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Still need a picture with the coating on it.
Dude that post area is nasty. Both the hoods I have are good in that area. They just need some luvin where the paint goes on!!
I need to get to work on mine so I can get my count up??:rolleyes:
These are the two I have. Your choice. First 2 pics are the stock hood, and the second 2 pics are the one I re-skinned. Both have good post areas.
Gene and I already put the one I had on yesterday. I'll roll with that a while. Don't let those go and next time you come here or I go there bring or I'll look.
As of last night I'm fighting over-worn window regulators and though I started out with two cars I only have one set of regulators. :confused: The drivers side is in free-run mode with the window brake spring and internals shot. I found a regulator with worn teeth in the gears in the gray tub, with a good-ish brake spring, but the gear/shaft parts were rusted together. So I'm soaking them in CLR to see if I can get them apart. Ford should have allocated this as a lube point... somehow.
While I was dinking with taking those apart, Gene came by and installed my steering wheel and shifter.
Seat on the drivers side, hood latch and catch - I'm down the road. :3g:
Not sure if I have any regulators around, but I will look. I think the spares I had were in that tub at your place. I still the ones in the four door car but they would need to be modified to work?? I will look and let you know.
After spending all day looking for window regulators and (giving up) then deciding to rebuild the two I had, I got the passenger side working well, but the drivers side "brake spring" was so badly worn it wouldn't lock the shaft like it was supposed to. So I measured the spring wire and wrapped some shim material in the drum part to make up for the worn spring. Now the brake worked and I put it together. After putting them all in the car... I found the other two regulators in the box I store all the trim in.
:doh:
Well, I have backups.
All the glass is in now, everything works, and now I can move to putting some seats in and fenders on. By next weekend it will be in the carport and my wagon home for the winter.
I'd pull these. These parts I needed are the same whether four door or two door. The arms are different, yes, but not the crank shaft and brake internals.Quote:
Originally Posted by doghows
Have been hard at it shooting for a musical cars event on Friday. I moved it back and forth in the garage so far and moves nicely.
Most of the interior is in and tonight I got all the splash shields installed so possibly tomorrow I'll be able to test fit the fenders. Also as you see the hood is on and I also have the latch on, though I've got to take some more pictures of all that.
Got most of the stereo stuff mounted temporarily to get all the holes drilled and aligned, but they'll be the last thing I permanently install just before I start driving it. It was easier to figure a lot of that out before I put the seats in.
Should be posting a full profile picture any day.
The first pictures are of the window regulator rebuilding I did. I used 10-32 x 3/8" button-head screws and nylocks instead of rivets, which are just plain a pain. Though it looks like they hit, they just clear. You have to install two of the screws in opposite directions to clear.
Interior work...
SAweeeet!!!! :rocker:
I knew that chrome glove box would come into play someday.. You have done the old girl proud as well as the falcon community in general. Now we need about o more month of decent weather, and one more good car show so I have an excuse to come over and see it in person.:WHATTHE:
Very nicely done. You should pat your self on the back if your elbow will let you!!:D
Wait is that a chrome ash tray I see????
That gray car had a lot of chrome stuff. None of it is "pretty", but it's fine. Still have a lot of stuff to put in, but most can wait for a while. Fenders are being looked at tonight.
I think I noticed that I may have sent you over two of the same small curve bed chrome pieces. I kept the two I wanted, but they must have been the same side. Have a look at the ones I sent over to see if you have two of the same side.
Roger that!?! Uh I mean OK. I have them on the bench in the shop. Do you need either of them or do you have one for each side??
Here it is outside again after 7 months in the womb. A bit premature, but had to. The wagon is out of storage and back into the garage.
I'll start looking around for a... what did Bill Williams call it... a ghetto garage? I'll be putting one of these up just outside the garage so I can put the flarechero there so I don't have to scrape snow and ice off my daily driver.
It was a real challenge getting the fender to fit on the passenger side. It's going to need some more tweaking, but that side of the car, where the fender meets the door, is tight - just like the door was in its opening. I only have them hanging by a few bolts, since I need to pull them off and do more work to get them on for good.
Still plenty of tweaks to do.
Next time we see each other - here or there - we can bring the ones we have and look at them again.Quote:
Originally Posted by doghows
Lookin Good! Gotta luv the gas filler :rocker:
Yeah hooray!!!!! Must feel good to have the wagon home again. Flarechero is looking good. No at least the burden of storage fees is gone. Now you can slow up a bit and get it done when you want and not when you have to.
On another note I think those trim pieces I have are different. I think one for each side? We will get them all in a pile and see.
Congratulations on the flarechero I know it runs cause I've seen your driveway and you ain't pushing it there.:shift:
I'm thinking I'll probably do the all black thing for a while. You know how we hate body work. At least it'll all look the same.
No worries on the trim. Well figure it out.
Gene donated a car cover for it. Fits pretty well. Thanks for that Gene.
The black with red wheels looks good.. Go for it, I had a guy drive me nuts about mine. He finally made me an offer I could not refuse. I won't talk $ but lets just say I did not get hurt. So the black with red wheels is all your again.:D
Did you drive her around the block, or just over to the car port?? I would have gone for a cruise but I have a more remote area for my test drives. (no cops)...
