Gas tank; Old & New

Sanding the existing (original) gas tank cross brace

Cleaning/painting the original hold-down straps

Painting the cross brace and straps

The original gas tank was just too corroded inside to use

Note the original (upside down) St. Louis stencil & part #

The view inside the gas tank

The new gas tank arrived…

Stencil to re-create the original markings…

Just like the original (note: it will also be upside down, like the originals were, when installed)

Rear leaf spring assembly…

9-leaf rear leafspring

Clamped together as the spring is assembled…

Assembled with center bolt & leaf liners

Time to install new ‘mount cups’ in the bottom leaf

Using Gary B.’s “swaging tool” to swage the cups

Both cups installed

Rear leaf spring is ready to go…

Front Suspension work…

Before…

Now…

Lower A-Arm bumpers

Clear coating the VIN# chassis stampings that were left bare steel

Driver side lower A-Arm installed, starting passenger side

Lower A-Arms installed

Upper A-Arm bumpers installed onto chassis

Upper A-Arms getting installed…