In this installment I started off the day with another round of gravel. As usual I made my run to the cement facility and came back with the load of rock and commenced to spreading it out. I only had a little bit of area left to cover in the chicken yard and this load was more than enough to cover that area with plenty left over.
After taking care of the chicken yard I wanted to spread gravel at the main gate to the chicken yard where the ground was mushy, partly because of my traversing over it with 200 lb wheelbarrow loads of gravel and because rains made the ground mushy to begin with. So with that once I got the remaining area of the chicken yard covered I took my victory in completing the task of covering the chicken yard with gravel where I wanted, time to move on. With the laying of the gravel outside the chicken yard gate I did have to walk over the rock to mash it into the mud and add more on top of it until I got to a point that the rock was holding the mud together enough that I could walk over it without the mud pushing out under my feet and taking the gravel with it, leaving mud holes within the gravel floor. After getting this bad area taken care of I started dumping more gravel on the grounds surrounding the truck. These grounds extend straight out from the chicken yard gate and the power pole to the house. This area is where the truck and trailers typically end up depending on what I have going on at any given time. Because of this type of traffic it was imperative to start laying gravel here as well. Even though I will put up fencing that will effectively enclose this section of the yard to where the only way into this area is from the main driveway, it'll still be important to have gravel down so there won't be any issues with the moving of vehicles or equipment due to mud. With my exercise done for the day I turned my attention back to the 65 Mustang and its continued disassembly. At this point I'm cutting through the interior like a wildfire, pulling out anything and everything that's screwed down. I had the rear seat and center console to pull out for this round on the car. Luckily the rear seat in these cars is only held down by a couple of bolts with the base part being snapped in. Popping out the base took no time at all. Now since there was a certain level of rust throughout the car that would scare just about anybody who's trying to play with a resto project, it was of no surprise that when I went to remove the few bolts holding the top portion of the back seat down that a couple were no longer secured to anything. Their mounting points were rusted away so I was able to just pull the seat assembly up and out, leaving only a couple bolts to actually remove. Another thing that I went ahead and took care of was removing the center console. This unit was actually only held in with a few sheet metal screws on either side. The impact driver made fast work of these screws. With the disconnecting of the wires going to the interior lights in the console and removing the shifter grip, I was quickly able to remove the center console, no problem. One more panel that had to be pulled that went along with the rear seat was an intermediate panel that goes between the actual seat assembly and the rear speaker panel. This panel is just there so when the rear seat is laid down, there will be a smooth flush floor from the front seats all the way to the speaker panel. This panel was only in with a few bolts so its removal went fast as did the others. With these large components removed from the interior that leaves the carpet open for removal. Of course there will be no salvaging of this as its been stained with rat shit and years of moisture and rust rot. Carpets are too affordable for me to even give this old piece a second thought. This carpet will be cut out in pieces and stuffed into large feed sacks destined for the burn pile. Outside of the two seat belt assemblies, the carpet is cleared for removal. These seatbelt assemblies are held in with just one large bolt each, these should come out pretty fast and easy. If for some reason they don't, the die grinder will make quick work of them. With that, the carpet will be gone once and for all! Of course removing the carpet will expose the shitty rotted floor that lies underneath. I'm not going to mess with it as I will need to be able to put the car body along side the truck frame so I can start looking everything over to see just where I might need to weld supports or see what I can cut out and how I would replace those panels and parts that are rusted out. One thing that I want to be able to do is not have to add so much extra metal where it may not be needed. I will try to do other things to the body and the areas underneath or behind the exterior panels to make things watertight, soundproofed and just clean. Never should I have to go through extra crap just to remove a panel, especially to access certain parts or spots under the car. Things on this car will be 100% different when the project is done.
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