Andy LV Hot Rod Build # 1196

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Shoulder has finally healed up enough where I can start working on the car again, still on a 5lb weight limit on the right arm thou

All my POL parts have come in except the shifter boot.

I've been doing some prep work to get some parts powder coated.
The powder coater is worried that on the upper and lower ball joints that grease will come out of the boots when they go into the 400F oven to cure.

For sand blasting, I put the boot on the upper control arm stacked some washers on the boot and tighten the castle nut hand tight to put some pressure on the boot. Then I wrapped it up with masking tape, see picture.

Those of you that have powder coated the ball joint hardware, how did you handle the ball joints?

Thanks,

Andy