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The interior is finally gutted. The dashboard is finally out. It's on the dining room table. I'm very popular with the spouse right now. I still have to finish the cleaning and sealing of the front part of the inner floorpan but there's one thing to be said for a project of this size: if you get bored with one part, there's more than enough other tasks to keep you busy.
Ergo, the front sheetmetal is all off the car now as well. A little repackaging of the garage shelving got all the bumpers, grille, the grungy old front seat, and most of the other long stuff up out of the way, but the inner fenders and radiator support are another story. For now they sit on the side of the garage the car isn't occupying, and get lumped into the yard whenever I need to work there.
The front suspension is in pieces now. Cleaning thirty-year-old grease off these things isn't just a job, it's an adventure. Let's see here...no, I don't feel like setting up a hot tank of lye, let's try trisodium phosphate. Okay, semi-effective. Let's try oven cleaner. Better, but you still better knock off the chunky stuff first. And you very well better wear rubber gloves, eye protection, long sleeves, etc. when using the stuff.
I'm starting to have second thoughts about the MP Brakes front-disc kit. It's not by any means bad stuff, but I've concluded that I can do better. Having recently installed a Baer Claw brake conversion, comprised of big Corvette Z51 rotors and 2-piston aluminum PBR calipers on my Taurus SHO I'm now considering trying to put the same basic parts on the wagon.