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71 Road Runner Restoration Started

roadrunnerman said:
With all the great work you are doing here, I'm beginning to think that you have both cars done already and it is still taking this long for all the photos to catch up.
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I was laughing while I typed above and thinking the same thing to myself afterward RRman.

71 AG please take my post above and this one as the joke as it's intended 71 AG. Our posts are meant as compliments. Thanks so much for sharing. You are doing an excellent job and we appreciate it all.
 
What ???? Me worry ????? Never.............

tallhair said:
I was laughing while I typed above and thinking the same thing to myself afterward RRman.

71 AG please take my post above and this one as the joke as it's intended 71 AG. Our posts are meant as compliments. Thanks so much for sharing. You are doing an excellent job and we appreciate it all.
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Please don't worry about offending me. My Dad, who was a Korean War veteran, stayed in the Army for around 14 years eventually becoming a Drill Sgt. and Green Beret. Believe me I have pretty thick skin.

I knew it was a joke and I'm glad you guys have a great sense of humor. Life is too short to worry about the little things like that.

They were some pretty funny posts !!!!!

Thanks for the compliments.
 
Hey we already have one Alfred E. Newman around here! LOL. Glad you took it as intended brother.
 
MAD Comic books............

tallhair said:
Hey we already have one Alfred E. Newman around here! LOL. Glad you took it as intended brother.
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I was wondering if anyone would ever catch that one........... I really liked Spy vs. Spy

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Today didn't go as originally planned. Instead I spent a good part of the day doing errands and a few "honey do's" around the house. However, some progress was made on the car.

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I was able to install the power brake booster and bolted on the master cylinder. The master cylinder is a brand new unit from NAPA and not a remanufactured one. Part # M2066.

It cost $44.49, plus $11.17 in shipping, and no core charge was needed. It was ordered directly from the manufacturer and took about a week for it to come in. For the little extra in cost and time, it gave me a little more peace of mind. Nothing against remanufactured parts, (sometimes that's all you can get), but with brakes I try to go the extra step and install new parts when they are available. Believe me, back in the day I rebuilt many master cylinders, calipers and wheel cylinders.

I still have to connect the brake lines though. Prior to installing the master cylinder, I sprayed it with clear engine enamel to preserve the natural cast iron finish. I wanted to preserve the inspections stamps as they are on the master cylinder right now. I know they are not "factory correct", but it gives the appearance of being so. I am just making this into a nice every day driver.

They make a cast iron spray paint that is available in a can too, if you ever need to coat something to keep it from rusting and want to replicate the cast iron "look".

Right now my priority is to get the dash back in the car.

But I'll have to admit. The rest of the engine compartment compared to the booster and master cylinder look rather shabby. That's OK. I will be painting the engine bay when the 318 is removed. I will detail everything up nice then. The brake booster will have to come back out again, but it's not too hard to get to the nuts under the dash.

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The emergency brake pedal assembly is still soaking in my parts washer. Hopefully in a few days it will be bolted back in along with the heater / AC box. That is all I need to do before the dash can go back in.
 
Every time I click on your thread, it never ceases to amaze me the attention to detail that you put in. If I went back in time to buy this car new, I don't think it would be as nice as what you are doing here.
 
Headed Out to the Shop..............

Yesterday I picked up a set of door jamb switches from a local parts store. The wiring connections look to be the same but the thread size looks a little too small to me. I will find out in a few minutes if they will fit or not. Its been raining on and off here for the past several days. Today appears to be the same. Hopefully I can get the emergency brake pedal finished along with the AC / heater box.

If I'm really lucky they will get bolted in too.

I'll let you all know how it went later on tonight.
 
Dash is Back in !!!!!!!!!!!

Today went better than expected. I was able to disassemble and glass bead the emergency brake pedal. This was followed by detail painting and reassembly.............

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Then I started taking the heater / AC box apart for a good cleaning too.

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The old original heater core is on the bottom.

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Then once everything was cleaned / clear coated the box was reassembled and installed back in the car.............

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Then the emergency brake pedal was reinstalled.............

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Followed by the dash assembly..........................

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The dash is SO much easier to install with the windshield out. It only took me about 10 minutes to bolt it in place and connect everything back up to it.

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Hopefully tomorrow I can clean / paint/ install the ash tray and glove box liner and door. Then I will be bolting the original steering column back in for now just so I can drive the car off the front ramp of my shop. The column will be coming back out again shortly. I need to go through it and convert it over to a floor shift version. As promised, there will be a detailed write up and a bunch of photos when that task is being done.

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The door jamb switches did NOT fit. The thread sizes were too small. I'm wondering if I install a Heli - Coli Thread insert on them if they might fit.

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I have a set of AC vent louvers to replace some of the missing ones on the center dash outlet. Looking back, I should have fixed that before I installed the dash.

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And one last thing........... The 4 headliner bows arrived today. I installed them to make sure they fit. (which they did).

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That's all folks !!!!!!!!!!!!

