{"id":87,"date":"2004-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:57:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:57:15","slug":"bel-air\/more-bits-and-some-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"More bits off and Some More On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a few hours on the car again today, so I went and bought an impact driver to try and get the back doors off. It took me about 40 minutes to get two screws out. Once that was done, I crawled underneath and sprayed all the body mount bolts with WD40. I took the bumper off then, which was a pain as it was up against the wall. I ended up having to take the overrider off to remove it. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/01\/Back_Door_and_boot_off.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"331\" alt=\"Back_Door_and_boot_off.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Once that was done, I pulled the bootlid off while it was hung on the crane. That gave me enough room to get in the boot and undo the body mounts. I undid all the other mounts and finally had the body free. Now what?. I need to work out how I&#8217;m going to lift it. I put the other disc on the spindle and packed the bearings with grease. Now that both were done, I could put the old wheels on. Seems stupid, but I got such a buzz seeing the front with wheels on. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/01\/NewDiscs.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"221\" alt=\"NewDiscs.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was getting late, so I started to tidy up a bit and decided to put the front back on its wheels. It&#8217;s been off them for best part of a year. I put the crane under to help level it, then jacked it up one side at a time and pulled the jack stands out. Then slowly lowered it down. It looks really, really low now. It should be about 3&#8243; lower than stock. Now I&#8217;m really fired up! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/01\/Front_LOW.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"224\" alt=\"Front_LOW.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a few hours on the car again today, so I went and bought an impact driver to try and get the back doors off. It took me about 40 minutes to get two screws out. Once that was done, I crawled underneath and sprayed all the body mount bolts with WD40. I took the bumper off then, which was a pain as it was up against the wall. I ended up having to take the overrider off to remove it. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/01\/Back_Door_and_boot_off.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"331\" alt=\"Back_Door_and_boot_off.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Once that was done, I pulled the bootlid off while it was hung on the crane. That gave me enough room to get in the boot and undo the body mounts. I undid all the other mounts and finally had the body free. Now what?. I need to work out how I&#8217;m going to lift it. I put the other disc on the spindle and packed the bearings with grease. Now that both were done, I could put the old wheels on. Seems stupid, but I got such a buzz seeing the front with wheels on. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/01\/NewDiscs.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"221\" alt=\"NewDiscs.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was getting late, so I started to tidy up a bit and decided to put the front back on its wheels. It&#8217;s been off them for best part of a year. I put the crane under to help level it, then jacked it up one side at a time and pulled the jack stands out. Then slowly lowered it down. It looks really, really low now. It should be about 3&#8243; lower than stock. Now I&#8217;m really fired up! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/01\/Front_LOW.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"224\" alt=\"Front_LOW.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}