What I learned in this course that you can’t finish a full restoration in one semester. I also learned more about my limits. And how to work well with others. And how much of a pain it is to wait for parts to come and when the internet goes out when you need to work on the computer. I learned you can't just start a task without knowing how to do the task like when we did not know how to push in the bushings. We spent a lot of the class trying to figuring out how to push in the bushings. I just wanted to start and figure it out as we went. But we finally found a way of doing it.
What went well When we started taking the rear axle off of the car that went really well, draining the fluid in the differential else went well, scraping the seal, painting, pushing out the bushings, cleaning the transmission, cleaning and installing the drive shaft and greasing up the bearings and putting in the metal rings.
What did not go well: Pulling off the wheel hubs was a pain because they were stuck on and it took a couple of days to get them off. A lot of heating and then hammering and then pulling the hub. Both of the rear hubs where stuck on the car. When we got the whole rear axle on the car we had to take off all of the bolts and nuts, They were all stuck tight we had to use to whole cars of brake away to get the bolts off. Then we had to take off the rear brake and baking plates and to take out the drive shafts the drive shafts where the worst because they were stuck and took a lot of force to get them out. Next I had to take the universal joints and those where so hard to get apart because the clips were rusted into place that took the better half of a class to take apart. And finial waiting for parts that was the most difficult to do because I count ralley frustrated waiting for a part you need and then when it was just waiting somewhere to be shipped was so much of a pain because we were stalled until the parts came.
How did I overcome this changes: By asking for help and by waiting.
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