After the frame came out from under the car, I had to strip everything off of it to start sand blasting it down to raw metal. A tedious time consuming job, did I say nasty too?

Well, I made a rolling frame to set it on and took it  out into the driveway to start blasting it. After two bags of sand, I realized that it was going to take forever so I stopped and went to plan B.

At this point, I'm done with trying to blast this puppy. I loaded it up onto the trailer and took it to a commercial blaster.

$180 bucks later, it came back pristine! I ordered two quarts of Eastwoods Chassis Black and started brushing this. Turning it over wasn't an easy feat either. Two of us picked it up the first time and turned it but the next time, I enlisted my neighbors to help. Made a huge difference! ....and my back was thankful too.

The rear end had to be disassembled, cleaned of any oil and blasted also. This goes the same for the backing plates and spindles.

Ahhhhh....it's coming together. The Eastwoods is stretching out to paint everything.

Got the Moog K772 ball joints in on Friday and started bringing this Phoenix out of the ground! Leaf springs have been blasted and painted and are drying now. Going to dry fit the axles so I can mount the housing and put wheels on the frame to lower it back onto the ground. I want to dry fit the block and new World Class 5 speed to see what I have to do for a tranny moun.