The Frame Rebuild Begins (1500 Project – 21)

While the body is at the paint and body shop, the frame will be reassembled and made into a roller so we can put the freshly repainted body onto the powder coated frame for the reassembly.

I have been digging out all the parts that I have been squirreling away for this project (and in some cases trying to figure out where some of the parts went! ) and came across these beauties:

This is a pair of NOS upper ball joints that were sourced directly out of Japan. Amazing as it might seem, but they have never been used – the rubber boots have disintegrated into some sort of super sticky rubber/tar/indelible ink substance that is VERY difficult to remove from your skin!

A close up:

I will get them cleaned up with new paint, boots and grease, and we should be good to go. I had heard about rotten boots on ball joints before, so I thought the images would be worth sharing!