After moving outside of the chicken yard gate with my gravel spreading, I've been slowly spreading gravel out into the parking area that covers an area between the main driveway and the end of the house and the side driveway. I went out from the gate and covered an area next to where I parked the car trailer and worked my way towards the side driveway.
I did manage to get a large area covered that would cover parking space for two vehicles if I did have to park something there. Of course since there will be a fence line running parallel to the driveway I didn't bother wasting gravel spreading out further onto the main driveway, only to split this little driveway up with a fence running right through it. When I do put up the fence I'll fill in any bare area that still remains within the fence. Like with other areas, I'll end up having to come back over this area with more gravel as traffic causes the first layer of rock to settle in the soft ground, as it has done just outside the chicken yard gate. I had to dump extra gravel over this small area as the ground was mushy and sucked up a good amount of gravel. I did also spread more gravel around the power pole butting up against the outside of the chicken yard fence. Covering this ground will help stifle future weed growth as well as make it easier to utilize any natural weed killers or something stronger if need be, to kill the grass and any errant weeds that may pop up through the gravel. As for the Mustang, there was still work to be done with regard to gutting out the interior. As had been noted before, the floors are pretty much trashed in this car so they will need to be replaced or patched. I ended up having to remove a chunk of floor that was already sagging since I would have to put my feet over this area as I crawl through the interior while I'm pulling things out. The last thing I need to have happen is for the remainder of the floor to break free and have me fall on my ass or have my leg slide across this jagged rusty metal the wrong way and cut the hell out of my leg. The last thing I need is to have a nasty rust covered wound get super infected, so this metal had to go. Thanks power tools. The next area I targeted was the dash frame and panel assembly in the car. This is the structure that holds the gauge cluster and HVAC controls and dash pad and whatever other crap that is usually bolted up in the dash area. I found all kinds of screws in obscure spots that defied any rhyme or reason as to how they got there and how I would have to get to them in order to remove them. I ended up peeling away a lot of the already decaying pad material from the dash thinking that maybe removing this stuff would expose the screws and/or bolts that I needed to get to in order to pull the metal dash structure free from the car. After finding that I couldn't find any possible way to get the fasteners pulled out to remove the dash structure, I ended up retreating in order to do research on the removal of the dash frame in a 65 Mustang. Later on I found out that the metal structure is actually tack welded in place, not to be removed, unless one takes time to break these multiple welds for the sake of replacing a damaged or rusty dash frame. What this meant is the dash is NOT coming out under any circumstances. I wasn't about to go through the grief to pull the dash free only to have to re-do the same shit or have to figure some way to put removable fasteners in strategic spots around the framework to secure the dash frame in place.
With the dash removal a mission abort I just moved on to the HVAC box. Well HV box since this car was not equipped with factory AC. But I digress, the box still had to come out. This was a rather easy removal. One of the blend door boxes that connected to the main blower box was actually made of some type of particle board or card board or some flimsy shit that degraded over the decades to the point that I was able to just pull the whole box out. With that and the associated tubes and hoses removed I was able to turn to the bolts that held the main box in. These bolts were attached through the firewall and once these few bolts were removed I was able to remove the whole HVAC box from the inside. With the HVAC box and the other hardware removed I was able to sit back and relax since I managed to get yet another large item pulled from the car and moved to the storage on the shelves in the garage.
The next round of work to be done on the car will be the removal of the shifter along with the exhaust and everything to do with the powertrain short of actually pulling the engine and transmission free from the car. By pulling everything free I will be in a position where I will be able to immediately pull the powertrain free from the car once I do get it up to the garage. By getting the shifter, exhaust, driveshaft, and mounting bolts removed, all I have to do is bolt the carb plate to the intake and just hook the crane up to the plate and yank the whole powertrain out in one fell swoop.
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