Chevelle Update

"MM54" (mm54mk2) 05/25/2019 at 21:20 • Filed to: '71Chevelle

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Made some progress the past couple days. For one, the new fuel line is installed. I don’t really have pictures of this because it’s way up under the car and hard to see, let alone photograph. Trust me.

In the front where it emerges out of the crossmember, I did add a clamp. In the factory setup the steel line ends about flush with the edge of the frame, and is pretty well free floating. The rubber hose is slid down over this and clamped, and keeps it from rubbing through. I plan on putting a -6 AN line on the end, which means the hard line would rub through on the frame from vibration in no time. An appropriate size p-clip, drill, tap, and 1/4-20 bolt fixes that and keeps the line supported in the center of the opening for maximum longevity.

In more visually-exciting news, this evening I installed the passenger’s side fender and inner fender! This isn’t permanent but will allow me to repair the missing chunk (thanks, rust) on the bottom of the fender. Once that’s more or less in place, it will come back off for other final work and I’ll do the same on the other side.

Conveniently I do have patch panels for this part of the fender, so it might not be too awful to get patched up. The only other repair the fenders need is one or two of the tabs which hold the inner fender in place which have rusted pretty b adly on both sides . After that it’ll be the same sort of strip/clean/paint as other parts, but the fenders will get proper primer/paint.

TheRealBicycleBuck > MM54 05/25/2019 at 22:36

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Nice work!

Future Heap Owner > MM54 05/25/2019 at 22:36

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Fuel lines seem like a real pain. Well done.

MM54 > TheRealBicycleBuck 05/25/2019 at 23:11

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Thanks!

MM54 > Future Heap Owner 05/25/2019 at 23:13

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Thanks, it was a pain - mainly the complicated bit in the back which goes up and over the rear crossmember and a round the shock mount and over the spring perch and around the body mount and...

Future Heap Owner > MM54 05/26/2019 at 00:55

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Old-Busted-Hotness > MM54 05/26/2019 at 05:49

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Glad you took the time to do it pretty. It’s little things like that that separate the “good enough” builds from the really nice ones.

shop-teacher > MM54 05/26/2019 at 07:18

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It never ceases to amaze me how many people will just bondo  over big ass holes, and call it a day.

MM54 > Old-Busted-Hotness 05/26/2019 at 08:32

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Thank you!

MM54 > shop-teacher 05/26/2019 at 08:36

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Yeah, when this car was repainted in the late 90s-ish(?) they didn’t do a great job. Spots like this and behind the rear wheels have made themselves known, but it sort of concerns me about if there is anywhere else on the car that I should know about that they bondo’ed over and it hasn’t failed yet.