Call me crazy - Ranchero's (again)

[doghows]

Nicely done. Now that one is done time to get Genes on!! Looks as though the "Ghetto" garage is holding up as well.
I am glad to see the cover live on. God know when and if I would have ever got to it.

[Luva65wagon]

Yeah - it was a bit of a pain for such a simple project. But lacking actual instructions added to the apprehension of just "drilling holes." If typically life by the rule of measure twice, cut/drill once. But with this I measured about 20 times or more... with moving and tweaking between each.

The car is staying nice and dry under the ghetto garage, It's unsightly, but not any worse that the vehicles that are sitting under those trees and going green by the minute.

Gene's will be far easier to do than mine was. I learned all the tricks doing mine. He's just got to "get there." But he's close. We talked about first pulling his back window out and reversing the rubber and putting it in the right way. Somebody put that in from the outside in (like the windshield is done), but it's supposed to mount from the inside-out.

Also... I heard from a little birdy... that you may be one Ranchero light now and are the owner of a.... CHEBBY! Ahh, the humanity!

[SmithKid]

A CHEBBY? Has he no shame?

[Luva65wagon]

On my way home I stopped at the paint store up on 45th and the freeway and picked up 3 pints of 1-shot sign-painters enamel (red, black, and white) and will now seriously look at putting my hand to doing the pinstriping. Have a few Kafka brushes now and the grid and brush conditioner, ect., all the stuff he uses. Except for maybe the skill. But I can work on that.

No takers for a car I can practice on?

I guess Gene will just have to wake up one morning to find I snuck over there and practiced on his "big a** not a Chebby Tundra." Lots of surface area there to work with.

[SmithKid]

I think I know where there's a coupla Falcon front fenders to practice on. You have to wash the big a** Tundra anyway. That's prob'ly not gonna happen.

Wait a minute! Think you could kinda hide the scrape on the Tundra driver's side rear fender?
Or..... maybe you could practice in the bed of the Ranchero b/4 I have the bed-liner sprayed?
Or..... maybe under the hood of the Ranchero in the four triangular panels b/4 the insulating stuff goes in there?

[Luva65wagon]

Sure [not planning on washing no Tundra].

I do have some rear Ranchero quarters here. Could practice on them... if it would ever quit raining or snowing! It snowed on my way home today.

[SmithKid]

Good GRIEF! This thread is huge! I just spent the better part of an hour going backwards to find the pics you posted of the holes in the bed floor pan.

[falcon cobra]

Hey gene, I started this in 2008 when roger and I were siting in the fog at the first light of the day going to the snohomish show, and said [ how to tell if your are really car crazy ] and he replyed [ just call me crazy ] .....jh

[Luva65wagon]

Hey - I resemble that remark!

You know you are crazy when you find yourself standing in the garage and it's maybe 45 degrees and you are sorting through plastic baggies of screws and bolts and other assorted leftovers from taking 3 cars apart. So yep, the craziness remains...

[Luva65wagon]

Good GRIEF! This thread is huge! I just spent the better part of an hour going backwards to find the pics you posted of the holes in the bed floor pan.

But it was fun, wasn't it?

[Luva65wagon]

After Jeff W posted the link to this company in his wagon thread I stopped the process of getting one of these made from someone who wanted $85 for one. This was $28 inclusive of shipping. It's a very nice part. Can't see any flaws in it.

I'll post a link to it in the tech talk forum (it's sort of technical) and it will remain there ever more.

[Jeff W]

After Jeff W posted the link to this company in his wagon thread I stopped the process of getting one of these made from someone who wanted $85 for one. This was $28 inclusive of shipping. It's a very nice part. Can't see any flaws in it.

I'll post a link to it in the tech talk forum (it's sort of technical) and it will remain there ever more.

What was wrong with the old one?

Thanks for the reminder, I'm going to order mine this week. How are you going to crimp the fancy rivet guys?

[Luva65wagon]

I have the rivets (he sells them too), but I don't know what tool they use to install them. I'll figure something out. Would like to see if I can do it without removing the door panel, but have not thought that through. Got to stare at 'em a minute or two.

The old one... well... it got stuck in a sand storm me thinks.

[Jeff W]

I studied mine before removal and it looks like the tool goes at it from the front and sort of reaches into this hollow rivet and expands the soft aluminum tube. I think patience and modified tips on my snap ring pliers may do the trick. A dab of RTV wouldn't hurt either.

[Luva65wagon]

Yeah, that's sort of what I pictured in my head and I was going to pick up a cheap pair of pliers or something and grind them into just such a tool. I suspect it takes very little expansion to get these to stay in.