Date Description Tuesday, 01/01/2002 2 hours Removed front brake hose clips and cleaned and clear coated Decided to look at changing out lower control arm bushings right side is really gone Moved our old stove into the garage....might do a little powder coating in the future Attempted to remove the ball stud out of the center link......man it is STUCK! Wednesday, 01/02/2002 9 hours With all the front end parts removed.. steering and suspension up to upper control arm, cleaned and painted all the parts. Will need to press bushings off idler arm and bracket for replacement. Thursday, 01/03/2002 10 hours Pressed out and in new bushings onto idler arm parts, called Mid Canada Suspension to order new lower control arm bushings and started taking off lower control arm. Made up a ball joint pusher with a couple of bolts and a coupling nut.... worked well. Once removed blasted and repainted lower arm. Friday, 01/04/2002 8 hours After painting lower control arms, pressed in new bushings and then touched up paint. Found a small crack in the lower arm that had to be MIG welded, welder indicated this will be better than new. Installed new front brake hoses.and bled brakes Saturday, 01/05/2002 7 hours Removed battery and windage tray at front of engine for blasting and cleaning and repainting with chassis black. Found the water pump to be seeping again tried silicone on the bolts into the block to stem leaks...... seems okay???? weather strips are about $400 Canadian.......did you hear me flinch? Cleaned up old tie rod parts and cleaned Sunday, 01/06/2002 6 hours Replaced all battery parts back on car. Found that I had stripped out a strut rod frame bracket bolt .. I tapped and replaced it with a 1/2" instead of 7/16" New park light assemblies arrived from Oregon. I took out and replaced them with the new ones...... nice and clean now.......thanks to my friends PartNout in Oregon. Monday, 01/07/2002 2.5 hours Started to install all cleaned and repainted suspension parts including Pitman arm...man Torqued that cowboy to 140 foot/lbs. Cleaned up differential bumper and installed. Tuesday, 01/08/2002 2.5 hours Borrowed pressure testor for cooling system to see if I can see any leaks AGAIN!! system held pressure for 8 hours with no drop ... must just be seepage!. Adjusted hood hinge on right side for better alignment. Wednesday, 01/09/2002 1 hour Won a licence plate bracket and light from PartnOUT in Oregon ...man these are great folks to deal with. Ordered a new ignition switch and door locks from them as well. Friday, 01/11/2002 2 hours Took off fly wheel inspection plate to wire wheel and clear coat..reinstalled. Finally purchased my own torque wrench. Sent pattern of trunk extensions to a fellow in Knoxville, Tennessee. Started a test patch of colour sanding on the rear trunk lid. Saturday, 01/12/2002 5 hours Found another drip of antifreeze on the shop floor..DAMN.... Started to ask some of the fellows at AutoBodyStore.com questions on cleaning up paint They provided some great ideas on how to removed the orange peel and scratches Worked a little more on the trunk lid area with the wet sand, buff and polish.. pretty good results.. will take some work though to do the whole car. Sunday, 01/13/2002 3 hours Picked up some 1000 grit sand paper at Ctire and some cutting cream.. will require some 2000 grit sandpaper for wet sanding...... and some better buffing compound. Monday, 01/14/2002 4 hours Went to Chase Autobody Supply and picked up 2000 grit and McGuires #4 cutting cream for buffer. STarted on the trunk lid again..wet sanding and buffing....and then polish...wow what a difference and a smooth finish....will sure take some work to do the whole car. Picked up more buffing pads for buffer. Tuesday, 01/15/2002 3 hours Sanded and buffed out the rear valence and fender tops with paper, compound and polish picked up some Gold Class Wax for the final touch to protect the paint. Wednesday, 01/16/2002 3.5 hours Sanded out roof and roof pillars with 2000 grit, buffed polished and waxed. Licence plate light and bracket arrived from Oregon......with door and ignition locks. Thursday, 01/17/2002 4 hours Sanded out tops of doors along the side of the car, buffed, polished and waxed too Installed ignition cylinder from PartnOut Friday, 01/18/2002 5 hours Sanded out hood, buffed polished and waxed too. Installed licence plate light and bracket.... LOOKS PERFECT AND WORKS TOO!! Saturday, 01/19/2002 8 hours Buffed out Hood again as it was still a little dull, polished and waxed again too. Removed trunk lock cylinder. Called a friend to help rebuild the cylinder. Rebuilt the cylinder using the old ignition....works good..but not quite right.. will live with it installed the door locks from PartNout so now the ignition and door locks are on the same key and they WORK GREAT!! Sunday, 01/20/2002 7 hours Sanded out the right side of car, buffed and polished and waxed too> took some of the cutting cream to the interior turquoise paint and shined it up. Removed glove box lock to get a key made for it. This was a waste of time..just wait Monday, 01/21/2002 9.5 hours WELL guess what..I got a call from Ray at Special Interest Cars in Oakville ON He found a lock cylinder for me..and will send out!!...well so much for all the work I did so far eh?? Started to work on this page series for the Fairlane. Tuesday, 01/22/2002 6 hours Sanded out the left side of car, buffed, polished and waxed. Will require this side to be repainted as blemishes are just too deep to remove..went through paint in a couple of places. YIKES!! Wednesday, 01/23/2002 6 hours Buffed and polished the right side of car again...... needed some work from before. Work continued on the web page. Thursday, 01/24/2002 1 hours Had a close look at the car again and found lots of places to rebuff and polish again.... work continues again.. I think I have about 30 or so hours in the paint cleanup. 5.0L signs arrived today from Mustang Unlimited and removed the 260 V8 fender emblems. Saturday, 01/26/2002 3 hours Buffed out roof again, polished and waxed the area again. Started to think about removing the parts of the rear suspension for cleaning and checking. Sunday, 01/27/2002 3 hours Removed upper exhaust pipe body clamps to cleanup and repaint. Monday, 01/28/2001 2 hours Replaced exhaust brackets.... tested all the suspension bolts to see if any were frozen. I put some WD 40 on all the bolts just incase getting ready to remove it all. Tuesday, 01/29/2002 4 hours Removed rear leaf springs and related parts. Good thing I had read the info in the manual on how to support all the parts one I did some reading in the manual and asked a lot of questions of HANK. removed all front suspension parts up to the control arms including strut rods, stablizer bar..all brackets idler arm and pitman arm.. need bushings. Wednesday, 01/30/2002 6 hours Worked on one of the frozen bolts from one of the rear leaf at the front hanger to free. decided that I would reuse all the rubber bushings as they were in almost pristine shape just a little checking on the edges is all. Trunk lock cylinder arrived from Special Interest. Thursady, 01/31/2002 4 hours Removed the glove box lock again to get it keyed to the same key as the trunk.. lost out on a seat of seat covers on eBay...they went for $80US....yikes!