You know you buy a lot of car parts on eBay when they invite you to their concierge club! Who even knew they had one?!?
Monthly Archives: May 2017
5-28-2017 – 12-bolt
Not too much to report. Did some cleaning and scuffing inside the shell and around the patching I did yesterday for the 4-speed trans hump. There were a couple of spots inside the shell I want to go over again with some more epoxy.
I also pulled out the 12-bolt to clean it for the first time since having it blasted and epoxied. Glad I did because I discovered a couple of spots I want to re-do in epoxy before paining it:
Sprayed the inside with brake cleaner
There is also another spot like this on the other side.
5-27-2017 – 4-speed shifter hump
Spent some time in the garage today. Bonding the patch and 4-speed shifter hump.
I spent as much time preparing as I did working on these. The patch took about an hour and the shifter hump about 30 minutes. Some of the rivet holes needed a drill touch-up to widen, Hopefully back at it tomorrow! The 3M bonding says you have a 90-120 minute window to work with it and about a 24 hour cure time. I will still go over it with some seam sealer on both sides although it says you don’t need to – better safe than sorry!
5-14-2017 – 4 speed shifter hump
So this past week I was at a conference in Orlando, FL. I did spend a little time in the garage yesterday with the nice weather and was hoping to get to bonding it today, but other things came up and now I hope to get to it next week. So all I got done, was stripping the areas where I will be using the 3M bonding adhesive down to bare metal and cleaning with wax & grease remover. I used a marker as a guide for where to strip to:
Hopefully this next week I can get the pieces bonded together.