front cross member, steering box, and master brake cylinder removal

over the past 2 weeks me and Ben were mostly working on removing the front cross member. there were 6 bolts that had to be removed. the bolts were not very rusted and came off pretty easily with a impact gun. they were also very easy to access due to the engine being removed along with the transmission

 After we removed the six bolts, it was loose and we were able to lower it down with a jack onto the roller carts.
The one bolt in the picture to the right (very bottom, sticking out) was the only difficult one. We used the heating torch to expand the metal and an impact gun to get the bolt out.







we then worked on removing the steering box. there were 3 bolts connected to the frame of the car and 1 bolt holding the arm to the car. that was pretty simple to remove.

then we removed the master brake cylinder. there was a pin from inside the car near the brake pedal. this was insanely hard to remove because of rust and the pin being bent a lot. it was so hard to access due to the steering wheel being in the way. Mr DS had to go into the car and remove it for us because me and Ben couldn't get the pin out. after the pin was out we were able to jiggle it enough for it to come loose and remove it from the car. it was attached to the brake line and a fuel line which we also has to move around to get it to come free. after it was removed we cut the 2 lines (fuel and brake) and labelled them.



(brake cylinder)                                                                                                           (steering box)