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I'm sure I will be buying new ones.
Matt
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I'm sure I will be buying new ones.
Matt
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foxfab said:
I have used aluminum, although I didn't on the hood. Holes weren't that big and I took my time so it didn't heat up and warp it.
But Charles is right, any disimilar metal would work.
Matt
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Things went as planned today. Everything was sanded down to 180 and then 2 light coats of ureathane primer and 1 light coat of epoxy primer.
I think the pics say it all, few pics of my buddy laying down some primer. Plan is to head back up there tomorrow morning and start re-assembling everthing for the trip home.
That should be fun to see, pefectly straight lv.
Then let the fun begin at home again!!
Matt
I think the pics say it all, few pics of my buddy laying down some primer. Plan is to head back up there tomorrow morning and start re-assembling everthing for the trip home.
That should be fun to see, pefectly straight lv.
Then let the fun begin at home again!!Matt
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I'll trade ya.
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Mikesta said:
mmmmmm.............No thanks
a good friend always said it doesn't hurt to ask. I'm used to No's. Your rig is looking sweet Matt... thanks for continuing to provide step by step for the amatures out there like me! -------Who needs Sex when you have Matt's thread... sometimes you get it sometimes you dont. Keep em coming!
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Looking real sharp.
I use to hand parts like you are doing for primer.
Later I would lay them flat spray one side then the next day i would do the other side. I found it difficult to spray some items hanging as it would swing with the spray from the gun.
Rob
I use to hand parts like you are doing for primer.
Later I would lay them flat spray one side then the next day i would do the other side. I found it difficult to spray some items hanging as it would swing with the spray from the gun.
Rob
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Almost a full day at my buddy's place. We spent the day bolting parts back on. Took our time and wanted to make sure all the doors fit and closed real nice.
The only experience I have had with stock doors was the one at TLC when I was out in california a few months ago. On that one I was able to open the passenger side door and close it. Worked pretty good, not great, but ok. I realize that's what they had back then. But the doors I have with those custom Bear jaw latches, I think they close better than my pick up? Just lightly swing them and they close like a new car, I love them.
Anyway, few pics of the rig loaded up around 3pm this afternoon. I hauled it home, it's now sitting in my paint booth. I was going to try to work on it a bit tonight, but I want to put it in my garage shop and it's a mess. So, the plan for tonight is head back out to the shop and do some major cleaning. Hoping to get it rolled into my shop tomorrow night.
Matt
The only experience I have had with stock doors was the one at TLC when I was out in california a few months ago. On that one I was able to open the passenger side door and close it. Worked pretty good, not great, but ok. I realize that's what they had back then. But the doors I have with those custom Bear jaw latches, I think they close better than my pick up? Just lightly swing them and they close like a new car, I love them.
Anyway, few pics of the rig loaded up around 3pm this afternoon. I hauled it home, it's now sitting in my paint booth. I was going to try to work on it a bit tonight, but I want to put it in my garage shop and it's a mess. So, the plan for tonight is head back out to the shop and do some major cleaning. Hoping to get it rolled into my shop tomorrow night.
Matt
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Radd Cruisers said:
Thanks on the compliment Rob.
I guess you answered why I hang sometimes, "one side then the next day I would do the other side".
Only so many days and I need to get done, so sometimes they get hung
Matt
WOW again!! thanks so much for such great documentation!!
thanks so much for such great documentation!!
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Well got the lv into the shop tonight and was trying to get some @$!% done tonight. Figured I would start with the front seats.
I got the wife out there tonight and her and I spent some time figuring out where the seats should be located. If you remember a few pages back my sketch of the seat frame I was going to make for the bucket seats. I had those tubes bent up by a guy I know a week or so ago, I think you can see them in the pics. I figured out the height and tomorrow I need to round up some 2.5" x 2.5" square stock. Also need some 3/4" square stock to sleeve those tubes I bent up and make them one, shouldn't be a problem.
