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Outlaw update, the body has been at paint for ten days and hopefully I'll get a call that it's done in a week or so which is ok as the winter weather forecast for the coming week is not good.  There was no tunnel or cables tubes mounting points etc. so that was done over a couple of days. I had a sheet metal tunnel bent to size, installed the transmission so that I could get the exact shift rod length I also moved the shifter placement back a little.

Spent a couple of days making brackets and mounts, going back over weld tacks and welding beads for the 1.5: dropped floors, tube mounts, pedal mount, shifter mount, shorten the shifter rod and rear sway bar bushing mount plates using a like new Hobart mig welder that a friend here gifted to me a few weeks ago !  Pulled the four Fox shocks from the chassis they will need 100 lbs of nitrogen and softer rear QA-1 springs. Did seam sealer on the floors yesterday afternoon, found a rattle can match for the 2 x 2" square tube red paint did that that and semi gloss black on the floors tonight.  Next is to bolt the trans back in the chassis, bolt the Neal calipers back on and bleed the brakes to see if the calipers that have sat for sometime are any good as no caliper rebuild kits are available. Will post a few pics tomorrow.

Went back to an old post from 2017 also an Outlaw build where I mentioned the plan for retirement and were moving to WV and there it was, me saying this was the last project..... Well that was just about six years ago and 16 builds....   Found I have early onset of COPD (age shyt )  &  get tired sooner than later but not a crisis but told to take it easy . Connie's extended recovery time from the PE's aka lung blood clots, so these issues have confirmed it's time re-examine my priorities. Hey we're good,  it's just another chapter & perhaps another trip to Carlisle is,  in the cards :~)

Last edited by Alan Merklin
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