Re: Next Years Power Tour Car
 

While waiting for the car to get into Pulera's, I decided to get spme paint stripper and continue on.....Got the door jamb areas paint free......No Rust...

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Also got more of the dash taken apart.....

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Re: Next Years Power Tour Car
 

I also took the fenders (old and new) down to the shop today...... the NOS fender and the new old fender needed some trim holes put in.......Trying to figure out how to position them correctly from the Factory Assembly manual is quite the project.......I'm sure it makes sense to someone....LOL....Heres the page from the manual with the Dim's.....

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So............How to do this and get all the seperate letters to be in the right place.......I took the old fender and measured where the first and last holes were relative to the crease and door side opening......

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And.....Since I was going to trash the fenders anyway.....I got the Plasma Cutter out.....and got down to bare metal.......The layers of paint were just like reading tree rings

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Cut the pattern out of the old fender.....

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Measured and drilled one of the holes in the new fender.....It just so happened that the holes size allowed me to screw in a 8-32 screw.....tighten up the one screw.....positioned the other hole, drilled it thru and added the second screw......now I had a drill jig for drilling the other holes in position and to the correct size

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Look how thick the "ORIGINAL Survivor" paint is on the old fender.....LOL

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Re: Next Years Power Tour Car
 

The other fender is a used Rust free Caprice fender.....so.....We had to weld up the Caprice emblem holes and drill the Impala holes....

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Re: Next Years Power Tour Car
 

The "OLD" fenders are now in Nu Yawk Fender Heaven......(same as Goldfish Heaven).......LOL

Re: Next Years Power Tour Car
 

four coats of non-factory paint and primer. Looks like it was holding the emblems on.

Re: Next Years Power Tour Car
 

Good stuff Ken!

Re: Next Years Power Tour Car
 

I ordered a new set of Body mounts and want to change them before the car go's to Pulera's......Started loosening the old bolts but needed to soak them in some penetrating oil....so in the mean time I pulled the fuel tank down.....bottom of the trunk floor looked pretty good....



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Then I continued with the paint stripper around the trunk are......Boring!!

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Re: Next Years Power Tour Car
 

Great stuff [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

Dan

Re: Next Years Power Tour Car
 

Changing the Body mounts.........Its like should I let the sleeping Dog lie......or should I kick it......LOL....I decided to Kick it and I'm glad I did........I started by removing the front ones first and they were rusted away so bad they just snapped off......



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Did one side at a time with some wood and a jack....


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Glad I changed them out.........What a &quot;Pile&quot;


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Ken

Re: Next Years Power Tour Car
 

Man that pile of rusty bolts looks all too familiar [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/eek.gif[/img]

Can't wait to see this one done, it's gonn'a be b!tchin'! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]