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wizard |
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Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+ Posts: 13049 Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Dieter, just checked on my car, there are mounted som generic square body shims, seems like 1"x1"; Drivers side - thickness roundabout 1mm Passenger side - thickness roundabout 2mm The washers are practically normal round big body washers. So you don't have to search for anything special, just fabricate what you need when it's time to mount the radiator yoke. The big round body washers should be avalable in some local hard ware shop in various sizes. | ||
di_ch_NY56 |
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | wizard - 2019-12-24 5:46 PM Dieter, just checked on my car, there are mounted some generic square body shims, seems like 1"x1"; Drivers side - thickness roundabout 1mm Passenger side - thickness roundabout 2mm The washers are practically normal round big body washers. So you don't have to search for anything special, just fabricate what you need when it's time to mount the radiator yoke. The big round body washers should be avalable in some local hard ware shop in various sizes. Hi Sven Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you, Ingegerd and the dogs Thank you very much for the time you spent for me. When I'm thinking about that issue, I came to the conclusion that the front end should be stable in its own. I think to fill the gaps with shims when the front end is mounted. Emil showed me that detail (yoke to subframe) on his 61 NY. On the 61 NY there is a rubber washer between the radiator yoke and the subframe. At the former white 300F convertible at Jans he used round steel washers with zinc coating (at least under the hex nut head, the only thing visible in the pictures of the restoration of that car). Happy Restoring! Dieter BTW: for the hood I found an original looking hood pad at epain (at least the shape). The painter is claiming with no support from the inner structure of the hood, the hood shell is very flexible and not stable enough to work on it(building up the color layers). But for that (hood shell stability) as well I purchased some rummer mats (3, 4, 5 mm thinkness) ways earlier. | ||
wizard |
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Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+ Posts: 13049 Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | And to you Dieter! Your note about the hood puzzles me somewhat Dieter - there are one cross beam and 4 corner beams on the under side of the hood. Normally, the hood is not unstable. That makes me think, has the hood been sand blasted? If so, it's very easy to get the sheet metal too hot which gives a "wiggly-woggly effect". The hood of the '59 New Yorker I owned back in the seventies had the body sand blasted by a guy who couldn't find his own ass with two hands and a flashlight. The result was that the hood could easily contain 5 liters of water - totally sunk down in the middle. I crimped up the hood back to shape with a MIG-welder with a soldering tip mounted and sponges of cold water. As for the mats you purchased Dieter, make sure that they are intended to be mounted vertical and hanging. There are two types of bitumen mats here; one for floor boards (will fall of the inner side of a door skin) and one for vertical use - much better glue. | ||
di_ch_NY56 |
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | Hi Sven Yes the hood has been sandblasted as well.... The painter has never ever seen a not sandblasted hood with no isolation mat nor the cardpaper slices under the traverse beam from one side to the other. Do you think, the farm smith guys destroyed the hood of my Letter? About the pads, the seller advertised glue is not within the parcel. I have to look for it separately. Happy Restoring! Dieter | ||
wizard |
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Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+ Posts: 13049 Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Just checked my hood Dieter; The two front corner beams does not have any air gap, theyr're in contact with the hood, no asphalt board The middle beam has roundabout 15mm gap in the middle and roundabout 5mm gap at the ends - thin asphalt board, but not in Contact with the hood. The rear corner beams has roundabout 15mm air gap, no asphalt board The beam closest th the cowl has 10mm gap in the middle, 5mm gap at the ends, no asphalt board. It's very likely that the hood "skin" has lost it's stability due to the sand blasting. It's VERY easy to do some damage with the wrong media and/or too long blasting at the same point. Also, it's impossible for me to imagine how stabile your hood is Dieter, I can only tell you that my hood is very stabile and does not "give" for pressing with a sponge or cloth in any point. Your hood is not destroyed, but it's a task to crimp it back again. My method worked for me back in the seventies. No welding wire in the welder A thick soldering tip (10-15mm diameter) mounted to the welding pistol with one or two hose clamps Test with low Amps first -10-20 Amps and "draw" circles in the weak areas Cool down immedeately with a wet sponge Naturally, the soldering tip will do some small "ditches", but that's easy to fix later. I'd recommend to test on a sheet metal with no value first for training. I bet that the shop body guy has his method for to fix it | ||