Keep us posted and the more pics the merrier.[thumb]
No, I just backed it down the drive and up the other side. Did OK but stalled when I got to the top for some reason. Started right back up. Need to still do some fine tuning.
As for black - 7777 Satin black Derusto - Home Depot - maybe $20 total. It'll be beautiful. Ours can be twins.
Guess you missed part of that last post. I sold the black one. Guy was after her pretty bad so I sold her off. Got me eye on another one however.?. What a sickness we have. Anyway glad to see the flarechero move. It looks good with the fenders on the back like that. I'll keep you posted on the new chero if it transpires...
I did miss that. Good going. Well, be sure to post when you have a new one.
I might use some of the cash to focus back on the delivery again. I sure would like to get it on the road by summer (if we ever get one). Right now is sanding and more sanding...:doh:
Spent the weekend (after a brief visit to Gene's on Saturday morning) doing some bodywork on the Flarechero. Got a little carried away.
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Your driveway sure has changed though.:confused: I remember a bit more incline than that.
Flarechero and flare driveway! :rocker:
Yeah - and who put those Oregone plates on it!
OK, just funnin' ya. That one's not mine.
I have been doing that dreaded body work thing though. Steve, I'm with ya... I hate body work. But it's coming along. Almost have the entire right side, hood, and half-way down the drivers side, all smoothed out of it's little dents. I hope to be able to spray the satin black by the end of the weekend. Fingers crossed.
Also, I ordered tail light buckets for lenses with back-up lights. I looked and poked -- seemed the easiest route to go. Assuming they are in stock and ship sometime soon. The others are really nice, so I will sell those to offset the cost of the new ones.
Where did you order the buckets from?? I can't find them anywhere. But mine has a glitch. I grafted in those panels from the 61, so now I need to use the 61 buckets and tail lights. Do they have those???
I have a brand new set of 63 buckets, lenses and gaskets if any one needs them. I bought them for $175 and found they won't work for me anymore.
Roger when you get done with your body work feel free to come over, I am having a difficult time. I think I am over sanding. Seems to me I fix one and find two more!:doh::doh:
Flarechero is looking very good though. Wish my honey do list would take a vacation...:D
I ordered them from Mac's, but I've looked elsewhere with them either not available or no longer available. What did you get before? The non-back up sets?
I didn't see the earlier style, but didn't really look for that style, so could have missed 'em if they had 'em.
With the satin black - and being a "driver", I ain't sweating the small stuff. I just want it done.
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Originally Posted by luva65wagon
OK, I guess I should have qualified that statement by ending it with "anymore ." Burnout has come and gone and been replaced with something resembling two very bald tires. :3g:Quote:
Originally Posted by redfalken
I thought you jambed it the gun metal gray... At what point did you change to satin black? Did I miss something?
I did, but in post 340 I'd mentioned doing the all black thing for a while. Maybe a long while. I'd have to do a lot more body work for anything shiny. Just don't have it in me.
Yes I came across a set at a swap meet. I priced out the package new and it was around $200 buck plus shipping. I got it all for 125 I think. They are no back up but I was after the buckets more than the lens part.
Oh well still have lots of time so I will keep looking.
By the way I am off to pick up a 65 "chero" tonight. The price was right so I will let ya know what I end up with.:o (here we go again)
Well, as I suspected, I got an email from Mac's and the back-up buckets are not available - so back to the drawing board.
I picked up some small halogen bulbs with a wire attached to them and will, I guess, see if I can make an adapter plate to put those in the back-up lens hole. Just more fabrication I hoped I didn't need to do. Oh well.
:doh:
So, then, Steve, I guess you sold the Bronco or traded it for the Ranchero?
No still fiddling with the Bronco. Met a guy at a swap meet and got talking and of course one thing led to another and a smoking deal was struck.
I will put up some pics as soon as I get it out of the trailer.:D
"one thing led to another"...
Almost as bad as "while I'm at it"...
I've been doing nothing but body work the past couple weeks and I'm now ready to start spraying some satin black over this thing. Will be doing multiple coats with a light sanding between coats. It'll be fine for a long time like this.
So tomorrow after I visit Dave to look at the back-up tail light buckets he has, I will be beginning the job of masking off all the bits and pieces and hopefully spray coat #1 tomorrow afternoon.
Also, having already driven it from the garage to the carport and back again, the 13.5" steering wheel I purchased from Jay was just too small. So I found this one on ebay and it's a lot closer to the original size.
This looks better every time I see it. Do you have the little trim pieces that go on each side of the dash pad (next to the doors) to cover the raw ends. They are just flat metal and would be easy to make. I'm going to be installing mine this weekend and can easily trace a pattern for you.
You may want to save that small wheel to use after you install the V-8 with power steering.
I do have those pieces Jeff. Thanks for the offer. I just haven't gone back to finish interior stuff.
I'll probably sell the 13.5 wheel
Thanks to Dave who met up with me early this morning with the tail light buckets I needed and to Gene for helping to mask off the car. It has the first coat of black sprayed on it now, but it's so cold in the garage it'll take a couple days to cure enough to sand in preparation for the second coat. And this satin black never looks good wet.
Sadly the image management doesn't work using this tablet. Bummer.