Getting all the fasteners together has turned out to be a major undertaking. I guess I've made it worse than it could have been, mostly because I'm trying to gather and document as many original fasteners as possible. I have all the parts from the K convertible plus 2 complete coupes built within 2 weeks at the same assembly plant. The part that has been time-consuming is that I'm having to disassemble components and document everything as it comes apart. I'm keeping a book with bolt sizes, markings and where they were. I've found that there were very few bolt markings on San Jose cars that were the same as Metuchen/Dearborn. Other than the common 'HTS' body bolts, most everything else has a different head marking. The effort in getting all these original fasteners re-plated will make for a much more authentic restoration.
Few pics taken today. Got the original front suspension out from the K convertible, was pleased to find original date coded front drums, one was 4L20, the other 4L10. Have original date coded rears also. Found all original hardware and wheel cylinders on each side. Snapped a couple pics:
The front brake backing plates were in decent condition, found a double line mark near the adjuster hole on one of them. Have seen this before, so it is typical for at least San Jose cars. Original wheel cylinders had paint daubs, but could not make them out.
Cleaned the front spindles and strut rods. Will take pics of the spindles, they had typical paint markings. Strut rods had the normal yellow daub. The LH side steering stop had the typical red paint daub. I cleaned the one off the V8 coupe, same mark.
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