Not A Duster's Most Excellent Progress

Last 3 weeks have been stupid busy at work...12 - 16 hour days with no days off - leaving me little in the way of personal time. But still managed to make a little headway....

Many hours of scraping, one coat of Por 15, 1 coat of tie coat primer and one coat of black rockerguard and the underside looks like this:
 
I'm going to finish the underside with a coat of semi-gloss black paint & call it good.

I'm out of town doing a couple concerts this week, so we won't get much done until the week after....

The springs are all assembled & ready:

...BTW....neither POR15 or rockerguard comes out of your hair....
 
Por 15 in hair! :eek: Yep, if you don't get that stuff off before it sets, it's trim it of time, amazing how I can be careful & stay free of it when applying(well most of the time) then I got to look at something or do a little touch up & splat it's all over me! :doh:
Progress is lookin good, whats this underguard stuff? Rich.
 
RC:

Rockerguard is basically paintable undercoating. Puts a textured finish on & protects against stonechips.

I applied it in the wheel-whells and anywhere else I thought rocks might get chucked under there...

I was going to go without any kind of undercoatig, but I've been told the sound of even small stones rattling against the underside of the inner fenders & rear wheelwells can drive a guy nuts without it.
 
Not A Duster said:
I've been told the sound of even small stones rattling against the underside of the inner fenders & rear wheelwells can drive a guy nuts without it.
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True indeed nodda, will you be adding any extra sound dampening items such as Dynamat or similiar product to the interior? A friend used Dynomat on his last 2 Mopar resto's and says he won't build a car without it, makes for a much more pleasant ride.
 
Dunno beeper...depends on how the budget shakes out I guess. The Demon had little in the way of sound deadener under the vinyl floor-mat. The old Dart Sport is supplying the carpet that's going in. It had some thick rubber mats under it...not sure if that's factory or not, but they sure are heavy. I can't find any reference to that stuff in my manuals.
 
Thanks for the link - I can get similar products to that from the Pro-Audio company we deal with at work, but that looks a little different.

It's definately on the list of "stuff I gotta get."

....Hafta see how my budget hangs in first....
 
Not A Duster said:
Yup. And monster big cop brakes.

It's a original A body housing with C-body 4.5" bolt pattern axles that the Doc sent to Moser to get cut/resplined.
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I installed one just like that in a neon in North Dakota once.:toot:
 
Spent the day today screwing around with gas tanks. The one from the Demon looks real nice outside, but has a lot of flaky rust inside. The one from the Dart Sport is pretty clean inside but has been badly crushed (like most anything else underneath the car) making it virtually unusable.

I'm going to take the Demon tank in to be boiled out tommorow & hope for the best. I really don't have the cake for a $300.00 gas tank. Might try some of that "safest rust remover" stuff on it as well.

Once it's deemed "all good" It'll get painted & installed, completing the rear underside of the car.
 
Next up:

Four-speed.



I think.


I've been waffling back n' forth between an auto & the four speed since I took the car apart. Truth is - I really enjoyed driving the car in traffic with the auto....but on the open road the stick is more fun. Right now I'm in 4 spd. mode. So I have the tranny from the Dart Sport sitting on the bench so I can clean it & check it over.

Almost bought a "parts" Four speed for next to nothing... but it showed what looked like a build date of 1975 on the cover plate...I don't know how to tell a standard 4speed from the later overdrive units, so I passed. Thing looked like it had sat outside for decades & I can't waste even $50.00 if I want to finish my car.

....besides, unknown guys who bring parts to you in the back of a pickup truck make me wonder where the parts came from....:shifty:

Anyway - here's mine, waiting for attention. It will likely be the next thing installed:
 
I used the por-15 gas tank sealer kit for the flaky insides of the 66 Newports tank, worked great and that thing was nasty.:sick:

That stuff will also seal any minor pinholes and leaves a ceramic like finish thats tough as nails. It's kind of a labor intensive process but wayyy cheaper than a new tank, and it won't rust again.
 
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