My Duster Adventures
Well, today I made a step by step “to do” list, and I realized that I need to accomplish an average of two items completed per day in order to have the car done in time! :eek:
So tonight, I spent a few hours working on the car. First thing I did was pull the heater box to see about rebuilding it with the DMT kit I got last week. Upon removal, I discovered two spots on the box that were broken, so I cleaned the boxes up, sanded around the broken areas, and slapped some epoxy on it.
First spot was in the fresh air vent area.
Second spot was where the heater core tubes exit the box.
And here’s pics of both, after I epoxied them. I’ll be sanding and adding more epoxy inside and out on both spots.
I also pulled the heater controls and fed pb blaster into the control cables with a syringe and needle until it ran out the other end. I need to stop and get some cable/chain lube tomorrow and run that through yet as well before I reinstall them. The effort to move the heater slides has majorly improved! I REALLY had to push on the controls before.
After I was done messing with the heater stuff, I went out in the garage and started working on welding up extra holes in the floor pan. I learned 2 things: 1. if you’re filling in a hole with weld, take your time and let it cool between each tack or you’ll be welding that stupid thing in 3 or 4 times!! :BangHead: And 2. It may be easier to cut the bigger bolt holes out and weld in a patch piece! Anyway... I got the whole drivers side done other than one 2x2 patch I need to make and weld in, and one small bolt hole that I didn’t see until I was wrapping up to head into the house.
It’d be nice if the passenger side would go as quickly as the drivers side, but I’m gonna have to replace the front and rear foot pans on that side so I know it’ll take longer. At least it’s big pieces instead of little holes!
Well, that’s it for tonight. I’ll be home later tomorrow night but I’ll have to at least get something accomplished to stay on track!
Well, today I made a step by step “to do” list, and I realized that I need to accomplish an average of two items completed per day in order to have the car done in time! :eek:
So tonight, I spent a few hours working on the car. First thing I did was pull the heater box to see about rebuilding it with the DMT kit I got last week. Upon removal, I discovered two spots on the box that were broken, so I cleaned the boxes up, sanded around the broken areas, and slapped some epoxy on it.
First spot was in the fresh air vent area.
Second spot was where the heater core tubes exit the box.
And here’s pics of both, after I epoxied them. I’ll be sanding and adding more epoxy inside and out on both spots.
I also pulled the heater controls and fed pb blaster into the control cables with a syringe and needle until it ran out the other end. I need to stop and get some cable/chain lube tomorrow and run that through yet as well before I reinstall them. The effort to move the heater slides has majorly improved! I REALLY had to push on the controls before.
After I was done messing with the heater stuff, I went out in the garage and started working on welding up extra holes in the floor pan. I learned 2 things: 1. if you’re filling in a hole with weld, take your time and let it cool between each tack or you’ll be welding that stupid thing in 3 or 4 times!! :BangHead: And 2. It may be easier to cut the bigger bolt holes out and weld in a patch piece! Anyway... I got the whole drivers side done other than one 2x2 patch I need to make and weld in, and one small bolt hole that I didn’t see until I was wrapping up to head into the house.
It’d be nice if the passenger side would go as quickly as the drivers side, but I’m gonna have to replace the front and rear foot pans on that side so I know it’ll take longer. At least it’s big pieces instead of little holes!
Well, that’s it for tonight. I’ll be home later tomorrow night but I’ll have to at least get something accomplished to stay on track!
