Pita indeed. I ended up doing the "scab weld a bunch of washers inside and press it out with the weld breaking a few times because I'm a crappy welder" method.
lol. I tried that first but feared that it might fuse the shell for good if I got too aggressive with the heat. I set for A 1.5 and all my slag buggers just ripped out! Went with the fold over the lip and push hard method. Sucked! Only one black finger thoughPita indeed. I ended up doing the "scab weld a bunch of washers inside and press it out with the weld breaking a few times because I'm a crappy welder" method.
I got a pair of RMS adjustable ones back in 2017 to replace a bent strut.Yeah those Delrin bushings are like a rock hard like plastic. You get adjustable strut rods too?
Yikes! I’m scheduled for an alignment on the 12th. Hope I can get it settled before that.After I had my torsion bars out for over a year once back together I had to keep adjusting torsion bars because front end kept sagging. After 6-8 weeks or so it finally stopped sagging.
Yeah mine sagged all the way down to bumps stops a few times, usually after I drove it. It never sagged just sitting in garage. You can set height you want, get it aligned, and then adjust torsion bars to keep that same height as needed.Yikes! I’m scheduled for an alignment on the 12th. Hope I can get it settled before that.
I attempted to get my head around the indexing idea but i couldn’t find much guidance on it in the FSM.
Did yours relax onto the bump stops?
I thought that place looked familiar. Lunch. July 24th, 2017.Drove down to the Columbia this morning. Lots of twisting mountain roads and MC’Ds for a pit stop in Raymond. I learned that there is a small cruise in there every Thursday at 1. Strange coincidence. We had parked right in their spot as folks were just showing up… had to run home to pick my son up from school however and promised to return sometime…View attachment 1716408516View attachment 1716408517View attachment 1716408518
You chose a way better day!
That is how I have it now but my breather cap still gets some oil up in the sponge sometimes. ?it should be connected to manifold vacuum
I have that same unit
….yep! So the windshield is still fine but I didn’t treat the trim properly AT ALL! This was 2018 and I did some stuff to make the trim hang on then. I was cleaning the car up for the local car show this month and noticed the trim was peeling off at the top. I had to excavate the trim from a combination of dried butyl, bondo, and gorilla glue!View attachment 1716103837
I have a feeling the clip retaining tool will get used again someday…a must have for that windshield trim btw
….yep! So the windshield is still fine but I didn’t treat the trim properly AT ALL! This was 2018 and I did some stuff to make the trim hang on then. I was cleaning the car up for the local car show this month and noticed the trim was peeling off at the top. I had to excavate the trim from a combination of dried butyl, bondo, and gorilla glue!
The primary problem was that some of the holes for my clips were too big. no screw that was large enough, had a head that would work with such limited space (between the clip and the trim). So I used bondo on them. There was a second problem that I didn’t know about or noticed that prevented the trim from laying down properly. So I attempted to glue it down and filled the gaps with the butyl stuff…. Back on the road I went.
It really looked ok actually. Until it didn’t.
So I dug around this weekend and found this little gold nugget of information:
68/9 barracuda windshield stainless clips
and the lights go on! All of my clips were different and in the wrong locations. I can barely remove the screws with the window in there but the worst are the tall clips on the top trim. they came out ok. Cleaned up the glue mess and made sure to use the shorter clips up there. Now I had to drill a couple new holes in not original locations and fill those oversized ones up. The trim lays down way better now. View attachment 1716427392