little orphan annie

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Living in the Past said:
I think you will find a bracket on the underside of the fender. There should be a nut welded on the bracket where that hole is. These were for the early front seat belts and very common to rust. I have two 62s the early one is just a tub and didn't have the bracket. My later 62 does but doesn't have as much rust. When you do your body work it's best to remove the bracket for the repairs then spot weld back in. Keep it washed out and dry and should last a long time.
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X2. check out my build to get a heads up on what you are in for.
https://forum.ih8mud.com/showpost.php?p=5007717&postcount=53

The seat belt brackets start at #53 and then there is a little more info spread over the next couple of pages.

Keep up the good work.
 
Plan was, put one of my spare vac advance/Pertronixed dizzys into Annie. Tested the vac advance on the older dizzy (the one with the cool little oiler gizmo) orally, no plate movement. Scrapped that idea. Took the Pertronix out of that dizzy, put it into Annie's original dizzy. Put the points & condenser & screws & stuff in a ziploc bag and put that bag in the glove box. Took the coil off so I could see where to wire up the Pertronix, soaking the coil mount now.
There was a capacitator looking thing sharing the mount bolt with the coil mount, one wire going to the negative pole of the coil...do we need this with the Pertronix?
Oh, also fixed the drag link, sprayed some paint and put a buffer to her...I'm sure Ige will have some pics later.
 
yup, pic time. this is not what the drag link looked like. used a standard kurt at cruiser outfitters joint fuji end repair kit with an oem toyota drag link end/rod combo. the rod is a touch longer, but like the relay rod (or was it the tie rod?), there is sooooo much thread on each end originally, that the updated version fits just fine.
then, i mixed some of the paint from the blue pigs roof and tested my new spray gun (didn't like my old gun and i'm a woman...we shop). after determining all was good, i mixed up some of the paint my body shop guys made for me and pighead and i went to town.

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fuel tank is almost completely painted (just to use up the paint...wasn't looking for a new paint job), jump seat looks mostly painted, but it's just the rusty areas that i had ground and rustbulleted. it's off to the upholsterers now and i'll get the other jump seat back to grind/rustbullet/paint. (he's been using it as a template).

put some thin rubber down for the fuel tank to sit on so it doesn't rub through like it was doing. also, painted under the tank and toolbox. cut new pads for under the battery tray and installed the new group 27 battery (which was just a tad too big), just need a holddown for it.

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nuclearlemon said:
also did a lot of cleaning on the battery tray...wire brush, followed by wire wheel and metalprep, finalized with sos paint...have to say, i'm falling in love with seymour of sycamore paints. how in the hell did i come from illinois and not know about this paint?!!!!!
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What is SOS paint?
Is it Seymour paint (doesn't NAPA sell that?)?
Is it Sycamore paint?
What do you love about it?
 
nuclearlemon said:
another productive day.

after a lot of scrubbing, followed by a lot of scrubbing, followed by some pick action, and finally some more scrubbing, the oil pan is down to metal again. gasket is officially off.

from there, it was an afternoon under the rig with the scraper, a pick, a flat head screwdriver and a wire brush, so i could, surprise!, scrub some more.

then we pushed her out into the driveway to scrub while rinsing and so i could clean the floor and the cardboard that was under her and replace with fresh cardboard,

that was followed by soaking and scrubbing the lower flywheel cover (i didnt' take off the front one, probably should, quite frankly, i'm sick of scrubbing)

oil filter cover and front cover got painted, and a new seal in the front cover. oil filter housing got drained. skid plate is painted, fan blade is a nice orange. oh, and did i mention, she got scrubbed up today.....
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Lots of scrubbing, but I am thinking that it was all that grime that has kept her so well preserved...
 
PabloCruise said:
WTF?!?
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Apparently, it does happen with the brass floats...I found a couple threads on motorcycle forums on how to re-inflate floats. I couldn't re-inflate this one, so I got another. I took the crushed one apart, will see if I can put it back together again.
 
PabloCruise said:
What is SOS paint?
Is it Seymour paint (doesn't NAPA sell that?)?
Is it Sycamore paint?
What do you love about it?
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seymour of sycamore is sos. we used to carry their mro paint which was an industrial paint, now we carry the spruce from their automotive line. it goes on much thicker and better quality than the krylon/ace/rustoleum paints. very easy to work with. very consistent
 
while pighead cooked up brunch, i went to town with a razor knife and some rubber. i had an old bed mat that for the last decade or so has slowly given up bits of it's life for various projects. all but the last few small pieces are gone now. some of it got used for the battery tray to frame mount isolators, some for the toolbox, some for the glove box.

also, put on the sexy new straps from d'animal ....BLING

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i had to notch the bed mat where the jack sits (just around the one raised area for the screw), otherwise the jack sat up too high. but it's done.

no, i mean it's done. really. it's done. we took her out for what came up on the odo as a 10 mile drive and she did great. well, except that our 10 mile drive probably wasn't 10 miles. at one point the speedo said we were doing 60...i don't think so.

in the future, we have to tweak the carb a bit, get the wipers and the horns working, some body work and mount the fuse block to the firewall (it was mounted on the heater and the wires must've been shortened at some point because they're not long enough to allow it to bolt up where it should go).

i'm going to work on buffing the paint up a bit more. and need to start figuring out the future softtop bows and doors.

man it felt great to have her go up the driveway and into the garage on her own power!!!

http://youtu.be/_1PdHBgBigg

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She drives pretty well. Peppy even. The idle seems a little rough, fiddling with the carb doesn't change it much. Seems to idle at 800-850 RPM, doesn't jump around, just slowly back & forth. Idle mixture screw doesn't seem to change anything. Hard to rotate the dizzy much with that hard vacuum line...am I suppose to disconnect that line to time it?
 
Pighead said:
...am I suppose to disconnect that line to time it?
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I believe you do want to remove that vacuum line to time it.

The old girl is looking good, great work so far :beer:
 
nuclearlemon said:
WOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

what a day! so much to report! she is running again...and as she should be!!!! oil dripping from the rocker assy, the carb feeding fuel! yessssssss!!!!!!!!

but let's start at the beginning.

while pighead rebuilt the carb, i worked on making the two gaskets i needed that were unobtanium...the pressure regulator and the thermostat gasket

also hooked up the new oil lines (uuuuummmmm....preeeettttttyyyyyy)

and got the front cover all set to go on, so pighead could hammer the damper home
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That is awesome!

What material did you use to make gaskets?
 
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