di_ch_NY56 |
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | Thank you very much for your instruction. I printed it out, like the first one. I'll take both print outs with me to the paint&body shop. The painter is performing all that work, his brother (the body guy) I didn't meet since about two weeks. From my memories the weak, wobbly area is where the flat surface is, closer to the cowl on the passenger side (with the convex bump in the middle). Happy Restoring! Dieter Edited by di_ch_NY56 2019-12-26 1:41 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | This morning I visited the shop again. What I found out is the tension is only weak and wobbly at the sunken down area near the passenger side cowl end. There could be seen three or four ropes (as a pattern) of extremly heavy sand blasting (cavitary like holes out of the surface). I showed the instruction to the painter. He knows that procedure (apparently used on modern cars as well to bring back the surface tension on repaired doors, hoods, hatch lids) as well and has a machine for that. He thinks, no problem, just do it. The video shows how it reacts. All other location the hood is as it should be. hood in motion The doors are removed now and ready to ship it to the sand blasting company early next year. The doors are looking really good! Happy Restoring! Dieter Edited by di_ch_NY56 2019-12-27 8:16 AM (IMG_6775_hood with weak area near the passenger side end.JPG) (IMG_6778_passenger side door.JPG) (IMG_6779_drivers side door.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_6775_hood with weak area near the passenger side end.JPG (406KB - 400 downloads) IMG_6778_passenger side door.JPG (460KB - 404 downloads) IMG_6779_drivers side door.JPG (331KB - 391 downloads) | ||
wizard |
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Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+ Posts: 13049 Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Yes Dieter the hood is damaged from too heavy sand blasting and lost the shape due to too much material. The hood must be shrinked back to normal state again. | ||
di_ch_NY56 |
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | A solution for the engine actually is in sight, even though it's not very urgent to get the engine. I don't know of how many of you, guys, are reminding that the cylinder head gasket blew between the cylinder #1 and the water channel next to it to the cylinder #3. How deep the damage on the block and cylinder head is, I have no clue. But for sure, there is a damage. On all pictures where the damage is visible, there is a rod circle. Happy Restoring! Dieter (IMG_2093 on top head gasket passenger side bottom head gasket drivers side.JPG) (IMG_2090 engine cylinder head passenger side.JPG) (IMG_2091 engine cylinder head drivers side.JPG) (IMG_2089 engine still installed passenger side cylinder bank.JPG) (IMG_2092 engine still installed drivers side cylinder bank.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_2093 on top head gasket passenger side bottom head gasket drivers side.JPG (451KB - 397 downloads) IMG_2090 engine cylinder head passenger side.JPG (271KB - 367 downloads) IMG_2091 engine cylinder head drivers side.JPG (361KB - 386 downloads) IMG_2089 engine still installed passenger side cylinder bank.JPG (375KB - 389 downloads) IMG_2092 engine still installed drivers side cylinder bank.JPG (359KB - 388 downloads) | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7400 Location: northern germany | This gotta be the 1rst natural aspirated Mopar Big Block ever that blew a head gasket. Very weird. | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | 1960fury - 2020-01-02 12:49 PM This gotta be the 1rst natural aspirated Mopar Big Block ever that blew a head gasket. Very weird. Happy New Year Sid Most probably you're right. Think about the life of my engine in my Letter prior to my ownership. It's a factory replaced engine, according the metal tag attached at the front of the drivers side cylinder bank. When I removed the intake runners there was just the gasket of the valley pan cover between. No RTV nothing else, neither a supplement intake gasket. With this scenario I really could imagine that the cylinder #1 got wrong air to the mixture. It's the only piston with a meltet top. All seven other piston were looking like new, from the top. Even at the cylinder walls honing marks were visible. I'm ways more than sure, that the owner prior to the seller to me (the guy noted in the title of my Letter) blew the engine heavily. The piston of the first cylinder had to be cutted into three pieces (!) to remove it. I could really imagine, that after the very last switch off of the engine after really heating the car the piston sized (melted to the cylinder wall). Furthermore, the very first pictures I put into my thread are showing a really heavy damage from water (rain, blizzard, thunderstorms). This guy lost interest in the Letter and was to lazy to close the hood. From the seller I know, that the Letter rested for seven years under a blue, woven plane (as the same plane - just green instead of blue - does, locally purchased) disintegrated. You don't believe where all this fibres were.... Happy Restoring! Dieter Edited by di_ch_NY56 2020-01-03 7:44 AM | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7400 Location: northern germany | Yes. Happy new year to you too and best of luck with your project. | ||
