After tearing apart the rear suspension, I sent the parts out and had them shot blasted in preparation for painting. They will also remove the bushings in the upper yoke, the rear ball joint and lower control arms in preparation for installing the new parts when they arrive, hopefully on Monday.
Finally, after all the parts issues our friends over at Springfield Auto Machine LLC after getting another set of proper sized rings began assembly of the motor. 
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began by balancing the crankshaft and then checking and balancing all of the connecting rods, some were off by as much as 20 grams.
Of course, nothing will go smoothly with this part of the project either, during assembly, they find that one of the rod bearings may not be right and decide to order another one. I am impressed with the quality of the work and really appreciate their attention to detail. It will pay back in spades over the years going forward. We still do not have the rocker arm shafts, but they are on the way…
By the end of the day, the lower end was assembled with seven piston and ring sets installed, the eighth will have to wait for the bearing to arrive.
This way we can clean and inspect the underbody of the car, get it painted and touch-up the undercoating if needed before we put it all back together. All of the bushings look cracked, tired and dried out, so I will be on a mission to find replacements for the front and rear of the control arms, the upper yoke and the rear ball joint. While under there, we pulled out the rest of the exhaust system, and while it looked OK, it had a huge amount of rust inside the tubes and would probably have just plugged the mufflers when we get to startup, so the whole system will be replaced with new as we put it all back together. We are also going to need to install seat belts and might as well do it while the underbody is clear.
We also received a new fuel line but have not begun that install and still need to put in the rear lines, but that will come later. If those parts fit as well as the fronts did we are going to be in great shape
he’ll say we never talked about the rocker shafts, after all, why would I need those, I got new rocker arms, springs, guides, pushrods, lifters etc. and we could just polish up the shafts.…What do you think? Well, here we are on the 23rd and still no phone call from them. That’s it, I surrender…
Time was sort this week, engine work is progressing and the Egge Machine saga continues to irritate me, but I did find some time to pull the tail-piece and replace the rear seal. I also pulled the pan and did a visual inspection, it really looks clean as a whistle, with no debris in the filter and the fluid looked great. Put it all back together with a new gasket and that’s going to be it until we get her running and find out whether we have an issues or not. The engine block is ready to go, if the parts ever get here.……
We began the process of taking apart the rear end of the car today. Drums are off, brakes torn down and the axles are out so that we can replace the bearings and gaskets before we put it all back together again. We also pulled apart the differential and are in the process of evaluating it to determine whether we need to do anything else, my guess is at the very minimum, with it now apart we are going to replace the pinion bearing and seal. Only the axle tube itself is left in the car, but at the next opportunity we will remove it along with the springs, ball joint and other suspension parts so that we can get them cleaned and painted before we put them back.
