[Essex_29]

Thank you all!

I got the body hoisted onto the frame and all bolts fitted, nuts threaded on. Then I noticed
that the frame poked a blister into the rear of the body, so now I will have to move the body
back and lift it some 6 inches to get in with the grinder and cut off a sliver and try and get i
t back into position.
Never too easy.

[TFoch]

Sitting nice and low!  Looks great!

[Rattiac]

Can't wait to see it with the fenders on.  Gonna look so cool. 👍

[sammons]

Essex, there is always a bump in assembly. Usually something small, but a pain to back up and correct.

Looking good man!

[Essex_29]

Thank you for the positive comments!

I just came in from the shop after having a bit of success. I lifted the body in the front, put some
wood between the body and the frame in front, then moved the hoist back, lifted and pulled backwards,
and got the rear end up some 6 inches. Then cut, ground and painted the ends of the frame rails,
then undid the lifting and sliding, got out the wood, and now 7 out of 8 bolts are back in.

The rubber pad cut from 1/8" thick rubber sheet at the last bolt hole had moved, and I just gave
up for tonight. Now I can hammer the blister back and smooth it over with some epoxy and filler. I
noticed some flaws in my bodywork around the right hand side rear wheelwell, so there's some
more bodywork pending anyway.
I caught a cold last sunday, and it's of the persistent kind, the last week hasn't been very productive.
I try to keep away from the garage, but that's no fun.

Keeping indoors, I got busy drawing and ordering stickers for the project. A custom tach gauge I'm
working on, a sticker for the Air Maze Air filters and some shop stickers I designed just for fun.

[Essex_29]

After two weeks mostly being indoors, I'm trying to get back up to speed.
The body is now bolted to the frame. Driver's side door fits nicely, but the right hand door, not so
much. I need to get a shim under the B-pillar. It's impossible to work the body mout bolts
without a helping hand, so I will procrastinate with that task until someone comes and pays
me a visit.



Today I mounted the steering shaft properly to the steering box, just the top most universal joint
is loose still, since I have to tidy up the steering column before final mounting.



My home made shifter with its white HURST ball is done and works great. It too has to be painted still.

[sammons]

Looking good!  Keep it up man 👍

[Essex_29]

Thank you sammons.

I got some stickers that I drew and ordered. I like how the gold on black sticker fits right in.



The original stickers were yellow with black and orange text.

I've been working on fitting everything into the cowl area. It felt like a lot of space to begin with, but
it will be pretty packed here when all is said and done.
The red knob at the top is the main battery switch, it will bare be visible under the dash. two fuse
boxes for a total of 14 fuses + a main fuse near the battery. The fuse boxes are mounted to the
front of the right hand A-pillar.



Yesterday I made a sheet metal mount for the little ECU that will power my ignition, it's to the left
 of the clutch pedal assembly, also behind the dash.

The roof panel got done last night with holes for the wiper motor wiring drilled for rubber grommets, and
twin dome lights.



The roof panel was bodyworked and primered today.

Now slowly working with wiring, plumbing and such.

[Essex_29]

I got the clutch to work a few days ago. Feels like a win.
 No big thing in it self, but when I had made the hydraulic clutch line and got to the point when it
needed to be bled, I coouldn't get any fluid pumped up through the bleed screw and up to the fluid
container.
The next day I bought a bleeder thingy that works off the air compressor and sucks brake fluid
through the bleed screw and into its own contaner.
No fluid came through, and I had already taken the push rod away to check that the master piston
was indeed in its right position (pushrod fully out).
I took the bleed screw out after noticing that the slave cylinder started sweating brake fluid
around it.
Of course the bleed screw wasn't drilled right!
The holes were deep enough, but drilled so out of true, that they didn't meet. Ubelievable.
The quality we get on car parts nowadays...

Cost me at least an hour of work and a drive to  town for a lot of nothing. Good thing I work for free.

[TFoch]

I love how that roof panel turned out!  Nice work!

[sammons]

Love the decals! Real classy in black and gold. Everything is looking very nice.
Yep, quality is job one😒

Just got done installing a new brick moulding and new storm door on garage walk in. New HD closer and a spring chain stop which i didn't have before. Everything went smooth till the last step of the little spring that holds up the chain when door closed. Chinese instructions, all pics were of right hand open door except the last pic of spring. It was inverted, a left hand open door🙄 I turned a 3" spring into a 9"spring

[Essex_29]

Thank you TFoch and samons.
Work has been real slow during the Christmas season, not only because of my lack of
inspiration, but more so because I have done so much thinking and planning. It seemed
 almost impossible  to get everything to fit under the dash, but I think I have most of it
figured out by now.

I got a new batch of Epoxy, the kind I use is sold in 2-1/2gallon cans, this time it will last
this project and then some.
I sprayed a light coat over the radiator, then painted it semi gloss black. Obviously it's not
ideal to paint a radiator, but it looks so much better in black. And behind the tube grille I
made earlier, it wouldn't look good at all, aluminumcolored.
The grille shell and visor were epoxied too.



I got lucky and got an answer to a wanted ad, and this new, unused in box Edelbrock carb
came today. The same kind as the 500 cfm one I have had for some time. These carbs cost
about $580 here in Europe, so finding an unused one privately was real nice.



Finally, as my wife has been emptying her parent's house, she found some photos snapped
in the spring of 1991. Yours truly proudly posing with my 1970 Pontiac LeMans, working on
assembly after I painted it in my brother in law's garage.

[FATnLOW]

So much work to bring these old cars back to life..I find  it satisfying and challenging.... Keep at it

[TFoch]

Awesome picture with your LeMans!