[buckroseau]

Not a full day on the lv today, wanted to but got roped into some stuff I had to help the wife out with

I did do some work on those parts I want to get into paint. Before I blocked out the rear panels again to 220 I cut the holes for the rear speakers. The speakers came with a template so I used that. Also incoporated a hole that was in the rear panel into the speaker hole, which was the plan. Got those holes cut out and then blocked out the panels to 220. Hung everything back up and shot a couple coats of epoxy primer over all of them.

I shot a couple coats of beige base on those little triangle running boards first.....then moved onto the white for all the other parts. Everything was going good, but I started having some reaction problems with a few of the parts So, had to stop, have to wait a few days down, wet sand out and try shooting the base again. I guess the joys of painting sometimes???

My co-worker that was in Fargo yesterday did pick me up some of those stock clips that Junky had posted I'll post some pics tomorrow, but I did manage to clip one of the doors panels to the door....worked great! Since I won't be bolting any of my parts on tomorrow I probably will start making door panels....see how it goes, in between keeping the wife busy.

Few pics of the first half of the days project......

Matt

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[AATLAS1X]

I wonder if thats a rental?

Lookin Sweet!

[swilson]

I did a search for something totally unrelated and this thread popped up in the search results. 90 pages? I had to know what you could talk about for 90 pages. That was hours ago... and I mostly looked at pictures and skimmed some areas I had particular interest in.

Wow... thanks for putting all this on the net. And like everyone told you before me... you do great work. I'm sure you're proud of it.

[krzyabncanuck]

Look at all the play toys in the yard. Looks like you keep it looking really nice also. I see you take pride in everything that you own / have.

[merbesfield]

Matt, is that a Polaris 30? We have one of those along with a couple of bigger New Hollands. that little Polaris is really handy as a wheelbarrow. I think i found the exact clips you are looking for at one of the Oldsmobile 442 parts suppliers i use. They even sell the rubber female groummets. check it out and let me know what you think if they are the same. Go to www.Fusick.com and download their pdf catalog, look on page 64. Verbage is below, but they look the same.

Door Trim Panel Tab: Metal tab clips
on edge of door panel for 1964-72 all
Models.
12134 Trim Panel Tabs 7.50 pkg of 25

Trim Panel Fastener Grommet: Fits
1964-72 Models using 12134 Metal
Door Panel Trim Tab. This is the part
that fits in the door. Sold in a set of 25.
TPG647 Trim Panel Grommet 7.50 set

[buckroseau]

Pretty good day on the lv today, few honey do's that interupted the creative process, but overall good.

Got up this morning and started sewing...since I've got to wait a few days for that paint to sit. Fired up the Martha Stewart factory again Going solo on all this stuff, no help from anyone any more. I used 1/4" sew foam for the back of the door panels. Had to make the pleat's first and then cut the upper piece and did a double stitch across the horizontal seam on that.

I laid the backer board on the back side and traced it with a wax pencil. Then just outside the line I cut the sew foam back off, glue needs to stick to vinyl fabric, not foam. Then cut about an 1 1/4" beyond the wax pencil line, this was for the the edge to fold over.

After I was all done with this I brought everything outside since it was a nice day. I sprayed a little 3M super 77 on the back side of the upper foam piece real quick just to hold it in place. I used weldwood contact cement to glue the vinyl to the backer board. Went pretty good, I used an iron to kinda mold the corners and edges into the corners and melt everything together. It sorta looks like ass from the back side, but it is nailed down for good and isn't going anywhere! Cut out all the holes for the clips, window and door handles and installed one just for fun..........Overall, extremely happy with how they turned out. I'm getting a lot faster at sewing and had about an hour and a half into sewing....what took the most time was all the glueing and cutting. For the most part it was a 5 hour job from start to finish.

Not going to install them yet....I have an appointment with the local auto glass guy Tuesday morning and were going to try to get my door glass doing it's thing a little better. Would like to wet sand those other parts Tuesday or Wed. and get them into paint....try to get them bolted on before Friday.

