All about my 1966 MC850 restoration.

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The Finished Rear End of the Car — A Couple of Comments First, I want to thank those who have taken the time to comment, and those who have subscribed. Although small in number, as I expected, it’s definitely motivating to know that others are watching. Second, I hope nobody is having trouble leaving comments or subscribing. In […]

Nice Solid Naked Heinie

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2015 by saabyurk

Completed Wheel Well Repairs from Inside — Replacing Shock Absorber Mount The right-side wheel housing was in much better shape than the left side. The shock absorber mount had rust and was best replaced. Additionally, the top, front corner of the wheel house was rusted and needed work. I first turned my attention to the shock absorber […]

Repairing Right Rear Wheel Housing

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 10, 2015 by saabyurk

Welded Wheel Housing Sections from Inside — Patching Rear Partition Panel Before welding the donor spring support and shock mounting section in place, it was necessary to replace some additional rot in the rear partition panel where the wheel housing was spot welded to the panel. The first photo shows what I cut out. I did almost […]

Repairing Left Rear Wheel Housing

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 18, 2015 by saabyurk

The first thing I’ve got to say about my temporary paint booth project is that I don’t recommend it to anyone. It will work for me but it took so much work to assemble it that it will be a semi-permanent barn space occupier. If you want good advice on […]

Paint Booth – Looking Ahead

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2014 by saabyurk

A quick word about spammers. I had trouble with robots registering to this blog for unknown reasons. I have since added Math Captcha which seems to have stopped this. However, in cleaning out the spam users, I may have nicked legit users and comments. If you got nicked, I apologize. […]

Slowly, Work Continues, and Ducklings Update

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on June 14, 2014 by saabyurk

In my last post, I said the I didn’t like the air hammer chisel method of removing undercoating. As it turns out, that opinion was arrived at due to my own incompetence, cluelessness, and lack of experience or any combination thereof. I just tried reducing the pressure to about 40 […]

More Undercoating Removal + Ducklings Rescued

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2014 by saabyurk

I’m finally spending some time on the MC850 again. My son’s stroke was disabling but could have been worse. I won’t discuss that anymore because that’s not what this blog is about, however, my work will be at a slower pace due to having less available time. I have been […]

Back at it, Undercoating Removal Tests

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on May 7, 2014 by saabyurk

The replacement trunk floor I ordered from Saabklubben in Sweden arrived last Saturday. It only took 5 days to arrive on my front doorstep after being shipped by Saabklubben. The floor looks great as you can see. Unfortunately, the day before it arrived, my son suffered a stroke from a […]

Saabklubben Floor – Need to Take a Break

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 1, 2014 by saabyurk

Things aren’t going quite to plan. Besides other tasks keeping me from the MC850, not all is well with some of the donor steel I planned on using. I decided to strip the undercoating from the donor car trunk floor to make sure it would be a solid replacement. Bad […]

Swedish Steel on Its Way

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 26, 2014 by saabyurk

This stuff is a lot harder than it looks. I watched a lot of videos, and it looks so simple, just drill some spot welds and off comes the panel. Yeah, right. Never mind that it’s tough to find the exact center of the weld so you get a clean […]

Some Major Surgery

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2014 by saabyurk