Edie: The Dart
Hi here is another weekly edition of Edie, thanks for the kudos everyone.
I kicked the week off with 2nd coating, and fixing boo-boo's on the fender and a-pillar sub assemblies and separated the pinch welds and rust converted the dash, about half the day.
The next half the day I took the drivers side door off, and taught myself how to peel the skin off, the door skin pliers I got off e-bay were a life saver.
Looking due for a rebuild.
Tuesday I felt like doing a little house keeping, taking out the trash turned into a half day ordeal cleaning out the trunk and organizing parts into my storage, taking the seats and lower seatbelts off, then taking off the back bumper and did a sweep now it's clean and happy.
For the next half of the day, I took the passenger side door off, then grabbed my replacement door, peeled the skin off and chiseled some undercoating off.
Wednsday wasn't spent on the dart, accept the last hour cleaning doing a little weight reduction on the driver side door. ;)
Thursday was 6 beautiful hours cutting off the 5 layers of paint and bondo 1/4 over the whole passenger side, after that, drivers was a snap!
Here is the paint and filler I was able to catch off flat surfaces...
Friday was dolly work, man that passenger side was rough... Someone just caved, and paved! I had to cut out the 1/2 deep bad spots out that they left with a hammer. The rest is gonna work, thankfully the cave that was around the door handle I was able to dolly out.
Thanks for the rust, filler..
I was able to get the majority of the panels smooth, a little touch up and patching and it will be good as new.
As a bonus, I learned a new way to work the hammer and dolly. I tap the spots with the square part of the hammer, move a circle with the dolly on the underside, and work in a line, works quickly, and unbelievably well.
Have a good one!
Hi here is another weekly edition of Edie, thanks for the kudos everyone.
I kicked the week off with 2nd coating, and fixing boo-boo's on the fender and a-pillar sub assemblies and separated the pinch welds and rust converted the dash, about half the day.
The next half the day I took the drivers side door off, and taught myself how to peel the skin off, the door skin pliers I got off e-bay were a life saver.
Looking due for a rebuild.
Tuesday I felt like doing a little house keeping, taking out the trash turned into a half day ordeal cleaning out the trunk and organizing parts into my storage, taking the seats and lower seatbelts off, then taking off the back bumper and did a sweep now it's clean and happy.
For the next half of the day, I took the passenger side door off, then grabbed my replacement door, peeled the skin off and chiseled some undercoating off.
Wednsday wasn't spent on the dart, accept the last hour cleaning doing a little weight reduction on the driver side door. ;)
Thursday was 6 beautiful hours cutting off the 5 layers of paint and bondo 1/4 over the whole passenger side, after that, drivers was a snap!
Here is the paint and filler I was able to catch off flat surfaces...
Friday was dolly work, man that passenger side was rough... Someone just caved, and paved! I had to cut out the 1/2 deep bad spots out that they left with a hammer. The rest is gonna work, thankfully the cave that was around the door handle I was able to dolly out.
Thanks for the rust, filler..
I was able to get the majority of the panels smooth, a little touch up and patching and it will be good as new.
As a bonus, I learned a new way to work the hammer and dolly. I tap the spots with the square part of the hammer, move a circle with the dolly on the underside, and work in a line, works quickly, and unbelievably well.
Have a good one!
