Broke my 7UP Pop Machine today....

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Both headlight buckets out.

My god how did we get here...

Lots of old dings in her and no doubt some mud. All to be discovered starting tomorrow when the sanders come out.

Headlight buckets home to rebuilt. Fortunately I bought the special extremely thin head bucket bolts and pivot bushings some 19 years ago for $32.45 !

Back bumper.

Passenger door glass and door "cards', as well as the stainless door card trim and the nose bumper.

Tail light housings and lenses, shop has the bezels for paint.

 

[4406bbl]

It will be so nice when done!!

 

[hunt2elk]

She's really snowballing now, you are going to be glad you went this far when all is said and done.

 

[Brandy]

J, M and Joseph.... how did we get here?
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Mission creep.

 

[91r/t]

Holy Ballllzzzzzz its really getting good now. Gotta love when it just slowly creeps into a **** show. That's how she gets done right. That is how my Runner started with a dissassembly and repaint which then turned into new bumpers, gaskets, wiring, etc..... Car looks good so far man keep it up!

 

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Not what I'm supposed to be doing, but here I am cleaning up my "clean area" and adding a table to lay out car parts.

I won't even state the value in this picture.

All this needs to be restored or cleaned up.

Most of the pile now in play, including some window trim for polishing.

About says it all..

If ANYONE has a source for this material, please... please! ... let me know! Thankfully mine is mint!

Nose seals, trunk seal and a door seal.

 

[69 Sleeper Bee]

Not what I'm supposed to be doing, but here I am cleaning up my "clean area" and adding a table to lay out car parts.
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I won't even state the value in this picture.
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All this needs to be restored or cleaned up.
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Most of the pile now in play, including some window trim for polishing.
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About says it all..
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If ANYONE has a source for this material, please... please! ... let me know! Thankfully mine is mint!
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Nose seals, trunk seal and a door seal.
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Not exact but maybe they have something closer.
What size are the hexagons ?

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Vacuum headlight actuator on the drivers side with a correct clevis pin and retainer clip.

Passenger side with a long cotter pin through it and bent over.

End plate off and headlight assembly out.

Vacuum actuator clevis pin and clip.. correct.

What are the chances. I take the cotter pin out of the passenger side, flip the bucket around a few times and the correct clevis pin falls out on the bench. Been rolling around for 35+ years in there..

Both headlight assemblies out, bulb retainers and bulbs removed.

Headlight "buckets" removed from drivers side.

Decals coming off the headlight doors. Heat from BEHIND is the key, not ON the decals.

Beaten up headlight stops need to be removed and new ones made.

Decal coming off the drivers side door.

 

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Progress.

Found that the drivers side door was cracked after removing the decal.

Ground the crack with a spherical ball, as well as some groves for reinforcement.

Cut some old rivet mandrels to fit the groves.

Weapon of choice.

JB mixed and coated over the crack and rivet mandrels.

Worn out and damaged headlight stop drilled off.

Vacuum actuators tested to make sure they are leak free and to clean the bellows while we're here.

Fully extended ready to clean.

 

[dadsbee]

Dollying out 53 years of damage and wows.

Making some new headlight stops from some sheet steel.

New stops being riveted into place

Always use a washer as back up on fiberglass/plastic items.

Pull out the air over hydraulic rivet gun.

Looks good.

Ready to drop back at the paint shop for prep and paint.

 

[Black_Sheep]

Is the honeycomb material for the nose aluminum or steel? I bought some aluminum with a hex pattern like that online, it was advertised as material for custom grille inserts. I formed it over a buck to make some one of a kind speaker grilles.

 

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Is the honeycomb material for the nose aluminum or steel? I bought some aluminum with a hex pattern like that online, it was advertised as material for custom grille inserts. I formed it over a buck to make some one of a kind speaker grilles.

Steel

 

[1 Wild R/T]

hexagon punched metal screen at DuckDuckGo

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What size are the hexagons..

 

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What size are the hexagons..

