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Pictures as promised

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On sunday, I went up to Itswills house and we were going to work on his kitchen, but first up was a quick swap of the rear shocks.  Should be simple, only two nuts and one bolt each to reundo and replace per shock.  Well the bottom bolt decided to snap so it turned into cutting the shock off and removing the control arm.  Then we went over to his neighbors house to borrow his drill press.  Drill out what was left of the single bolt in each control arm.  Then back to his house only to find that he had one bolt that would work.  Next stop late sunday was tractor supply and they only had one bolt available too.  Was hoping to use the same style bolt for both sides.  Then re assembled.  The new rear shocks are great, but an hour job turned into and all day affair.  At least Itswill was able to take monaday off, since I was off then too and we finished up the tear out of his kitchen.

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Elsa decided that she didn't want her fuel tank anymore.  So It is time to replace it since it started leaking at the clam shell front edge.  Plus I hated smelling fuel as I drove down the road.  I was able to purchase a new tank from Rockauto and I am now in the process of replacing the old tank with the new tank.  I will take a couple of photos.  The new tank looks great fresh out of the box.  Just not looking forward to the effort.

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At the beginning of February, I was driving Elsa to Swartz creek and it started to snow on the way there..  At the 75 to 69 interchange, I had slowed down to about 35-40 mph going through the curve.  Just after the last bridge, she started to fishtail on me badly.  While trying to keep her under control and lots of correction and over correction, I finally hit the guard rail on the rear passenger side corner which took out the rear hatch window and passenger rear light.  Then the car shot across the road and into the open ditch.  There was no damage that I could see to the wheel assembly, so I started her back up and drove her out of the ditch.  Dropped the daughter off to the wife and then proceeded to drive back home.  Blizzaks don't work as well when you wear them down quite a bit.

Now to find a new rear hatch glass for the car has been a challenge.  The nearest place that I could find was about 40 minutes north of Columbus OH.  So a friend joined me and we took the vert on a run down there and back to pick up the glass.  The yard was closed so the guy had arranged to leave it available for me to access it and pick it up.  On the way back, we hit some heavy rain and the vert started to fishtail again.  I managed to not dump the vert into a ditch or the cement wall, but it forced us to slow way down to keep the car straight on the highway.  So another 8 hour drive adventure in the books. 

Elsa now has the rear hatch installed and is out of the garage.  I can now begin to park the vert back in it.  Still have to get the rear light assembly attached and some more redneck body work done to her.  I should also get a piece of lexan made for the rear window.  Then I wont have to worry about breaking another rear hatch glass. 

Anyone interested in helping me form lexan to fit?

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