Post #47, 5/28/12 Shop Transformation, AC Cover Plate

65 Mustang Restoration

It's amazing how often things don't go as planned,,, had a whole list of things we wanted to get done this weekend,,, but it didn't happen, instead, we ended up doing a major Spring Clean-up  in the basement, storage shed & the garage. Seven pickup truck loads on Saturday,, need I say more? But with the bad, comes the good,,, and in this case, the good was all of the new goodies that we got for the garage, which mainly consisted of a new toolbox & a 80 gallon air compressor, got the old shop radio hooked up, and a bunch of organizing got done.

It'll be nice to finally have a compressor that can keep up with the blasting cabinet and the body working tools.

 It'll also be nice to be able to find tools instantly, and the extra work space will come in handy,,, it's amazing all of the missing things that show up when you do a complete cleanup. 

One of the items I did come across today was the very nice, extra front AC Evaporator front cover that I got a great deal on. I have been wanting to get it on it's way to the guys that re-chrome these type of parts since it can take a few months to get back(always planning a head).

This cover plate really seems to be in very good condition,, even the two switches look to be in pretty decent condition. I had never messed with one of these setups before, I thought it was pretty clever how they used the little clips to hold in the registers,, very simple , but effective. Below is a pic of all of the parts that were part of the cover. The knobs look pretty nice, they just need a good cleaning.

We did get a chance to do one of the things that I wanted to do to the Stang this week, and that was to remove the rear frame jig that I designed & built for the car. I can't even imagine how terrible the job of replacing all of the parts of the back half of the car would've been without this contraption. I was actually surprised at how easily it came off of the car.

Below is how the jig looks from the back side.
 

The 2 round tubes of aluminum, are the bushings that go into the bushing holes on the rear frame rails.
 

And this is one of the Super Important mounting pads that goes up in the slot where the rearend rubber bumper is normally mounted.

 Now that the jig is out of the way, it should make it a lot easier to get to all of the areas of the rear floor,, maybe next weekend,,,,

Till then,,,,,