Quote Originally Posted by Irelands child
Good grief Allen, I hope you were able to get past our babble and get something out of this very long thread that mostly Randy and I have kept up.

Randy, I screwed up both of my hood sides and had to order replacements from Rootlieb yesterday - had them leaning against my trucks back bumper while cleaning the garage then backed over them - got 'em mostly straightened out but still really look nasty, and since I need to be doing other things on the car now, so, $230 delivered later ....
OH Dave, now that sounds like something I would have done!!!
I'm sorry, man, that really sucks!

I'm moving along slowly on my car.....I finished getting the Chassis Engineering trans mount and X-center section installed yesterday. I'm impressed with it's strength and design when using the orignal chassis. They have 40+ years experience at this stuff and seem to know what they're talking about. I also re-enforced the frame supports that run from the X-member over to the frame rails. Per the Chassis Engineering tech guy, I welded (yes, with my new welder and all by myself!!) a 1"x1/8" strap around the perimeter of the frame support, re-drilled the holes and re-installed it. It stiffened it up quite a bit. My welds are not "picture perfect" but they are under the car and up against the floorboard, so after I get them painted, they will go virtually undetected.

I finished cutting out the floorboards and now can clean and paint this part of the frame. Yes, it would be nice to remove the body and do the frame really right but that just can't happen right now. I'm going to plumb the brakes, etc. while I have access through the missing floors. I'm anxious to get on with it. Of course, if I win the lottery or something, I'm going to abandon this chassis and scurry out to TCI and get one fully tricked out!!!

Hope all is well on your end.....aside from running over your hood and stuff.......
It rained here this morning, so naturally we had "STORM WATCH 2007!!!!" I'm glad I grew up somewhere else so I can chuckle at all this "drama" over these everyday occurrences...ya know?

Randy