Rehab Recap | restoration of a 1958 Cadillac Extended Deck Sedan
Oct
07

Rehab Recap

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As we get ready to take our lit­tle break, I thought it would be cool to try and item­ize the items we have accom­plished in the last four months, so here goes.  These are all of the items we man­aged to com­plete and install to this point.

Brake Sys­tem

  1. Four new wheel cylinders
  2. All new Stain­less Steel brake lines
  3. All four drums turned & painted
  4. New shoes, springs & hard­ware on all wheels
  5. Rebuilt mas­ter cylin­der & booster (Bendix)

Body

  1. Frame cleaned and painted with POR-15
  2. Under­coat­ing touched-up & re-done
  3. Rear bumper ends repaired & re-plated
  4. Rear bumper bar re-plated
  5. Com­plete inte­rior cleaning
  6. Fire­wall evap­o­ra­tors repaired & painted
  7. Wire har­ness, cleaned, checked & secured

Exhaust

  1. New heat con­trol diverter
  2. All new pipes
  3. New muf­flers
  4. New res­onators

Fuel Sys­tem

  1. Gas tank boiled out, tested, repainted & installed
  2. New stain­less steel fuel line
  3. New fuel pump
  4. New fuel filter

Mechan­i­cals

  1. Com­plete engine rebuild
  2. New radi­a­tor
  3. Rear Seal (Transmission)
  4. Trans­mis­sion fil­ter cleaned & re-installed
  5. New engine mounts
  6. New Trans­mis­sion mount
  7. New water pump
  8. New uni­ver­sal joints (Driveshaft)
  9. Rear axle cleaned & painted
  10. New dif­fer­en­tial gasket
  11. New axle seals
  12. Heater core boiled out, tested & painted
  13. Heater fan cleaned, tested & painted

Sus­pen­sion (Front)

  1. New wheel bear­ings & seals
  2. New upper con­trol arm shafts, bush­ings & seals
  3. New lower con­trol arm shafts, bush­ings & seals
  4. New shocks
  5. New spring insulators
  6. New idler arm
  7. Drag link (cen­ter) com­pletely rebuilt w/new parts
  8. New sway bar links
  9. New rub­ber stops
  10. New upper & lower ball joints
  11. New tie rod ends

Sus­pen­sion (Rear)

  1. New bear­ings & seals
  2. New lower con­trol arm bush­ings (front & rear)
  3. New upper yoke bushings
  4. New rear ball joint
  5. New spring insulators
  6. New shocks
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Comments

  1. Caddysurfer says:

    Impres­sive work. Will soon start my small win­ter over­haul work of my 58 convertible.

    Best regards from Sweden

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