Back to the Galaxie

Right no more messing with stuff that isn't Galaxie from now on the only work will be undertaken to get the Galaxie on the road as soon as possible. (The smoker is finished and at home, the test run is this Saturday and the gray truck sold on Ebay for $1525 which was a tad disappointing but whatever).

So I got the bell housing off and then the clutch and the flywheel. Finally it is off the dolly and chain and mounted onto a real engine cradle. I have drained the fluids and tossed the oil filter. The next step is to wheel it out of the barn and pressure wash it. For the sake of removing 8 more bolts I can take off the inlet manifold and replace the gaskets. Whilst it is off I will spray the block blue and the manifold silver. It should look sharp. The sump will be yellow (and the answer to the question why? is because I can). The bell housing and transmission will be black as most of it will be out of sight.

I also gave the body another block sanding and then sprayed the rear quarters and wings in primer. The bad news was that it showed the defectsin the filler the good news was that there weren't too many of them. In fact I was very encouraged to see how close we are. Of course it goes without saying that I would much rather see the nasties now than after the final coat of Viking Blue.

Onwards and Upwards