di_ch_NY56 |
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | Thanks Sid Here are two elder pictures of the crankshaft still installed in the engine and the connection rod bearing shells visible. At the top left position is the piston - conncetion rod assembly of cylinder #8. At the top right position the one out of cylinder #2 (order like installed) I think the crankshaft doesn't look that bad... Happy Restoring! Dieter (IMG_3604_crankshaft still in the engine block.JPG) (IMG_3605_all pistons I could remove.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_3604_crankshaft still in the engine block.JPG (366KB - 388 downloads) IMG_3605_all pistons I could remove.JPG (406KB - 397 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | This is the original thermostat housing, cleaned outside. It shows many rusting through spots. At the sheet I noted the parts number of the cylinder head and engine block. Both parts numbers I found at internet. Following is the year range or the engine size (cylinder heads). Happy Restoring! Dieter BTW: at the hood there are three sectors with no primer anymore. The owner of the body&painting shop will use his plotter to dig out the weak sectors to bring the tension back into the sheet metal. (IMG_6818_original thermostat housing front.JPG) (IMG_6819_original thermostat housing inside.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_6818_original thermostat housing front.JPG (272KB - 377 downloads) IMG_6819_original thermostat housing inside.JPG (268KB - 394 downloads) | ||
di_ch_NY56 |
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | This morning I visited the engine rebuilder in Switzerland again. The crankshaft is back home at him and looking good (as a passing mention from him about the crankshaft). I persisted to use the stock factory cylinder heads they came with my engine. This afternoon I sent a mail as a confirmation about our talk to the engine restorer where I underlined, that I want my crankshaft in the engine (and not the rotating assembly from Zurich out of a 413 eninge with a broken engine block (for about 2500.- local currency) - the engine rebuilder loud thought about that option as well, but elaborated, .060 pistons are speeking against - it's another engine rebuilder and a friend of my engine rebuilder). Happy Restoring! Dieter Edited by di_ch_NY56 2020-01-13 9:24 AM | ||
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Location: North Australia | Dieter, when I built my 60 Imperial engine, I had an issue with the rear side of the new cam sprocket hitting a bump in the casting of the engine block. May be worth letting your engine builder know to check. Pretty easy fix, I just machined the back of the sprocket for clearance. Steve. | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | 60 Imp - 2020-01-12 10:45 PM Dieter, when I built my 60 Imperial engine, I had an issue with the rear side of the new cam sprocket hitting a bump in the casting of the engine block. May be worth letting your engine builder know to check. Pretty easy fix, I just machined the back of the sprocket for clearance. Steve. Thanks Steve for your hint. Happy Restoring! Dieter | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | The passenger side of the hood got the tension back, very little correction of the hight the painter will do. The painter worked helically from the outside tho the center, with additional spots where necessary. The drivers side has a weak area as well. That will be the next. The older apprentice used a plastic wire brush to clean the primer off the hood. The grinding marks appeared. It's impossible to date these marks. The cold be there for a very long time, but there were absolutely no sand blasting marks appearing at the cleaned areas. But he has very little time to work on right now. I assisted him while disassembling a passenger side rear door of a 2019 BMW 5 series (last week I assisted with partial disassemblin and finally removing the drivers side door of a Merc Sprinter (4x4, Fedex). He said good bye to his brother - he had to left the company. So the painer is doing painting and body work with two apprentices. I removed all the upright mounted stems ontop of the side of the cowl (two stems on each side to mount the outer front fender near the windshield). These stems are brushed and looking almost like new. Happy Restoring! Dieter Edited by di_ch_NY56 2020-01-15 1:42 PM (IMG_6827_hood weak area almost in shape.JPG) (IMG_6828_somebody worked with an angle grinder.JPG) (IMG_6829_earth connection of the plotter.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_6827_hood weak area almost in shape.JPG (263KB - 368 downloads) IMG_6828_somebody worked with an angle grinder.JPG (470KB - 353 downloads) IMG_6829_earth connection of the plotter.JPG (253KB - 358 downloads) | ||
