Rusty's not very quiet cuda progress

68R/T said:
As for the window....it's like I keep reminding Jr., "If you don't take time to do it right, will you have time to do it again?"
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Kids and customers. You can tell them that until you're blue in the face, but they won't learn it until experience kicks 'em in the ass. Of course, with kids you can say "I told you so!" whereas with customers it's a bad business decision to do the same. :D

You'll nail it, Rusty. You have more perseverance towards this stuff than anyone I've yet experienced.
 
Ok bit the bullet & went out there today, got the jb weld on the heater box & will drill it out hopefully tommorrow & see if it's thick enough.
Proceded to mess with the window couple more hours wasted, it's a little closer but still way off, the in & out adjustment is burried all the way & the top of the window still hangs out, read the book at least twice, tweeked a few of the other adjustments, think thats what got me a little closer, noticed my rear up stop was barely touching the bracket, if you roll up hard it would pop past it, bent it out a little now it hits a little better but I think it's too high(not stopping soon enough & the window is twisting(up/down/front to back) wondering if something in the crank mechinism could be off or loose to cause it to move too & fro?
In need of an experts assistance here ,Rich.
 
So friday I was out back blowing some leaves around, not much work going on so i decided to take the 'Cuda out for a spin around the hood, ins to be dropped soon to save a few bucks. Anyway was still early & very nice outside when i got back I decided to mess with the window again.
Since the last time I messed with it everything seemed really tight, now it's making a deep groaning sound towards the rear , front looks like it's hiting the track when it's all the way down, go in & get the white greese & start spraying it all over the place(litterally, what a mess)anyway somethin just aint right!
In looking deeper (& even that wasn't easy) big head, big hands & very little space! Crap, it looks like the rear guide is outside the track, remove bottom bolt, pull track foward & she popped back in, reset the adjustments & it was much closer, now the rear upstop is actually making good contact, adjusted both front & rear upstops again & dropped the middle track bar down a bit & she's real close. Probablay as close as it was when me & greg 340 messed with em for hours! Good a f-in nough! Put the door panel back on & called it a good day! Oh yea, went over every bolt to make sure they were all tight this time! :naughty:
Tommorrow maybe the last ride of the year, I'll decide on the ins during the week, is it worth it for a couple more drives around the hood, need a co pilot so I can really get her out on the road for a long HARD road test! Rich.
 
:doubt: Progress, she's done(well cept for a few repaint issues) She's been in insurance limbo all year,comp only. With the leaking gas tank & tight money she just gets started up every few weeks, still running good,Tanks pretty close to empty now so I'm waiting for the cooler weather then me & Don are gonna set up a get together & change the tank & maybe start stripping the hood? Tank out of the 74 has been cleaned up, sealed inside & painted, ready to go in. But I don't think I'm gonna put the ins. on this year.
If things don't get better she may hit the for sale market next spring! Then again she may anyway, gotta get some seed cash to get moving on the 74!
So hows cali,looks like your having some fun on face book! Oh yea, next time you come back here you better at least call & tell me you have no time to hang out! :( Rich.
 
Wow almost a year, how the hell are you guys? :) Gas tank did get in, never did put the liability back on, c piller is back in prime & one rust spot on the rear deck below back window, that I thought I had gotten it all, hood is still not stripped & I've actually been busy at work & haven't even started it up for weeks, keep telling my son gotta get my lazy ass out there, but dread lookin at that prime!!!!!!!!!!! :( maybe in the fall I'll get to the hood, gonna try & get some painting help, make it look decent & then put her up for sale, the way I've been movin on it lately might be years, but it's the only way I'll ever get to the 74. :doubt: greetings, Rich.
 
Maybe just after, when it cools down a bit, hood has to be in prime before the day is over, need a full cool day so no old men like me runnin out of gas before it's done! I've been saving it for us, our annual get together & mess with the car thingie! Rich.
 
So I figured I'd spend a little cuda time, put in a few gallons of gas, started her up to charge the battery, started on second try(not bad after sittin a while) & then walked around front & saw this............ :( Someday I'll catch a break :rolleyes:
 
That module shouldn't generate that much heat on the back. The only explanation would be that it must be a low-quality Chinese made unit.

Throw it away and get one of the first three from Rock Auto shown here;

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I see that quite a bit down here. Almost every module and voltage regulator is melted down, guess it's just the heat. Up north though, must be a cheap part.
 
Yeah, what the old man said... I'll look thru my stash and see what I might have laying around.
BTW, Happy Birthday!
 
thanks guys, gotta get back to work on it, found more rust bubbles down on one of the rockers where I did a lot of welding, I think to sell it(to get money to do the other one) I'm gonna have to take most of it back to metal to remove the por 15 I put on the panels, might have to get fenders, so the hole will get a lot deeper, but now it's pretty much worthless with my crappy paint work( or prep for paint work) just need a shot of ambition to get moving cool weather is here so I should be out of excuses. Don, gotta call you soon, where running out of weekends, gotta check with the wife, but next weekend might be good for me, what have you got planned? Rich.
 
Just a thought, Rusty... if you put the POR-15 over nice, clean, new-looking metal, your bubbles may be the POR lifting from the metal. The metal has to be scuffed for that stuff to stick. A couple of heat cycles, and anywhere that wasn't scuffed will bubble and eventually flake. It happened on my LeBaron.
 
The ones I opened up were a mixed bag, C pillar por 15 was on good & paint bubbled, behind the rear window, definite little rust hole, on the fenders it's creeping up from the double metal that rusted by the bolt downs, hood I'm not sure yet & the rocker I didn't pop em to see yet, but if there smooth it's paint coming off the por, if it's rough usually means rust. Gotta look in my spare parts, might have that control, worst case is ravage the 74 little more & "borrow" that one.Just a tad depressing to see all this, I thought I really worked hard on the rust to avoid this. Might go out this afternoon & pop the 2 on the rocker to see whats under there?????????????????? :doh:
 
When I went back and redid the rust-preventative paint, I scuffed the metal well. However, the paint had to sit a few days in a couple of places; in that case I scuffed the POR very well prior to using self-etching primer and finally the color and clear. The next time I attempt such a project, there will be no rust-preventative paint used on the outside of the car--meaning the visible body. I don't trust the stuff as primer, despite the claims and my success with it in the inner fender areas of the LeBaron.
 
Yep, I was already at that point, when I redid the trunk lid, epoxy primer as my metal sealer, the doors were last, so they also only got por15 on the inside & a coat of epoxy as my base on the skins. Think if I ever get to the other car it's gonna be eastwood products that get a try, & only underneath. I have a gallon of "Rust defender" primer I got from Mark(charger man) the body guy(that last one that did the REAL metal work) swore by it, right on the bare metal a few coats & start blockin, we will see I'm going to try it on the 73 first starting with the hood, again if I ever get off my butt & get back to work on it!
 
K so here's some of the major issues that are popping up, first the rocker, definatly rust, popped it open earlier............ the c pillar the por was good paint lifted, but trying to get the por 15 to feather ended up going way further than the bubble area the hood I think is paint lifting off por, but have not popped it open yet center one showed up first, quite a while ago, the one by the scoop maybe 2 years ago its cracked by the arrow & lifted above the yellow line and as you can see this is a rust hole, there was a little rust color going down the seam. the fenders are a couple of small bubbles coming up on top from the double metal bolt downs that showed up first ,not long after the paint job, maybe a year or so, now it's creeping up, no pics of those for now.
 
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