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The last couple weeks I've been cleaning up parts by washing and sandblasting them. There were still a couple bolts that I had to heat to remove and repair them. The door mirrors were held on by sheet metal screws, which I don't like, so I drilled the holes out and will install sheet metal nuts (rivets w/threads) after the doors are painted. The idler pulley' bearings sounded dry; I was going to replace them but they appeared to be made as a unit - being non-serviceable. So I drilled a small hole in the front plug (I removed the plugs first and then re-installed them), tapped the hole so I could install grease fittings in them, and used a grease gun to repack the bearings - they don't sound dry now.
Someone had sprayed the engine compartment with black paint and that crap wouldn't hardly come off by sandblasting so I used a razor blade scraper and scraped most of it off first - that made the blasting go much quicker. There is a lot of time spent on a project like this - doing a lot of little things - that the average person can't see where time was spent but, it's all the little things that make the difference between a half-assed job and a good job.
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