his was a pretty good day for the Pinto Suspension. Well, it started out good but it was a lot of work to get the parts on. I also have a sway bar and new end links and new bushings, I can't find those pictures yet.

In between cursing the day pintos were made, I hooked up an auto fuel line cleaner. I looped them and filled them with solvent. I had a large glass jar as a reservoir, another missing picture.

Nice new rubbers for the springs. New Pinto leaf springs as well.

They did look like they were worn out but the difference in stiffness was amazing. It was more like I remembered it to be.

This is the original as it came off the car

After a small amount of work blasting, rust converter and paint.

 

76 Ford Pinto Floor Repair. Fiberglass POR-15 Welding and Rust Treatment - Repair

 I got this Pinto in Mid June 2011. I had it running and yard driving in just a week or so. The first thing I did was gut the inside. I removed everything I could without making it undrivable. I had just a small amount of floor rust to repair. I put the driver's seat in so I could move the car.

The rear passenger side under the back seat had some small holes just about 1/4 inch. At that time I had just learned about POR-15. I got a couple cans.

As you can see the passenger floor was in perfect shape. I scrubbed it clean and removed any surface rust.

The entire floor ended up coated in POR-15 after I used Rust mort

Some of the floor looked perfect.

This looked a lot worse than it really was. I wire-brushed most of this rust off and treated it. No holes.

Those 1/4-inch holes got a bit bigger. I had to get creative on this repair.

This is behind the driver's seat, right-hand rear hole. I was going to just weld in a bit of sheet metal but there seemed to be flexing some so I added some angle iron for support.