Washing was done not only on the exterior part of the body but the interior part as well. Underchassis has been thoroughly sprayed on and most of the dirt and dried mud came off easily.
Well done on your purchase and you efforts to keep the cruiser in tip top shape.
When you removed engine, it looked like their was a oil leak around the oil cooler, was that the case or was it some other cause ??
In general where was the main leaks on the block and what were the causes , once you could do a 360 inspection
Oldtoy74, When I did the 360 inspection, the most visible leak was coming out of the valve push rod cover. The crankshaft oil seal both at the front and rear showed signs of leak, the valve cover was also a source of the leak. The oil cooler also showed some signs of wear so was the oil pan. Attached picture below as you can clearly see, comes from the valve push rod cover and had replaced it with a fabricated gasket.
Before I post the removal of the body from the chassis, I would want to share first the making of the dashboard. I find it pretty neat and I guesss the color, gunmetal, is a go.
We had to remove the front and rear bumper, the winch, grill, radiator support, hood, fenders and aprons. Then the all rusty body support had to be carefullly removed with all the penetrating oil. The lifting of the body was done with an A-frame and a chain block. Took a lot of wood, to be used as spacers, hydraulic jacks, nylon cords, square tubes and hours of figuring out how do we do it. Everything was easy once we lfted the body. Wheeled out the chassis and then lowered the body to a dolly specially built for the project. Chassis went through washing with a lot of degreaser and all purpose detergents. The under chassis was also repeatedly sprayed on until we have removed all dirt.
The chassis is next to be rebuilt. We scraped the dead paint and applied a coat of red lead primer. However, we decided on epoxy primer to apply a coat over old but original paint.
