With the emergency brake assembly and all the clutch/brake assembly parts broken down I could now start the refinishing.  I had plenty of the "steel" colored enamel mix left and was ready to give it another try.  I had used it on the upper and lower control arms without any flattening agent in it and ended up with "Autorama" quality parts.  I left them as they were but thought this time I would try to get the right steel look.

The reason I didn't use the flattener before was because I thought the additive had gone bad in the can.  Apparently the solids in the flattener settle very quickly and require a LOT of stirring to get mixed back up.  I took the time to do this... a good 45 minutes of stirring and mixing.  Anyhoo, I mixed in to the paint and reducer the amount of flattener that I thought would give me a 25% flattened finish.  I'm sure I added too much as the finish was a good bit flatter than I was expecting.  It was acceptable and sprayed on nicely.  The parts really did look like nice new bare metal.  I was happy.

The next step was to paint the majority of the pedal arms black as original.  This meant little more than taping up the parts and spraying them with Eastwoods regular Chassis Black.  It all looked right to me after everything was dry so I had re-assembly planned for next.

One thing that had to be done before re-assembly was to repair the heavily worn pin that the big clutch spring rode against.  After a quick clean in the bead blasting cabinet, I stuck it in the vice, pulled out the welder and just filled the worn notch in with weld.  Using the cutoff wheel as a grinder I did what I could to shape the welded area to match the slight grove of the rest of the pin.  The whole process took only a few minutes and after blasting and treating with Oxysolve, the pin looked like it could give another 30 years of use.

I had take several pictures of the pedal assembly before I took it apart.  It was a good damn thing because there was no way I could have remembered how those parts went back together.  I re-greased and installed all the little tiny needle roller bearings at the clutch pivot along with re-lubing everything else.  The whole thing looks great.  Too bad no one will ever see it on the car.

I was missing only the idler and pitman arms to complete the basic front suspension.  I got those a couple of weeks ago and took a few minutes to install them.  I also painted up the disc rotor dust shields.

Just last week I had a chance to take the hood from the car back to the painter.  There were some bad spots that he insisted he repair before anyone saw the car up close.  Of course I had to remove all the air grabber stuff and latches before taking it to him.  He has moved about 2 hours south of me so it was a planned trip.  Hopefully after i get it back and back on the car I won't have to do anymore panel removing.