72 TA : New Project

**KevinW** · #1 07-21-2009, 10:56 PM

I could not get local service (freehold) due to in-experienced techs. Toms River had some, but since it is far, they quoted me $175, ouch (that's more than the glass costs!).

He didn't leave you a card did he?

otherwise, I will go ahead with my orignal plan of doing it myself.

**njsteve** · #2 07-22-2009, 02:40 AM

If you can get it to their shop, they can do it there at 264 Route 202/31, Flemington 08882. The phone number I have is (908) 788-3222 but there's a ton of different prompts you have to press. It's hard to get the actual shop and not get the company headquarters. The guy I spoke with was "LJ".

**KevinW** · #3 07-22-2009, 04:26 PM

Thanks. I could only get the operator to call shops and I did not get to talk to to anyone in flemington. But it is not drivable yet (needs a windsheild

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Norwood · #4 07-23-2009, 03:00 AM

Steve, You are gonna need one of my latches to finish that BAD BOY off right.....

**njsteve** · #5 07-24-2009, 01:10 AM

I had my original redipped but they didn't disassemble it to do all the different parts, though. Your latch setup does look nice.

**njsteve** · #6 08-04-2009, 08:23 PM

Still waiting on the other sheetmetal...

Spent last night charging the a/c system with the R12 I have been saving all these years. My mechanic buddy has all the hoses, gauges and vacuum pump, which made it very easy. Blows nice and cold (50 degrees on a 90 degree day).

**njsteve** · #7 08-15-2009, 02:15 AM

Still waiting for more parts to get painted...

Started fine tuning some things:

I didn't like the factory fit of the driver's side rear marker light bezel. It seems like they made the bezel about 1/16" of an inch larger than the beveled opening it was designed to fit into. The passenger side fit OK but the driver's side actually sticks out and wouldn't seat properly against the lens assembly. It's not the body work/paint depth, it's actually the bezel that's too long.

I bought a couple extra bezels on ebay and found the same bent curvature in them from over-tightening that existed on my original piece.

So I ended up using one of the straightest bezels I could find and did a little hammer and anvil work to flatten it out. I then just ground the edges away and sanded till the bezel would inset properly into the beveled mounting area.

Here's the before:

And a close up of the edge that wouldn't inset properly:

And here is the extra bezel after grinding, sanding and filing. Fits nicely now. And the lens actually indexes properly into the two slots instead of sitting behind the bezel.

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