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tallhair said:
Does thinking that parking brake is beautiful make me weird?
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Nope, not at all. Just a die hard MOPAR fan !!!!

Thanks !!!
 
Man, I love what your doing! You sure are making this look easy, and fast. Looking really good and i myself think that instrument panel looks cool in this build, Not to give you any ideas but i do wonder what a white instrument panel would look like in this sinister ride coming! :)
 
Two steps forward, One step back..........

Today was spent trying to fix the dash vent louvers. I had several extra sets from a Duster, but they did not fit. However I was able to take the assembly apart and use the vertical fins on the 72 dash.

This involved taking the dash back out again though. I never would have been able to gain access to the vents if the wood grain bezel wasn't removed. Even after the bezel was removed it was a major PITA to try and swap the vertical fins over.

Everything was buttoned back up and I started working on the ash tray and glove box door.

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If you look very close you can see the slight difference between the fins from the Duster and the originals.
 
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The Duster verticals are on the left side. The connecting link is higher and the center one has knurling on the edge to assist with gripping the part to change the air flow direction.

But hey, this car will be driven.

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:icon_thumright:wow that's looking real thanks for another nice update :headbang:
 
When I bought this car the wiper motor and linkage were missing. I had an extra linkage from an E body car. I knew I had a spare 3 speed wiper motor............. somewhere.

This was bothering me so I just had to find it. After a while I searching for it, I found it stashed away. I bolted it in position and connected the wiring harness to the bulkhead connector. Once the steering column is in I will test it to see if it works.

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An now for the step back..........

When I was installing the ash tray I heard a "pop" and it came from the far right passenger side of the dash. I found out later what the noise was. One screw that secured the plastic wood grain bezel to the dash frame popped loose. This allowed the end of the wood grain part to pull away from the black dash pad cover.


I will probably have to remove the dash again in order to fix this..............

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71airgrabberRR said:
When I bought this car the wiper motor and linkage were missing. I had an extra linkage from an E body car. I knew I had a spare 3 speed wiper motor............. somewhere.

This was bothering me so I just had to find it. After a while I searching for it, I found it stashed away. I bolted it in position and connected the wiring harness to the bulkhead connector. Once the steering column is in I will test it to see if it works.

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An now for the step back..........

When I was installing the ash tray I heard a "pop" and it came from the far right passenger side of the dash. I found out later what the noise was. One screw that secured the plastic wood grain bezel to the dash frame popped loose. This allowed the end of the wood grain part to pull away from the black dash pad cover.


I will probably have to remove the dash again in order to fix this..............

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I had the same problem on mine, same place and im trying to remember what i did to fix it, been awhile but i didn't have to take the dash out, ummm, it'll come to me! lol, always something... Seems i bent the tab out a little and got more threads for it in, brain fart here i guess! :(

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I don't have air in mine so i cant place what yours is like, it could be different i guess..
 
I'm only human LOL

tallhair said:
Stop the presses! I have never heard you utter anything like that before :)


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Thanks GOON! I feel better now LOL!
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It's probably a good thing no little ones were around. I ended up breaking the tabs on several of the vertical fins, both while removing them from the Duster part and installing them on the B Body part. Luckily I had several sets of these laying around. I ended up using most of what I had because the tabs kept breaking.:angry1::angryfire:

Once the fins were in place, I had to heat a small screw driver tip and melt the ends over on the small tabs to keep the center alignment link in place. The A body alignment link was plastic while the B body one is metal.

Believe me, after several hours of this my patience was wearing thin. I'm sure I uttered a few choice words along the way !!!!!:eek:

Overall it wasn't much fun............... But it's done now.:hello2:

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Ron 73 said:
I had the same problem on mine, same place and im trying to remember what i did to fix it, been awhile but i didn't have to take the dash out, ummm, it'll come to me! lol, always something... Seems i bent the tab out a little and got more threads for it in, brain fart here i guess! :(

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I don't have air in mine so i cant place what yours is like, it could be different i guess..
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That's a good idea Ron. I will look at it hopefully Saturday AM and see what can be done. Part of my dash problem is the little metal cap that is pressed on a stud on the wood grain dash bezel popped off. The plastic stud is still OK, and the cap has the screw still inside of it. When I try to loosen the screw, the whole cap turns freely. I have to figure out a way to hold the screw cap while I remove the screw from above / behind the glove box.

Thanks brother. Meanwhile, if you remember please let me know how you fixed yours.

Thanks.
 
Louis, I seem to think my glove box was out but im not sure.. BUT, i have my old Satellite bezel in my radio room (My indoor cave) and i was looking at it, IF you can push the bezel into the cap, could you put some super glue onto the plastic stud, push it back in and once dry hopefully it will work, maybe stay in place, i didn't think of super glue back when it happened but i used something and im thinking it was JB weld, that stuff takes longer to dry but works well..
I had things like this happen a few times and sometimes if i had help pushing it in and holding it, i could unscrew or take a nut off while its being held tight against it. I hope it works out for ya and im sure you'll get it, i wish i could think of something else to keep you from having to take the dash out, that would suck!
 
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