Bob's Garage Lincoln Premiere Build

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Hit a wall and looking for some advice. Was going to take the rear drums off. The front had an axle cap that you pry off. This doesn't appear to be a cap, diagrams make it look like it is part of the axle. The technical manual i have says it is held on by timmerman nuts which are the thin clip style that youd push on. There weren't any on the lug bolts. Other parts of it say remove the nuts not specifying the kind. There is nothing else on it that seems to be securing it. I'm guessing its just rusted stuck to the hub but I don't want to break anything trying to crank it off.

In other news, had the wheels sandblasted and i painted them. Looks pretty good they are at the tire place now getting mounted. 

The some of the old tires were from Sears and they all had the old style tire size numbers. The new tires are lower profile and should lower the car about an inch. They are whitewalls of course, I'm excited to see how they look on the wheels.

5/19/2015

Its been a busy month but she's finished!

Just kidding. Saw this one at the shop by my house. Its a Continental and I believe a 59 due to the headlights not being separated from the grill. I had to take some photos.

Another nice car there

Thanks for all the tips about the brakes. It looks like I'll have to use a torch to get them off. Luckily my friend has a nice one I can borrow. 

The weather has been crappy lately but I spent some time putting this sandblaster together which I'll get some good use out of.

I ordered a front suspension rebuild kit. I figured I'd continue taking things apart, clean up what parts I can and replace any worn bushings. Like this nasty home-made sway bar bushing

It wasn't too bad to take apart. I was afraid a lot of bolts would be hard to break but there was so much gunk caked on they came off easily.

Everything except the front A arm bolts. I was able to remove the rears easily but the fronts are stuck so I can't yet remove the arms. The head of the bolts are not far behind the front bumper so they'd wet when the car drives in the rain. Another job for the torch when I get it. A crusty mess.

Now that its warm out there will be more constant updates. Thanks for all the comments. Seeing the nice and shiney version of the car has me motivated.

6/18/2015

Got the @%*#$ rear drums off a couple weeks ago. The car is parked behind my friends glass shop so she has stuff like this I can borrow.

It is basically a roofing torch but can be used for glasswork. It worked quite well. Torched the crap out of it, hit it several times with a heavy ass hammer. Used the pry bar a bit, and it separated!

Got the other side as well and stripped all the brake parts off. 

The brake fluid has turned to dust. 

This torch was too diffuse to use on the front A-arm bolts so I tried a smaller torch with MAP gas which burns a little hotter than propane. I still couldn't get those bastards to budge. Maybe the bolt is too large and the heat is escaping too quickly. There are a couple other little bolts on the front suspension that are stuck as well. I'm thinking I'll take my angle grinder to everything this weekend and destroy all these bolts with extreme prejudice. All these little mickey mouse problems are delaying this project too much. 

So once I have all the front suspension and brake parts free from the car I'll clean them up and rebuild it with the new bushings I received and the new brake hardware. I'm also going to take a wire wheel to the exposed rails and beams underneath and paint/seal them. I need to fix the left rear stud that broke off too. 

I have the replacement master cyl and brake lines. Once that is run then the running/stopping gear should be good. 

The engine turns over, I have all the ignition replacement parts to install and a fuel pump as this one is probably toast. I'm sure I'll find more crap along the way but things are slowly progressing.