Powerflite |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9667 Location: So. Cal | Neat, how does that shrinker work? I assume it causes the entire flat to get hot, but what is the purpose of the center screw? | ||
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Expert Posts: 1730 Location: Michigan | WHOA.. hold the phone.. what is going on here.. what is that electrical wire connected to that thingy and what is it for? | ||
di_ch_NY56 |
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | As far as I concern, the ring is welded to the hood surface to get with the flat piece of soft iron a very good connection to the ground. The plotter machine works like welder, but no welding wire, but a big half ball at the lower end, a three dimensional frame and a thread with conter thread in the top plate to screw the ball (with threaded stem) back and forth. It sticks to the surface and then turn the spindle to lift it up. Switch off the current, break off the ball. At the picture you see the welding marks, easy to remove. Wizard did this with a welding pistol, but no wire in and pulling the pistol. Happy Restoring! Dieter | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 5006 | shrinking disc is a nice choice also... | ||
di_ch_NY56 |
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | Thanks The painter said, the current is much higher than anticipated. The spots will go with sand blasting. Of course he could use a torch and cool with water (sponge). But the second method (torch) needs at least half of a working day to fix the area in the hood. To fix the weak area (actually finished) at the passenger side he worked for about an hour. The second area ahead of the drivers seat (smaller than the area of the passenger side) needs to be done. Too many emergency cars came in (accidents to fix). Happy Restoring! Dieter BTW: the painter needs that plotter as well for contemporary cars to fix big dents (caused by an accident) in the sheet metal where the sheet metal is not replaced. Edited by di_ch_NY56 2020-01-18 10:14 AM (IMG_6837_earth mounting ring.JPG) (IMG_6836_plotter to dig out sheet metal.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_6837_earth mounting ring.JPG (331KB - 374 downloads) IMG_6836_plotter to dig out sheet metal.JPG (298KB - 391 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | Today I had a free day. So I visited Mehmet at the paint & body shop (CarPark) again. I carried more than enough 5/16" threaded stems with me to mount the fenders back to the body. A longer and a shorter one earlier I brought at home, wire brushed and used as templates for the lenght. During watching him preparing the parts and helping him deciding if 7G or Primer is the correct tone (of Tiefseeblau metallic) to paint parts on a 2013 BMW F20, Mehmet told me that all parts (front fenders, both doors, hood (finished)) are at the professional sand blaster now. Prospective: On Saturday Yunus is coming to fix the rear end definitively. Wihin two weeks we are getting back the front fenders, both doors and the hood. All parts actually at the sand blaster are coming back with primer (like the first batch, few pages back in my thread). The primer has a rest period of two weeks until the building process of the color structure could start. Happy Restoring! Dieter Edited by di_ch_NY56 2020-01-22 2:03 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | When the body is back home, prior to the summer holiday season locally, first I'm going to install the wiring harness (engine bay, dashbord, passenger room and tail harness). Sooner, or later, but for sure prior to the 2020 New Years Eve, I'll be ready to install the tar mats, the traditional (I do not want modern sound deadener) floor isolation and the carpet. My impression is, that the floor isolation and carpet are identical to the 2 door hard top New Yorker bundle. Except, that I have to cut out some square areas for the mounting of the center console. The 300 F heel pad was mounted ontop of the carper heel pad, when I removed the original heel pad and the carpet. The carpet was quite soft, with loops. What company (carpet/isolation mats) would you recommend? Happy Restoring! Dieter Edited by di_ch_NY56 2020-02-02 2:46 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | I visted the paint&body shop again for many hours on Saturday. First I helped the shop owner to elaborate the cause of the no oil temp and beep and blinking oil pressure light in a Golf 2 with a 16 valve G60 engine (very rare factory engine). Both wires where exchanged at the sensors.... At my Letter I opened all tabs at the inside (passenger side) roof rail tabs. I assume I need these tabs to install the headliner. Yunus was working on a Fedex Merc Sprinter to work out the roof end. Because he had to work overheads he got very tired. So the work on the body end has postponed to the next weekend. Because the trunk of my Letter was empty (no parts in it) I got angry again and took some pictures. When I removed the tar surface, the lines around the wheel wells were straight (with no bumps...). Mehmet the shop owner showed me the result of the sand blasting company (pictures on his phone). The fenders and and the hood are looking very nice now even though the hood has some rusting through spots - no grave. Happy Restoring! Dieter (IMG_6899_trunk inside wheel well junction drivers side.JPG) (IMG_6898_trunk inside wheel well junction passenger side.JPG) (IMG_6896_Merc Sprinter roof damage partially fixed.