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Seriously, when I was a trainee at Fort Lewis back in 1986, they gave us a mid training weekend break. I took the opportunity to get a car from Rent A Wreck, and it was a 1966 Lincoln sedan. Too cool for school
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Got warm so the Lincoln got some sun today. Bodywork was officially good enough because I made the choice to get it driving and fix it from there.
I hit it with black epoxy primer after finishing the filler and blocking down a coat of Slick Sand. I have a body line that isn't good enough for black, but so far that's the only thing I see I need to fix. Im sure while driving it I'll find more.
Dog approved
Glass is at the tint shop. 5% on the sides and back.
I hit it with black epoxy primer after finishing the filler and blocking down a coat of Slick Sand. I have a body line that isn't good enough for black, but so far that's the only thing I see I need to fix. Im sure while driving it I'll find more.
Dog approved
Glass is at the tint shop. 5% on the sides and back.
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Spent the entire weekend going through bins looking for parts. Unwise choices were made. I should have been wiring while waiting for another two gallons of epoxy primer sealer. Instead, I assembled doors so I could see what they looked like. To be fair, I needed to see what I have and what I can't find. I currently can't find 3 door latches and the wiper transmission. The drivers door came off to do the underdash wiring, then loosely thrown together to see what parts I have. Loosely enough that the trim pins dont need to be forced apart. It has the worst armrest assembly by far. Looks like i can patch with 3D printed parts and not have to model the whole thing.
The rest of the doors got tracks cleaned, lubed and installed. Window vents are installed except the crank mechanisms need repair. Might have to upgrade to power vents. Three of the regulators were slow. The best creeped slowly until the tension spring was unloaded. The worst needed PB, heat and a cheater bar on the long arm to get it to move. The last one exploded once the motor was free as expected. That was the only one with a good plastic gear and a motor not stamped FoMoCo. New repair kits on the way. Regulators all free and lubed.
Wife broke the kitchen clock face on the time change. Another reason to hate it. I salvaged the works and put them in the Lincoln clock that had bad coils. The face is yellowed from cig smoke or coil wire insulation. Im not sure what to clean it with. Maybe the sonic cleaner.
The rest of the doors got tracks cleaned, lubed and installed. Window vents are installed except the crank mechanisms need repair. Might have to upgrade to power vents. Three of the regulators were slow. The best creeped slowly until the tension spring was unloaded. The worst needed PB, heat and a cheater bar on the long arm to get it to move. The last one exploded once the motor was free as expected. That was the only one with a good plastic gear and a motor not stamped FoMoCo. New repair kits on the way. Regulators all free and lubed.
Wife broke the kitchen clock face on the time change. Another reason to hate it. I salvaged the works and put them in the Lincoln clock that had bad coils. The face is yellowed from cig smoke or coil wire insulation. Im not sure what to clean it with. Maybe the sonic cleaner.
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Headliner is on the bows, but I'm waiting on tack strip. Meanwhile, Im trying to consolodate parts, finding what I have, what fasteners I need and where their holes are under the sound deadener. At this point I have all the stainless and chrome trim accounted for. I need a couple of kinds of clips.
Front and rear window trim clips in. 4 of the mounting pins needed to be fabricated, mostly from rust repaire way back on page 2. A roofing nail cut down and welded in a drilled hole made a dandy clip pin. Im not ready to put glass in, so the trim is loose in the clips. Tomorrow is dash day. I suspect having the front glass out will be helpful.
Still need to find my door latches and linkages. No point in putting the very fragile arm rests in while I still need to get in the doors. The one latch i can find is in the driver door. Im leaving that door off until the dash is all wired. Suicide doors suck on extra cab 1st gen tundras and they kinda suck when working on the lincoln.
Opera lights are wired up. Door harnesses are all plugged in.
I use these magnets for making templates. They work well for holding headliner tight too.
The carpet under the drivers dash covers many horrors. We'll see what a dick past Gum was.
Front and rear window trim clips in. 4 of the mounting pins needed to be fabricated, mostly from rust repaire way back on page 2. A roofing nail cut down and welded in a drilled hole made a dandy clip pin. Im not ready to put glass in, so the trim is loose in the clips. Tomorrow is dash day. I suspect having the front glass out will be helpful.
Still need to find my door latches and linkages. No point in putting the very fragile arm rests in while I still need to get in the doors. The one latch i can find is in the driver door. Im leaving that door off until the dash is all wired. Suicide doors suck on extra cab 1st gen tundras and they kinda suck when working on the lincoln.
Opera lights are wired up. Door harnesses are all plugged in.
I use these magnets for making templates. They work well for holding headliner tight too.
The carpet under the drivers dash covers many horrors. We'll see what a dick past Gum was.
