Glass day....

Chase and one of his employees from Showtime Glass were back in action at the E-tek Shop today, finally installing the 40 Ford front glass and pulling the front and rear glass from the 68 Camaro project:

                                     First up, cutting the butyl tape from between the glass and body. 
                                                                 
                                                                   Now THAT'S a knife:

Some careful pushing....

                                                               And Viola - she's out.

                                                                Same deal, other end -

                A ton of really...lets say "unique" clips where used to hold the front glass mouldings on....

The 40 Ford is full of old-school "uniqueness". Since they couldn't make glass big enough to fill the entire hole back then, they made it in 2 pieces, and used a rubber channel divider in between. 

My 46 MErc truck has a similar arrangement and it's interesting to note how quickly one doesn't "see" the middle bar when driving.

Sweetness!

40 Ford progress!

Front Windshield prep included scraping gunk from the front glass' centre support:

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Now THAT's a BOOTY!!

The E-tek Rod Shop has enough going on that Showtime Glass has to come 2 days in a row. Today they got the windshield and hatch glass in the 1971 240Z project and tomorrow they'll be back to do the very difficult job of installing the 1940 Ford front and rear glass.

The boss (Chase, left) even showed up to lend a hand - but only one, since he had just broken an elbow in a long-boarding accident....

Tools of the glass-installers trade:

The Z gets a windscreen -

This thin aluminum trim gets inserted into the rubber seals, front and back:

On the 40 Ford, the engine was hooked to the rear end, first getting a new trans seal:

Out with the old:

In with the new:

Cleaning the yoke so the seal can best do its job:

The engine, now being connected physically to the rear wheels, needs a lot of wiring work to be hooked up completely. Sometimes I equate it with surgery - orthopaedic surgery first, brain surgery second.... ;)

 

Lastly, I bolted the rear bumper on - 

Now THAT's a BOOTY!!

ENGINE RETURNS TO 40 FORD!

With a replacement pan, a visual refresh and new shorties installed, the 5.0 EFI was re-installed into the classic 40 Ford:

 The Sanderson Shorty headers gave us some much needed clearance around the steering linkages:

Getting things into paint means re-assembly!

Paint shop rules!

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