Show us the tool(s) used to properly fit them......
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- #462
Its not any special tool its just a hook basically. Simple and great mechanics.. and last foreverShow us the tool(s) used to properly fit them......
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- #463
Rear heater is getting ready..
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- #464
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- #465
ready from all angle
For sliding rubber insulation over things, Armorall works well. In my business we jacket very long cable assemblies with Neoprene tubing using compressed air. Once the tubing is inflated, you can slide the wire bundle thru it easily. The tubing you used was probably a little thin for this method.
I've always wondered how those cotter pin clamps go together. Would be interesting to see the process. They are a major pain to cut off to replace a hose and with every one I have had to cut off my dislike for them has grown lol.
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- #468
Cotter pins are great inventions .. to me at least for a person appreciate items created to work and last for long.
It is a strap spinned around the pipe twice (similarly to the wire clamps) and locked with the friction between the surface of the overlapping design.
If they rusted then its a pain to remove. If they not then just pull the pin and fold off the straps. As long as the straps has elasticity you can re-use them. When you open and closed too much and worried about its weakness the easiest way is to totally unfold the strap and put it back the other way around. The pin and the buckle will never wear off. At worst you can replace the strap. In the olden days straps were sold by the yard in coil rolls and you could tight any diameter of pipe. The idea is you need to cut a strap 6.5x the diameter of the pipe you want to clamp. Ie. 1/2" pipe will need 3 1/4 strap (circumference x2 plus 1/2 the coil on the pin is the math)
It is installed or removed with a hook. So its not that complicated at all..
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Also Toyota used the cotter pin clamps on the side of the joining pipe which should stay fix and wire clamps at the other side which is easier to be removed. The heater side is cotter pin and the pipe side of the hose is wire clamps. Same with the split pipes at the front. The front heater is connected with wire clamps but the joints to the rear heater are cotter pin clamps. It all makes sense and suggests what to open and what to leave as is when it comes to the removal of these units.
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Wow, Finally.. the tub is very close to completion and its transportation is now in the mercy of our rainy weather ..
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Tub is ready, back again in stock 464 beige. She's coming home on Tuesday. Very happy with Karson and his team at KPAZ Automotive Spraypainters in Welshpool. He has a special love for Cruisers so he is highly recommended.
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Looks factory fresh nice work
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Just wait until I take it to sunlight reporting on the orange peel soon
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- #475
Single stage, straight out of the gun, commercial quality (orange peel effect).
Just how they did them back in the day..
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.. corrosion proofing down-under 
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W. E. L. C. O. M. E. . . . . H. O. M. E. !!!
Vossie
#thecrazycruiserman
getting close!
Indestructible 47
SILVER Star
all the stickers caught my attention. not sure what all the fuss is about?
nah, seriously nice job buddy, i reckon it looks awesome. makes me want to do mine, bank account does not agree though.
nah, seriously nice job buddy, i reckon it looks awesome. makes me want to do mine, bank account does not agree though.
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Fuel tank goes on while body on rotisserie
