Swap Meet, Ball Joints, and Bushings
Sunday, July 19, Uncle Kurt, Uncle Jim, and I took at trip to Canfield to spend the day at Dave & Ed's Canfield Swap Meet. Uncle Jim bought the most stuff and he did end up visiting the ATM only once. I had been looking for a product called Por-15 for the past few weeks. It is a rust preventative. After spending a bit of time talking to a very knowledgeable person about it, I left the swap meet with a can at reduced price along with another product used with it. I also bought some work pants that ended up being too tight, a few chuck keys, and a few chamois cloths.
After the swap meet, my two uncles met me at my house, so that Uncle Jim could see my garage and my progress. He had a little fun with the neighbor kids as they rode their bikes up my driveway. We then took a trip to Harbor Freight before it closed to pick up a few things, before heading to Uncle Kurt's to do some more sandblasting. This visit was when the sandblasting pot was taken apart and the sand was filtered.
One of the days it rained last week, I couldn't do any sandblasting outside, so we decided that this would be a good time to remove the ball joints and the bushings from all four control arms. This involved a lot of hammering and the use various punches, the impact hammer, and the bench vise. Nothing too exciting happened when removing them, but we did have to consult the Internet for an image of the bushing to see what part actually needed to be separated from the control arms. The Internet is a wonderful thing.