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_6899_trunk inside wheel well junction drivers side.JPG (445KB - 354 downloads) IMG_6898_trunk inside wheel well junction passenger side.JPG (415KB - 360 downloads) IMG_6896_Merc Sprinter roof damage partially fixed.JPG (51KB - 349 downloads) | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 5006 | wow dude... I feel your pain on the amount of work.. I guess this is why i do all my own work, even if it takes valuable time, i can't handle dealing with outside shops. I sent some of my stuff to sandblast. i told them to only do edges, never larger wide open spots, i use paint stripper for those area. Even when i had my doors done, i told them not to do the skins. Of course my sandblaster just burnt down so im hosed but im not doing any sandblasting for a while. https://twitter.com/TomLivingston5/status/1222705404045594625 | ||
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Regular Posts: 65 | My 61G blew a head gasket pretty early in life. The story I got was it was in a cannonball run and the guy started having problems and stopped and got a different car lol. The weird thing is, my car was delived to one of the plants in Detroit area. | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | Thanks for your answers. This morning I was at the paint&body shop once again (no work today thank to Sabrina on Greta Land - oh sorry, Europe). The parts from the sandblaster came back. The black color is marker color. Some minor rust spots appeared. Something to repair. The sandblaster was asking for the body to proceed. But next Saturday first the rear end has to be finished... Happy Restoring! Dieter (IMG_6911_front fenders sandblasted again.JPG) (IMG_6912_doors sandblasted again.JPG) (IMG_6913_hood sandblasted again 1.JPG) (IMG_6914_hood sandblasted again inside 2.JPG) (IMG_6916_hood sandblasted again another point of view 3.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_6911_front fenders sandblasted again.JPG (460KB - 363 downloads) IMG_6912_doors sandblasted again.JPG (444KB - 339 downloads) IMG_6913_hood sandblasted again 1.JPG (387KB - 355 downloads) IMG_6914_hood sandblasted again inside 2.JPG (483KB - 381 downloads) IMG_6916_hood sandblasted again another point of view 3.JPG (364KB - 353 downloads) | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7400 Location: northern germany | Since SANDblasting is unfortunately so popular, I always like to state following facts: Sandblasting weakens drastically parts by increasing the surface area/reducing its surface tension. Every parts will be measurably weaker and more prone to dents than before. Sandblasting non rusted body panels is a big, big mistake, especially for a unibody car. Same is of course true for suspension components. Edited by 1960fury 2020-02-11 8:16 AM | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | 1960fury - 2020-02-10 2:15 PM Since SANDblasting is unfortunately so popular, I always like to state following facts: Sandblasting weakens drastically parts by increasing the surface area/reducing its surface tension. Every parts will be measurably weaker and more prone to dents than before. Sandblasting non rusted body panels is a big, big mistake, especially for a unibody car. Same is of course true for suspension components. Yes.... Today I discussed with the boss of the body&painting shop. At the farmers smith shop my Letter was prior, they are at the wrong meaning that not really all rust has to be removed. Covered with a good layer of primer and the color layers would protect these spots from further developping. That's completely false (within about three years I would have rust bubbles everywhere). I was not aware of that, otherwise I wouldn't let them sandblast. The owner of that shop is a plastic bomber builder. The H of his daughter is coverd with thick layer of filler all around on several areas.... no wonder the daughter wouldn't show me her H (furthermore I hypothetically would recognise my set of body screws (all brushed to the state of new) on her H). The weakness of the hood was not caused by sandblasting, but working with the angle grinder with a fan leaf disc - that's ways more aggresive and heat building. The sheet metal on that era cars is that thick, that it's very difficult to deform sheet metal, not like on contemporary cars. Happy Restoring Dieter
