Rear Disc Brakes

I spent today removing cleaning and installing the new rear disc brakes. Everything went on pretty smooth. These tires and rims are pretty large, 18x8 low profile. I've run 17x7's before without and mods anywhere but these I wasn't sure about and from what most people said they won't work on a bug. These came off a bug from Florida so I know they'll work but wasn't sure of the mods that might have to be done. From what I can tell from measuring outside tire to outside the tires should still fit with-in the fenders. The only problem I did see is the inside of the tires are to close to where the rubber stop hits the top near the rear shock. So I'll have to do some checking to see if I need to use that rubber stopper or if I can trim the tops off at the shock tower.

Floor Time

It was time for a change, off the body for awhile and onto the floor. First I had to pull the trans so I could change the bowden tube which was all cracked. Cleaned the floor up and sprayed it with a coat of Rust Encapsulator to keep the rust at bay.
Tomorrow I'll try and get to the rear disc brakes.

Rear Quarters

A whole weekend in the garage and it doesn't seem like I got much done. I started with cleaning up the area inside behind the quarter glass.
After this I started working on the rear apron. I needed to clean the edges up and weld some stonger edges because I want to be able to remove this anytime I need to do any engine work.
Removed all the paint from the dash, under the dash plus the deck lid itself.
Filled in the holes under the rear seat area as we won't be running any heat in this car.

Back at it

Well it's been a long winter and the cars been put on hold, till this week.
First was the rear deck lid, I needed to put relief cuts along each side of the lid so it would shut right.
Next I had to weld on the row of clips that run along the door pillars due to someone cutting them off at some point.
After that it was off to the inside to finish the rest of the grinding.