After getting everything mocked up, we moved to the back of the shop and tacked the brackets to the housing and disassembled it to get it ready to be powder coated. All we have left before it goes out is to have my dad tig weld the brackets on (since I would rather wait for him to have a minute so we have very clean looking strong welds). And build the brackets to hold the brake hoses for the caliper.
I did all the stuff to the housing last weekend. Yesterday I was hoping to get everything painted, and build the brackets to hold the brake hoses on, but did not quite get that far. I did get everything media blasted and painted, which took way longer then I hoped. I went to use my dad's media blasting cabinet but decided it was time to fix a few things on it, as it is almost as old as I am. I replaced the glass on it since it was super etched from the 500+ pounds of glass beads that have been shot in that cabinet (you only had one small corner you could see out of). And while I was at it, I decided it needed a lighting update. The light that came on the cabinet had died years ago, so my dad put in a drop light. Which worked, but you only had light on one side. So i bought a 24 inch LED light from Lowes and put it in. About $40 in supplies, that made a new cabinet out of it!! Worth the time, but slowed down the progress on the truck.
This picture is just for fun. We had a full shop. Had my brother working on his blazer doing the rust repair on the windshield frame. My dad is working on modifying the wheel openings on his blazer to fit the bigger tires he got. And my axle to wrap it all up
