And so it begins...

[vt_maverick]

...can you cut the nut off of the other side? If not can you wedge something in the top to prevent it from turning? I don't know how equipped you are...

Too little sleep or too dirty a mind I don't know, but this was pretty funny to me.

Good luck with all this, should be amazingly better when you're finally through.

[Triathlete]

Looking at all that rust makes me even happier that I live in Arizone. I have bare metal on my sliders where the paint got scraped off in Moab back in May and there isn't even the slightest amount of surface rust!
I think that your job would be way easier if you took Choppers advice...a little time to remove the body would save a lot of time in the long run.

[Buffy]

Disection is almost complete. Will drop the gas tank out on Friday and sand blast on Saturday.



My new hover craft!

[Ascinder]

My new hover craft!

That looks way too familiar.

[vt_maverick]

Looks like it would tip over backwards! Oh and you should take more pictures in the daylight, then people could use your VX to photochop wheel/tire combos onto the pic.

(And yes I know there are sites that already do that.)

[Buffy]

As I was arranging the back jack stands the fronts were creaking quite a bit. The fron jack stands are rated at 3 tons ans pretty solid. The rear jack stands are as far back I I can get them. I will definitely be careful doing any pulling or tugging at this point. I will get some daylight pictures as soon as the rain moves out today or tomorrow.

[Buffy]

As requested, here is my hover craft in the daylight.



I did some more sand blasting today:

here is the rear end, this thing was rough....



Lower control arm:



Here is the rear end after I coated with Master Series Coating silver. I will cover this with the Master Series gloss black.

[Ascinder]

That is looking very nice. Your VX is going to be awesome when it's all back together. Should be like brand new