Matt

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Originally Posted by merbesfield

Matt, is that a Polaris 30? We have one of those along with a couple of bigger New Hollands. that little Polaris is really handy as a wheelbarrow. I think i found the exact clips you are looking for at one of the Oldsmobile 442 parts suppliers i use. They even sell the rubber female groummets. check it out and let me know what you think if they are the same. Go to www.Fusick.com and download their pdf catalog, look on page 64. Verbage is below, but they look the same.

Door Trim Panel Tab: Metal tab clips
on edge of door panel for 1964-72 all
Models.
12134 Trim Panel Tabs 7.50 pkg of 25

Trim Panel Fastener Grommet: Fits
1964-72 Models using 12134 Metal
Door Panel Trim Tab. This is the part
that fits in the door. Sold in a set of 25.
TPG647 Trim Panel Grommet 7.50 set

The 6x6 in the yard is an older Polaris atv....the tracked skid steer is a new holland 185/80 hp. Way to big for what I was doing, but our smaller case 70xt's were rented out and this is all that was left on the lot. Awesome machine for bigger jobs and bigger areas, but tough to manuver around in some of the areas I was working in. Pic makes it looks small for some reason? Only 8 hours on that rig

Got some fasteners for my door panels, thanks for looking though

And let me know if you need me to take that lwb that you just got off your hands, gonna be needing another project here soon

Thanks, Matt

[buckroseau]

Originally Posted by krzyabncanuck

Look at all the play toys in the yard. Looks like you keep it looking really nice also. I see you take pride in everything that you own / have.

Wife cracks the whip on the house and the yard stuff.....I'm just labor and there for the heavy lifting

Matt

[merbesfield]

Originally Posted by buckroseau

The 6x6 in the yard is an older Polaris atv....the tracked skid steer is a new holland 185/80 hp. Way to big for what I was doing, but our smaller case 70xt's were rented out and this is all that was left on the lot. Awesome machine for bigger jobs and bigger areas, but tough to manuver around in some of the areas I was working in. Pic makes it looks small for some reason? Only 8 hours on that rig

Got some fasteners for my door panels, thanks for looking though

And let me know if you need me to take that lwb that you just got off your hands, gonna be needing another project here soon

Thanks, Matt

seeing that you used the wire clips vs. the flat metal ones i have seen, can you feel the wire through the material vs. if they were flat you would not? just wondering. they look great. have you thought of using steam to help get the material to pull? i have seen that used and i have a steam unit that i use to clean with and can tell it would make a dif. when trying to get material to conform.

[buckroseau]

Originally Posted by merbesfield

seeing that you used the wire clips vs. the flat metal ones i have seen, can you feel the wire through the material vs. if they were flat you would not? just wondering. they look great. have you thought of using steam to help get the material to pull? i have seen that used and i have a steam unit that i use to clean with and can tell it would make a dif. when trying to get material to conform.

The wire ones worked perfect, no you can't feel them.

I have used a heat gun before on vinyl to shrink it down. My panels are actually pretty nice right now.....a lot of time a day or 2 out in the sun shrinks things up just right also. For now it's just right.

Thanks, Matt

[Mikesta]

Your rig is beautiful Matt. Seeing the panels on the door was amazing... you've done some quality work on this piece. Thanks for the motivation... and frustration...

[TEQ]

I would have been disappointed if the Woodweld can wasn't dented.

[buckroseau]

Had an appointment with the autoglass guy this morning and he kinda blew me off. Had some other stuff in the shop and said he just didn't have time to help me today. He did however give me a few pointers on how to get my glass going up and down a bit better....so I went home and did it myself this morning

Actually didn't take that long and I think with time they will get a lot better since the channel is so tight, but overall going up and down pretty good now.

I got home late from work tonight, but did get a care package from Shane.......... I also like the shipping label

Tailights might be going in tomorrow, or at least start going in. My gaskets are shot so they need a lot of gluing back together just to get them to work. Those taillamp buckets are sweet!!!