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Piddling away at stuff. Im missing a tote. It might have left with the 72 Benz. Now i think I need a parts car. Parts are silly. $7 each for molding clips. 28 per side. Im gonna have to fire up the printer. I wish I could print weatherstrip. An incomplete kit with sketchy moldings is $2k.
I'd replaced the old Ford relays with newer Bosch ones, so I needed a bracket. I watched several episodes of Project Binky for inspiration.
Marked it out, cut it out, made the bends, (broke? braked?) Painted it black because I bought a Lincoln and I had to paint it black. Hid it in the bottom of the door. This is why this thing takes forever.
New wiring routed and plugged in on the other doors. Im leaving the left front off and I need to take the left rear back off too. As any access cab owner knows, clamshell doors suck. They suck a lot with a two post lift.
Rebuilt both the vent cranks. It doesn't have the optional power vents. Seems like something it needs. Drivers door was missing parts. If you crank it hard because the window is frozen, the worm gear pushes the cover off. I found a washer and snap ring to fit.
Benz got the garage. Lexus got the boot. Lincoln owns the whole shop now. The best way to store a car is car shaped.
Pair of 4x10s for the parcel shelf installed. Tack strip for the headliner arrived too. I drilled the holes and test fit one side. Ready to finish that job.
I'd replaced the old Ford relays with newer Bosch ones, so I needed a bracket. I watched several episodes of Project Binky for inspiration.
Marked it out, cut it out, made the bends, (broke? braked?) Painted it black because I bought a Lincoln and I had to paint it black. Hid it in the bottom of the door. This is why this thing takes forever.
New wiring routed and plugged in on the other doors. Im leaving the left front off and I need to take the left rear back off too. As any access cab owner knows, clamshell doors suck. They suck a lot with a two post lift.
Rebuilt both the vent cranks. It doesn't have the optional power vents. Seems like something it needs. Drivers door was missing parts. If you crank it hard because the window is frozen, the worm gear pushes the cover off. I found a washer and snap ring to fit.
Benz got the garage. Lexus got the boot. Lincoln owns the whole shop now. The best way to store a car is car shaped.
Pair of 4x10s for the parcel shelf installed. Tack strip for the headliner arrived too. I drilled the holes and test fit one side. Ready to finish that job.
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Got it turned around in the shop to better work on the left side. The thing is stupid huge to walk around and better lit on the shop side versus the wall side. The right side is pretty done, but there's way more stuff to do on the left. I pulled both doors to install the latches, the door lock solenoids and the other little things to get them done. Its way easier to work on the under dash and interior trim with the doors off, especially on the hoist. The latches were missing a return spring on one, had rusty scraps on another and a pretty good one on the third. Easy to see what I needed, where it went and what happened. Unfortunately, I investigated why after the first one I installed wouldn't latch. The they wouldn't unlatch after I found some springs in an assortment I had ordered once.
A cycle through the sonic cleaner, spray clean with some acetone, a good soak on all the moving surfaces with PB and then some white lithium after wiping off the excess PB. They all work good now. Good parts. All the fasteners in the holes. All the linkages. Gotta expect a little fiddling on parts that were last lubed in the LBJ administration. The 4th latch was a bit different being a 66. The others are from a 69. The 66 has a spiral spring. Still benefited from a cleaning.
Got the front seat back in and bolted down. Electrics all still work when I jumped the power and ground with a PowerProbe.
Headliner is done. I have one more chunk of trim at the top of the rear window, but it's all stapled to the tack strip. It came out pretty OK. Turns out getting the wrinkles out just requires pulling it tight and hitting it with a SAE s*** ton of staples. I'll remember next time I get the Magnum condoms by mistake.
I was gonna glue in the glass, but it's easier to do the trim with it out. Makes for a different Pic with the 5% tinted glass out
The carpet, however is molded so it won't pull tight. I might need the rear heat ducts back in to tighten up the center hump.
A cycle through the sonic cleaner, spray clean with some acetone, a good soak on all the moving surfaces with PB and then some white lithium after wiping off the excess PB. They all work good now. Good parts. All the fasteners in the holes. All the linkages. Gotta expect a little fiddling on parts that were last lubed in the LBJ administration. The 4th latch was a bit different being a 66. The others are from a 69. The 66 has a spiral spring. Still benefited from a cleaning.
Got the front seat back in and bolted down. Electrics all still work when I jumped the power and ground with a PowerProbe.
Headliner is done. I have one more chunk of trim at the top of the rear window, but it's all stapled to the tack strip. It came out pretty OK. Turns out getting the wrinkles out just requires pulling it tight and hitting it with a SAE s*** ton of staples. I'll remember next time I get the Magnum condoms by mistake.
I was gonna glue in the glass, but it's easier to do the trim with it out. Makes for a different Pic with the 5% tinted glass out
The carpet, however is molded so it won't pull tight. I might need the rear heat ducts back in to tighten up the center hump.
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