Not a whole lot to report for this weekend. I did apply some POR-Patch to some screw-sized holes in the floor pan after prepping the metal with Metal-Ready. I really didn’t want to take the time to attempt to weld these up. I will be using U-Pol Raptor bedliner on the floor anyhow, so this will be covered up.
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?!?
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.
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!
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.
Not much to report this weekend, it is too cold to do what I want to the car so I took my spare wheels in to have the tires removed to free up some space. Two of them I got rid of all-together, kept my 14×7 Cragers – doubt I will use those, but still wanted to hand on to them. Then removed the tires from the 14×7 American Racing rims and also had a bent 14×7 Rally rim repaired. Now that it has been repaired, I am thinking I will have the 14×7 Rally rims on the back and 14×6 Rally rims on the front which means I will need to find 2 14×7 trim rings, otherwise I am good to go. I think I will also keep my 14×7 American Racing rims and alternate between the 2 sets depending on what I am doing. It freed up a LOT of space in my shed! I prefer the old-school wheel wheels rather than the big rim, skinny tire look that a lot of cars have now.
I added a dust reclaimer unit to my blast cabinet so I could strip some of the smaller parts such as the shifter hump patches – the unit was larger than I had imagined:
a before shot:
It worked fairly well, but did have some issues with the gun in the blast cabinet, so ended up manually sanding some of the remaining pieces – ready for primer:
Both patches primed:
I hope to get them bonded in place this weekend!
Received some more Epoxy primer today, along with a few other items:
NOS turn signals (front and rear):
OER reproduction de-fog bezel which I have already added to the woodgrain dash bezel I recently received:
Metal sign which needs to be painted or possibly nickle-plated?
Received a couple more items yesterday:
Thinking of having this nickle-plated:
NOS Quarter panel trim:
Woodgrain dash bezel – I had one already, but the cigarette lighter hole opening needed work. This one has no issues. I also received a wiper switch for the recessed wipers.
I also had to replace a water trap in my air compressor air line that was leaking air – I plan on using the blast cabinet next weekend and needed to get that resolved ahead of time.
Finally gout around to drilling out the hole for the e-brake bracket:
Still need to file down the edges and spray with some epoxy.