Since I didn't have all the material tonight to finish my seat frame I started bolting other parts on that have been laying around the shop taking up space. Keep in mind, all these parts are being bolted up over then next few weeks prior to re-finishing them just for test fitting. After almost everything is bolted on and roughed in and the body comes back off, the parts will be taken off and then re-worked. I don't want anyone to think that some of those dirty unpainted parts are there to stay.
Bolted in the speedo head out of the 79, that took about 2 seconds. Layed the tranny hump in. I'm going to need to cut off the last 10" and then fab up the 2nd part of a 2 piece tranny hump.
Dug out the aluminum radiator I got from Man-a-fre when I was in California a few months ago, that thing is SWEET!! Bolted on the bracket off the 79 for the coolant and windshield wiper fluid. Un-bolted the tranny pan, let that drip all night. Tomorrow I am going to cut and relief it a bit to make more room for that front drive shaft.
Few pics of the light switch and wiper switch out of the 79.
Anyway, more to come.
Matt
I got the wife out there tonight and her and I spent some time figuring out where the seats should be located. If you remember a few pages back my sketch of the seat frame I was going to make for the bucket seats. I had those tubes bent up by a guy I know a week or so ago, I think you can see them in the pics. I figured out the height and tomorrow I need to round up some 2.5" x 2.5" square stock. Also need some 3/4" square stock to sleeve those tubes I bent up and make them one, shouldn't be a problem.
Since I didn't have all the material tonight to finish my seat frame I started bolting other parts on that have been laying around the shop taking up space. Keep in mind, all these parts are being bolted up over then next few weeks prior to re-finishing them just for test fitting. After almost everything is bolted on and roughed in and the body comes back off, the parts will be taken off and then re-worked. I don't want anyone to think that some of those dirty unpainted parts are there to stay.
Bolted in the speedo head out of the 79, that took about 2 seconds. Layed the tranny hump in. I'm going to need to cut off the last 10" and then fab up the 2nd part of a 2 piece tranny hump.
Dug out the aluminum radiator I got from Man-a-fre when I was in California a few months ago, that thing is SWEET!! Bolted on the bracket off the 79 for the coolant and windshield wiper fluid. Un-bolted the tranny pan, let that drip all night. Tomorrow I am going to cut and relief it a bit to make more room for that front drive shaft.
Few pics of the light switch and wiper switch out of the 79.
Anyway, more to come.
Matt
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Quick question.
I have seen the battery tray mounts that go on top of the shock tower, I think Man-a-fre sells them. Anyway, what is the consensus for doing this on the driver side???
That coolant/winshield wiper fluid bracket kinda ruined that plan on the passenger side. I don't see why it wouldn't work? Saginaw power steering shaft still needs to be installed, but I think it would clear it?
Just thought someone might have some insight here?
Thanks, Matt
I have seen the battery tray mounts that go on top of the shock tower, I think Man-a-fre sells them. Anyway, what is the consensus for doing this on the driver side???
That coolant/winshield wiper fluid bracket kinda ruined that plan on the passenger side. I don't see why it wouldn't work? Saginaw power steering shaft still needs to be installed, but I think it would clear it?
Just thought someone might have some insight here?
Thanks, Matt
Only issue I see with the battery on the drivers side is the distance to the starter with an unfused hot lead. Might or might not be both a safety issue and maybe too much of a voltage drop over the distance. I'm sure it could work either way though.
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Amazing work Matt!
You should not have any issues with a battery mounted on the drivers side. Single or double ott (0 or 00) welding cable, ran through split loom, and secured properly will give you years of trouble free starts, and voltage drop will be a non-factor.
11 days....
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You should not have any issues with a battery mounted on the drivers side. Single or double ott (0 or 00) welding cable, ran through split loom, and secured properly will give you years of trouble free starts, and voltage drop will be a non-factor.
11 days....
-Steve