0.24" open hole width and 0.2" wide "bars". Forgot to measure screen thickness... will later.

 

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Toluene to remove the decal glue from the headlight doors. Soak a sock, lay it in place for a few minutes and then wipe.

Cleaned up nice, crack fixed on the back side and I'll let my body and paint man deal with the front side with compatible products to his primer and paint.

Said for years that I'd never restore this car... ffs. Scrubbing bubbles to clean up the wiring harness after a full examination of wires and terminals.

Soaking and then wiped down after a full inspection.

Re-wrapping the wiring with electrical tape.

Wiring harness ready for reinstallation.

Headlight door vacuum lines up next for clean up. Scrubbing bubbles and some green scotchbrite.

Details on the vacuum hose. Two groves on this side, one hump.

Same hose 180* rotation has 4 groves/three humps.

Vacuum hoses all cleaned up ready to reinstall.

 

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Purolator truck showed up with stuff from National Moparts. New door sill plates, trunk weather seal, some 1/4-20 captive washer nuts and a new radio antenna. Amazing that Nigel had stock on the antenna, as nobody else does as tried to order from Jamie at Megaparts and he "hoped" within a month...

Nuts dipped in Boeshield T9

Signal light housings and mounting brackets up next.

Not something you can even see, but time to clean this overspray off of them.

Coming apart.

3403097 drivers side housing.

3403096 passenger side housing. Most interesting thing is the stamping "font" is different on the two housings, yet the same mfg # stamp!

Both housings out of the mounting brackets.

Did the first one with Easy Off Oven cleaner and then the can clogged. Second with paint stripper.

As the layers disappeared in order it was neat to see that these assemblies were in the nose when it was originally painted in 1969. I'm just simply amazed at the like new condition of the wiring sockets.

 

[Photon440]

Purolator truck showed up with stuff from National Moparts. New door sill plates, trunk weather seal, some 1/4-20 captive washer nuts and a new radio antenna. Amazing that Nigel had stock on the antenna, as nobody else does as tried to order from Jamie at Megaparts and he "hoped" within a month...
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Nuts dipped in Boeshield T9
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Signal light housings and mounting brackets up next.
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Not something you can even see, but time to clean this overspray off of them.
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Coming apart.
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3403097 drivers side housing.
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3403096 passenger side housing. Most interesting thing is the stamping "font" is different on the two housings, yet the same mfg # stamp!
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Both housings out of the mounting brackets.
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Did the first one with Easy Off Oven cleaner and then the can clogged. Second with paint stripper.
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As the layers disappeared in order it was neat to see that these assemblies were in the nose when it was originally painted in 1969. I'm just simply amazed at the like new condition of the wiring sockets.
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On the railroad, we had more than one set of stamps in the tool room. Likely was the case here too.

 

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On the railroad, we had more than one set of stamps in the tool room. Likely was the case here too.

Yep. Just gave me a giggle considering how bent out of shape the "experts" get about correct stamping fonts when about anything can go.

 

[dadsbee]

Just what you want to find, clean bare metal!

Dan's been stripping and looking good so far. The car that is...

Started into the quarter and looking good. We know it will need a patch welded in down below the marker light like the other side did

I've wanted to dig into this lump for 33 years. It's always been there and never got worse. It's the factory seam lead that lifted from the old flux below.

Solid as a rock but will need to be melted out and fixed.

A long way to go, but we'll finally get the crooked Plymouth decal corrected!

 

[Photon440]

Just what you want to find, clean bare metal!
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Dan's been stripping and looking good so far. The car that is...
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Started into the quarter and looking good. We know it will need a patch welded in down below the marker light like the other side did
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I've wanted to dig into this lump for 33 years. It's always been there and never got worse. It's the factory seam lead that lifted from the old flux below.
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Solid as a rock but will need to be melted out and fixed.
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A long way to go, but we'll finally get the crooked Plymouth decal corrected!
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Did the lead seam lift, or had it never been properly shaped from the factory?