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Elite Veteran Posts: 654 Location: Finland | My god Dieter , you must be incredibly patient! Since my nerves couldn`t take all that waiting and arranging I had to learn myself to do bodywork and paint 35 years ago. For me two-three years is maximum time to spend on a full restoration. I have to admit the paint jobs I do are not perfect...but good enough for me... Keep up the good work! | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | Last Saturday I visited the body&paint shop again. I decided to mount all the mouldings around the rear of my Letter (moulding complete) to check where some adjustment at the body has to be done. Happy Restoring! Dieter BTW: the drivers side moulding is mounted the first time since.... I don't know from how long. The long, longitutinal moulding needs some work at the rear. The rear is chewed due to an earlier collision. Edited by di_ch_NY56 2020-02-16 12:18 AM (IMG_6934_three quarts drivers side rear view with moulding mounted.JPG) (IMG_6936_three quarts passengers side rear view with moulding mounted.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_6934_three quarts drivers side rear view with moulding mounted.JPG (458KB - 351 downloads) IMG_6936_three quarts passengers side rear view with moulding mounted.JPG (399KB - 364 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | This morning I worked with the side and rear end mouldings. At the arrow shaped front end of the drivers side moulding, I removed the door opening dents from other car drivers (male&female). I mouted the rear mouldings with clips as well and removed all addhesive paper pieces. Mehmet helped me a little and showed me some of his experience to do the job. His comment: working together is far easier. The vin tag and the body tag will be removed to be stored in an envelope in the office of Mehmet. I told him, without these two tags, the car is worthless. My letter is full of red circles. In most of these circles there is a recession to dig out with the body plotter, even on the outside end of the passenger side fin. Guess these really small recessions were filled up with body filler during the production process. I was assisting him with press a fast on on the oil temp wire and gave him the advice to use heat shrink tube from the wire to almost the front of the fast on. It's his Golf gen 3 16V G60 race car. (IMG_6957_drivers side front end moulding.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_6957_drivers side front end moulding.JPG (320KB - 340 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | Today I partially cleaned the position-/direction light housing of the drivers side front. It was primarely very dirty, but apparently well protected from the environment influences. due to the headlight bezel and the front fender shape. In the back is the passenger side position-/directional light housing as a comparison as it looked quite similar. Happy Restoring! Dieter (IMG_6958_drivers side position light case partially cleaned.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_6958_drivers side position light case partially cleaned.JPG (416KB - 335 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | Free day today. I took the oportunity to visit the shop once again. Both front doors (the only ones, two door hardtop) are in work now for the color layer build up. It's getting good! Happy Restoring! Dieter BTW: the passenger side front door is the upper one in the first picture Edited by di_ch_NY56 2020-03-02 7:33 AM (IMG_6990_drivers side door.JPG) (IMG_6991_passenger side door.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_6990_drivers side door.JPG (440KB - 333 downloads) IMG_6991_passenger side door.JPG (479KB - 334 downloads) | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9667 Location: So. Cal | Nice job, that's going to look great. I think he got more filler on his face than on the door. | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | Powerflite - 2020-03-01 4:53 PM Nice job, that's going to look great. I think he got more filler on his face than on the door. :laugh: Hi Nathan The primer thickness is 200 micron, the filler thickness is marginal, just small imperfections on the door perimeter. With grinding down the filler, the primer will reach the normal thickness of about 100 micron (metric). Both apprentices were working on my doors. They are clever, compared both doors and where just one door had a small ditch or dent, they applied filler. The face of the apprentice I oversprayed to protect him, his a youth, below 20yo. Happy Restoring! Dieter Edited by di_ch_NY56 2020-03-02 12:31 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | Do to a free day (working on Saturday) I went to the shop. The doors are ready to build up the color layers. The preparation of the hood began this morning. Actually all of the shop are cleaning the heating ducts of the heater for the paint and burn in chamber. What a mess.... Happy Restoring! Dieter (IMG_7005_work on hood started.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_7005_work on hood started.JPG (368KB - 344 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | The biggest issue now is the drivers side rear corner, or almost the sole one. At the pictures you'll notice where the work is... waiting for Yunus Doors are covered and ready for the color layer prep, the hood is in work now. Happy Restoring! Dieter (IMG_7020 drivers side rear corner from the front.JPG) (IMG_7021 drviers side rear corner from the rear.