View Single Post
Old 07-12-2021, 08:49 PM   #606
SkinnyG
Registered User
 
SkinnyG's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Beautiful BC, Canada, eh?!
Posts: 2,173
Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache

I kinda had a hunch that was so. Still, can't hurt, eh?

One more bed brace to blast, and I think I'll be doing the final light blasting of the bed for primer.





In between the previous sandblasting episodes (waiting for the air compressor to cool, for example), I started placing the Air Ride components.

While I initially planned to tuck an air tank or two inside bulbous rear fenders, I ended up placing the kit's air tank on the left side leg of the "X". This frame makes it tricky to place a tank, though it is easier with the bed floor raised. You need to take into account room for the driveshaft, room to plumb the lines, tank servicability, access to tank drain, operation of rear sway bar, serviceability of differential, etc..... The compressor will likely go right where I have it in the picture. I'll be running single exhaust down the passenger side, so no room over there.

__________________
1961 Apache: "Grabber Orange" Shortboxed, pancake, step-notch, air-ride, boosted-LS
1977 Silverado: Shortboxed & dropped, potato-potato
V8 Pontiac Firefly (Chevy Sprint): The ultimate engine swap: 5.7L in a 1.0L bag
Lotus Super 7 Replica: Scratch-built street-legal rollerskate
SkinnyG is online now   Reply With Quote