A Fabricobbler's Guide to the Turbo Buick Galaxy- Cutlass Rehash

[81cutlass]

Got sidetracked on house remodeling and model building the last month back to this one!

Fabricobbled some shock mount relocation brackets and bump stop mounts. Ordered and installed some wheel studs and finalized rotation of the f body rear disks.

Welded half of the tube to ends on and ran out of argon. Glad they make grinder wheels because I need to gouge most of the crappy weld out.

It's supposed to be mid 40's this weekend so I'm hoping to get this welded up so I can shoot a coat of paint on it outside

 

[liquidh8]

I hate running out of argon!

 

[64nailhead]

Did you make the bracket or buy it?

 

[81cutlass]

Did you make the bracket or buy it?

The shock bracket? I built it. It's just a 3/8 piece of scrap flat bar welded to the LCA bracket with a hole in it.

I'll grab a photo tomorrow when I finish welding it.

 

[81cutlass]

Welded the tubes to the housing, got the ends welded on and added 2 more LCA holes to the bottom for a 1.25" and 2.5" relocation. Cleaned the housing up.

Ready for primer and paint tomorrow.

 

[81cutlass]

Primed and painted!

 

[81cutlass]

Diff carrier, yoke, axles & seals and bump stops are on. Probably get the uca plate silicone and bolted on and get the brakes on tonight.

I ordered some brake line I need to bend and flare up and fix the rear brake line that's in the chassis on the car that was seized when I pulled the 7.5 then it's ready to drop in

 

[Sweet_Johnny]

Diff carrier, yoke, axles & seals and bump stops are on. Probably get the uca plate silicone and bolted on and get the brakes on tonight.

I ordered some brake line I need to bend and flare up and fix the rear brake line that's in the chassis on the car that was seized when I pulled the 7.5 then it's ready to drop inView attachment 235773

Those look like ZQ8 bump stops. Nice.

 

[81cutlass]

I installed the brakes later last week and the drivers side rotor was intermittently hitting the caliper bracket. I assumed the rotor was warped, it was, but only slightly.

Checked the axle flange and it was wobbly by about .030". Chucked it in the lathe and squared it up and it's better but still a problem. Turned the warp out of the rotor and it's better but still a problem.

I need to pull the axle out of the rear again and fixture it in the lathe differently. This axle has a slight twist to the spline as it came out of the 2+2 under some hard launches. I assumed it was just in the spline but I'm concerned the whole shaft could be banana bent and it's causing the wobble.

I did get my brake lines on the rear flared and bent and got the replacement line that goes through the frame made. The 1/4 line that snakes to the rear end twisted the end off when I pulled the rear and you need to bend 3ft of line going back to the frame by the LCA to get a straight enough piece to put in a union.

 

[81cutlass]

Pulled the driver's side axle out again tonight and checked for bend.

Turns out it's crooked as a politician.

.055" of runout in the middle. Not going to turn that into spec. I bet it would shake and take out the bearings if I were to run it. Scrap.