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_7020 drivers side rear corner from the front.JPG (349KB - 332 downloads) IMG_7021 drviers side rear corner from the rear.JPG (374KB - 323 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | Today, even though I should stay at home (Corona), I went to the shop and luckily I met Yunus. Within a short time the rear end of the body of my Letter was in shape again - or almost. The vertical line up around the drivers side curve will be done until the next weekend. I promised to bring all the tail lamps (position lamp and back up lamp) next time I'll visit the shop My Letter is almost ready to go to the sandblast shop once again. Happy Restoring! Dieter BTW: the three parts at the bottom (shield), in the front (vertical reinforcement) and on the top of the radiator yoke are in work now. (IMG_7103_rear end almost finished.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_7103_rear end almost finished.JPG (453KB - 332 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | This week I could pick up the parcels from Quirey Quality Design Co. The content looks very promissing to get suberb seats in my Letter. Happy Restoring! Dieter (IMG_7115_Qirey Quality Design Co delivery.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_7115_Qirey Quality Design Co delivery.JPG (401KB - 323 downloads) | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 5006 | those are nice... wonder if Garys old stock? or if he is making new? | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | mikes2nd - 2020-03-28 5:54 PM those are nice... wonder if Garys old stock? or if he is making new? As far as I got out, Gary Goers did the sewing himself. The whole stock pile of Garys went to QQDC (the leather stock I assume as well). At the Gary Goers thread (vendor section) you'll see the whole story. QQDC hired a self employee sewing woman. This is the reason QQCD asked for a part paying prior to start working on the seat covers. Happy Restoring! Dieter | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | This morning I mounted the tail and back up lamps to see how they will fit. Just some minor adjustments are to do. But Yunus has to see it and he'll correct it. Happy Restoring! Dieter (IMG_7137_rear view with tail and back up lamps.JPG) Attachments ---------------- IMG_7137_rear view with tail and back up lamps.JPG (466KB - 320 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | This afternoon I went to the body and paint shop again. To my surprise I only detected the deck lid alone. The owner brough my Letter to the sand blasting company again. The professional sand blaster already did a slight primer removing blast on some areas. The result is ways worse than ever expected. The parcel shelf apparently was not sand blasted at the first shop, as the lower channel outside the rear glass rubber. The passenger side rear fender showed grave under rustings (rust not properly removed prior and laying water when raining at the first shop plus delayed primer application). My actual shop owner (highly professional with BMW certification) just told me, if I would leave my Letter with that prior Etokat primer, I would not have pleasure more than two to three years until bubbles under the color would rise like on Hiobs back everywhere. That's how the farmers smith (or even ways worse) works. Happy Restoring! Dieter BTW: even if I would win the Euro millions jackpot I never ever would buy a FL or any other car at the former shop (the chance by the way is ways smaller than a flees testi bag, but always bigger than zero as if I wouldn't participate) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | Almost Midnight yesteray I got a phone call from the boss of the body&paint shop. Since 4 pm the sand blaster (former professional car painter) was on duty on my Letter. For all who warned me about the second time sand blasting... the boss of the body&paint shop called about what they discovered. The body was not sand blasted but stripped down chemically. The lock smith shop washed, but not perfect. The sand blasting (acutally my Letter is coated with primer again) guy discovered surface rust where originally no surface rust was (prior to bring my Letter to there) present (e.g. roof shell, vertical surfaces). In other words they applied the primer over the rust. The sand blaster was working for another four hours this morning (total 12 hours). As the result... the body (until painted) will cost me more the USD 60k. Dieter Edited by di_ch_NY56 2020-04-19 3:56 AM | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | This midday I got a short note from my body&paint shop boss. My letter is back in his shop. The primer will cure for two weeks now. Happy Restoring! Dieter BTW: my impression is (from all parts I saw, sand blasted by the professional sand blaster) the sand is ways finer than that of the first shop. Edited by di_ch_NY56 2020-04-20 1:32 PM (ESLN2395_partial view trunk floor drivers side fender passenger side inner quarter panel.JPG) Attachments ---------------- ESLN2395_partial view trunk floor drivers side fender passenger side inner quarter panel.JPG (172KB - 321 downloads) | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9667 Location: So. Cal | That looks great! Should be the end of your troubles with the sandblasting. | ||
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Expert Posts: 1530 Location: ZH, Switzerland | thanks a lot Nathan | ||
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