First, here's the new battery installed plus a cutoff switch. Cut off switches are important in cars with old wiring harnesses to prevent fires. This location also works great, driver just reaches right behind passenger seat and turns off battery when done driving.
Next Ray worked on the brakes. New flexible lines and rear wheel cylinders are normally replaced, the pads and shoes plus drums and rotors all looked just fine so were left alone.
The handbrake cable was missing the portion for one side of the rear drums, so Ray installed a new one:
One shock absorber was missing it's link to connect it to the suspension, here replaced:
Ray replaced both brake and clutch master cylinders, could have tried to rebuild the old ones but new ones aren't that much more expensive and our success rate on rebuilds is not real high:
Clutch slaver cylinder installed:
Exhaust system installed:
Radiator was cleaned out by Dave at Brown's Radiator and reinstalled. Fuel tank was determined to not be repairable, too many rust holes. We are looking at potentially getting a good used tank from another source we know in Arkansas.
Ray has done a lot of great work, Vince is anxious to get his hands dirty too when he returns!
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