Thanks Shane

Matt

[treerootCO]

Your 45lv is now an ih8mud legend... hint hint

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[MDH33]

Looks great! So cool to see it drivable. I hope you got an insurance policy for at least 250,000 thousand for it!

[buckroseau]

Not a lot done on the lv tonight.....been struggling getting home from work early this week. Managed to get maybe 2 hours this evening.

I wet sanded out those cargo panels I had paint reaction problems last Saturday with. Got them hung back up, going to go to the paint store tomorrow and see if they have some white epoxy primer on the shelf. If yes, I might spray a coat of that before I shoot base again. Hoping to get them into clear tomorrow night if everything goes right?

Worked on my taillamp gaskets a bit, god they suck.... I used some
3M weatherstripping adhesive and glued the pieces back together. I guess I got them back together and semi-acceptable, but they still suck. Good as it gets for now.....I am seriously thinking of trying to carve some out of rubber myself..I think I could do it?

Glued the lense gaskets back in the buckets with the 3M adhesive, also installed the bulb assemblies.

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[cruiser ken]

I think you would be better off using flat rubber and cutting the shape out then finding some small square (or rectangular) rubber strips and glueing that to the flat piece with the 3M black weatherstrip adhesive. Making them from a solid chunk of rubber would be tough.

[buckroseau]

Not a lot a pics and doesn't look like much, but worked for almost 4 hours this eveining on the lv.

I got some white DP epoxy primer today and when i got home I shot a couple coats on my parts. After I did that I moved onto my taillights to give it some time to dry. I had to drill a couple holes underneath in the body a 1/2" for rubber

[buckroseau]

Not a lot a pics and doesn't look like much, but worked for almost 4 hours this eveining on the lv.

I got some white DP epoxy primer today and when i got home I shot a couple coats on my parts. After I did that I moved onto my taillights to give it some time to dry. I had to drill a couple holes underneath in the body a 1/2" for rubber grommets and the taillight wires to run up. Got that done and the wires in, hooked up everything.....I have turn signals, but not brake or taillights I had it when we wired it....not sure, worked on it for a bit, but finally gave up and went back out in the booth.

Shot a couple coats of white base and then cleared....turned out pretty nice. Hopefully if everything is dry tomorow evening I can bolt some of it in.

Matt

[buckroseau]

Originally Posted by fakejeepsrule!

chad does nice work, I hope you paid him for all his weekends and evenings or at least mentioned him as more than the "mechanic buddy"

You must have not read my post......taillights don't work


Now I have to go bother him tomorrow


Matt

[AATLAS1X]

Check your ground at the housing or just run a jumper wire..........yes, no maybe??

PS, listed my FJ40 on ebay....take a look...........not the quality of the LV design group.

[buckroseau]

About 4.5 hours this evening on the lv. Kinda was trying to hustle a bit this evening, that car show is tomorrow. Of course it won't be totally done, but trying to get as much done as possible.

Got all my rear panels in along with the speakers. I didn't take any pics of the actual installation because I was kinda in a hurry. Before I installed the panels I used the die grinder and made a 3/8" hole in each area behind the panel then installed a 1/4" rubber grommet. Then on each side right next to the floor directly below the speaker I made another 3/8" hole with a 1/4" rubber grommet. I used a thin steel wire and snaked it through that area and then pulled the speaker wire through. This way it goes into the area between the inner and outer panel and comes back into the cab right next to the floor and runs underneath the carpet up to the front.....can't see any of the wire. Even hooked it up and had the stereo working, that was good.

Installed the little running boards on each side.......also got my taillights and brake lights working.......Bad ground last night of course. Before I put them back in this evening I ground the paint off the inside so the ground jumper wire would have a solid contact...worked perfect. All legal now

Had the wife cleaning out my 40. The 40 is a driver, but still looks pretty good I think. Want to make sure the kids know theres more out there than the standard Detroit junk

Matt