to get the fenders off to fix and clean up/repair everything underneath... and make it easier working on the frame and all of the suspension components.
I can just cut those rusted parts out and weld in patches, right? Right. :-)
The removed piece that I don't know the name of. There's a nice furry surface of rust inside there.
My shelves of parts and baggies. The rest are in the trunk.
I still can't figure out how to disconnect the shift linkage. Of course, I also haven't researched it, I just lie there on the cold floor and look at it, maybe cleaning it up a bit with shop rags. I loosened the transmission mount bolt, also, so that's ready to pull out once I figure out how to disconnect the shift linkage. The tranny fluid cooler lines are still there, too, I'm going to replace them though so I'll just cut those out when I'm ready to pull it. Also have to disconnect the speedometer sensor/sending unit, but that's a no-brainer. (famous last words?)
The passenger-side floor plan should just be replaced, also. I can see a constellation of little pinpricks of light coming through the floor on that side. Might as well make the floor more solid. While I'm at it, the passenger-side rear floor is dented up pretty good, not sure what happened there. It looks like the car was dropped on a boulder or something.
