04.23.08
Clean and Sort, Clean and Sort…
This was mostly a parts cleaning day. I spent most of the day cleaning hardware, including the bolts, nuts and washers that attach the spring plates to the diagonal arms, the one diagonal arm king pin (and two washers) that I have, the hardware that mounts the bearing retainers over the stubs axle on the rear of the diagonal arms, and the hardware that mounts the spring plate retaining plate to the chassis. The bearing retainers and the spring plate retaining plates went in the pile to be media blasted. I disassembled the emergency brake cables from the rear brake backing plates and set all of the hardware aside for cleaning. The backing plates wint into the pile for the steam cleaner. I also discarded certain parts, including the pair of old half shafts, the accelerator and clutch cables and the emergency brake cables.
