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: & tedious: part of doin' your car?
Bill Curious
: & tedious: part of doin' your car?Bill Curious
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Right now it is the rear body panel for the delivery. Bottom 5 inches were almost non-existant. Add to it the fact the panel and stiffeners are bent right at the beltline on each side. I have made a jig for straightening the stiffeners and am saving pennies to get the tanks for the torch so I can heat them in the places needed and shrink them in a few places. I salvaged and pieced out a tudor body last year and kept the rear seat support to correctly set the height as I weld in a full width patch. Nerve racking as finding a replacement rear panel for it would be near impossible to find. The stiffeners are the same shape as the tudor, but made differently. RodLast edited by Rowdy; 07-12-2017, 01:55 PM."Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good." Thomas Sowell -
Removing 9 broken head studs... that was nerve wracking! The biggest relief was at the end checking the last stud for fit and not having to thread insert a single one.
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When I purchased my car ;-(
I was 1 1/2 hours from the man I purchased it from and 1 1/2 hours from home. The car quit running what the heck do I do? Step back, cooled off it was very hot weather, it started up and continued home :-) Many years later replaced the ignition
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Body work, painting. I hate it but if you do not want to pay big bucks, you got to do it.Comment
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Brother Purdy,
My Friend, Ron, was a GENIUS at blowing broken studs from CAST IRON! He used a small "special" cutting torch & when done, he could "almost" screw in a stud, without running the threads!!!
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The most nerve racking thing for me is assembling a freshly painted restoration, you have to be so careful not to scratch the new paint. I basically sweat bullets throughout the build.
3~ Tudor's & 1~ Coupe
Henry Ford said,
"It's all nuts and bolts"
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
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Tinkering with the rear brakes. I just hate tearing the rear brake assemblies apart.Comment
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YEP, Son,
If working on STRANGE brakes, take apart ONE side at a time!!---Then I "wonder"---DID THE LAST JACKASS PUT THEM TOGETHER CORRECTLY???----I'm my own WORST enemy, I "think" TOO MUCH???
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