Well the plan this past weekend was to continue work on the hood.
But it would seem that Mother Nature had other plans and messed with mine by dropping a giant snowball on them. I had my dad give me a hand on Wednesday pulling the hood back off when he was over for a visit so I could flip it upside down and get all the edges painted. (Color change on that panel)
The only way I could physically have enough room to do that is with the car out of the garage. There just simply isn’t enough room with it inside. But then Snowmageddon 2019 happened, and I damn sure wasn’t about to put the car outside in this crap:
So, time to adapt and overcome. Scrapping the plans to work on the hood and with the driver’s side mirror more or less ready to go, I decided to work on the driver’s side fender mounted signal indicator.
You guys have seen me do this on the other side, I levelled it out on the fender and applied some All Metal to build up the gap on the outside edge so it sits properly:
The tape keeps it from sticking to the fender, and makes it a little easier to get off once it sets up:
Then it was just a matter of blocking it out uniformly and removing the excess from the inside.
Fits like a glove now!
While I was at it, I tackled respraying the lens for it, transparent blue for the high beams and amber for the signals:
This simple restoration should make a huge difference in their appearance and functionality.
On a roll, I dove straight into the next project. Stripping down the driver’s side door jamb.
Here’s how nasty it looked before I started:
Again, because of Ma Nature and her evil trick, I was forced to try and work with only this much room between the cars because I couldn’t move either one:
It wasn’t as much a problem wedging myself in tight spots like this when I was 26, but at 46 it’s a little tougher and these old bones didn’t appreciate it much.
But I digress.
I persevered and between Sunday afternoon and this evening, I got a considerable amount of it done. Here’s the worst spot, a nasty bit of iron oxide trying to take root:
Pinch weld straightened out, all the old paint, seam sealer and crap gone:
Nasty rust spot no more:
Still have the front 1/4 or so of the jamb part of the rocker left to go, as well as the entire outer face of it. The outer face won’t be too much of an issue, but anything inside further forward of where I stopped is going to have to wait until the snowdrift that is my alley melts a bit and I can spin the car around.
At least it’s progress.
D.
But it would seem that Mother Nature had other plans and messed with mine by dropping a giant snowball on them. I had my dad give me a hand on Wednesday pulling the hood back off when he was over for a visit so I could flip it upside down and get all the edges painted. (Color change on that panel)
The only way I could physically have enough room to do that is with the car out of the garage. There just simply isn’t enough room with it inside. But then Snowmageddon 2019 happened, and I damn sure wasn’t about to put the car outside in this crap:
So, time to adapt and overcome. Scrapping the plans to work on the hood and with the driver’s side mirror more or less ready to go, I decided to work on the driver’s side fender mounted signal indicator.
You guys have seen me do this on the other side, I levelled it out on the fender and applied some All Metal to build up the gap on the outside edge so it sits properly:
The tape keeps it from sticking to the fender, and makes it a little easier to get off once it sets up:
Then it was just a matter of blocking it out uniformly and removing the excess from the inside.
Fits like a glove now!
While I was at it, I tackled respraying the lens for it, transparent blue for the high beams and amber for the signals:
This simple restoration should make a huge difference in their appearance and functionality.
On a roll, I dove straight into the next project. Stripping down the driver’s side door jamb.
Here’s how nasty it looked before I started:
Again, because of Ma Nature and her evil trick, I was forced to try and work with only this much room between the cars because I couldn’t move either one:
It wasn’t as much a problem wedging myself in tight spots like this when I was 26, but at 46 it’s a little tougher and these old bones didn’t appreciate it much.
But I digress.
I persevered and between Sunday afternoon and this evening, I got a considerable amount of it done. Here’s the worst spot, a nasty bit of iron oxide trying to take root:
Pinch weld straightened out, all the old paint, seam sealer and crap gone:
Nasty rust spot no more:
Still have the front 1/4 or so of the jamb part of the rocker left to go, as well as the entire outer face of it. The outer face won’t be too much of an issue, but anything inside further forward of where I stopped is going to have to wait until the snowdrift that is my alley melts a bit and I can spin the car around.
At least it’s progress.
D.
