1966 Plymouth Fury 3

[hairnet]

string ones and mushrooms been used for motorcycles for years

i cheat and use tyre weld

been through 8-9 in 20 years - carry one you may not need one

theyre showing the fast and loud with the 55 chieftain ❤️

 

[PhilA]

More rust removal. Got a couple spots that are gonna be great fun to fix.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Yesterday started like this:

I decided to take a look at the "repair" to the left rear quarter, as from inside there was less of the original metal left.

I uncovered the seam where the new metal had been added. Very strange, right on the top of the swage, but looking inside showed the swage was still there underneath.

Couple of pounds of filler on the floor and the whole seam is available to view. Tack welded on.

Zip, clatter.

Cleaned up a little, you can see the original coachline of the car, albeit wavy. Much better. Worse, but better.

The whole back end of the car was filler as I worked my way up.

Really quite thick, too.

It continued, in geological looking strata.

That's as far as I got, ran out of time and my angle grinder was getting too hot to hold. 

Sprayed a bit of gloss on, and that shows the story of the panel.

Best I can come up with is someone put a ratchet strap all the way around the back too tightly and dented it all to hell.

That's going to be fun to bring back to shape. I'll carry on pulling the Bondo out before I start on that...

 

Phil

[sutty2006]

Holy crap that’s a lot of cag……. 

[eddyramrod]

Looks like what I found in my Cyprus A40!

[danthecapriman]

You’ll massively improve the cars gas mileage too if you keep grinding out all that plop! The thickness and sheer amount of filler must be adding an awful lot of weight!

It’s similar to what I found on my Capri, someone had replaced the rear arches way back whenever but instead of cutting the old ones off and seam welding new ones in they just cut the old rotten edges back then put the new arches over the top and tack welded them in place (lap jointed!) then plastered the rear quarters in filler to hide the joint. The thickness of the filler in places was incredible. How it didn’t just fall off under its own weight I don’t know!

Anyway, keep it up. It’ll be a great car once your done.

[PhilA]

So far I've pulled about 30 lbs from the back of the car- old metal, new metal, overlaid new metal; quite a lot of filler too as you say.

I'm going to offset that by installing sound deadening, however at least that weight serves a functional purpose.

 

Phil

[somewhatfoolish]

Not so much Plymouth Fury as Plymouth Pudding. 😁

[bunglebus]

I don't know if you're planning to upgrade, but flux core MiG isn't the easier thing to get nice welds with. Normal wire and argon or argon/co2 mix is much better, especially working indoors. The cored stuff is ok for welding bits of angle iron outside and that's about it

[AnthonyG]

This Plymouth’s going to be getting 30 mpg by the time you have finished all this filler removal! 

[PhilA]

Just wanted to practice with flux core to get back into the hang of it. Mostly because I don't have any gas right now and the thing cane with a reel of wire and I had another spool from my neighbor.

Had a go at getting the overall profile correct, with hammers.

At bodyshop rates that was about $70 of work to get to the point where it's just about ready for a light skim of filler to take up the dimples.

Phil

[Rod/b]

6 hours ago, PhilA said:

 

At bodyshop rates that was about $70 

Wow, you got a lot done in 15 minutes! 

[PhilA]

6 hours ago, Rod/b said:

Wow, you got a lot done in 15 minutes! 

Yup. They spent much more time troweling on the filler than they would have just hammering it straighter.

[PhilA]

28 degrees in the garage and the oppressive humidity from a thunderstorm starting to roll in. What better time to fire up a 1.5kW heat gun in an enclosed space and lean upside down with a scraper?

Got this far before sacking it off as a bad idea. I need a smaller blade to remove the tar in the crease, I can't get the right angle with this one.

Then, I can clean it up and the dolly will work better instead of being cushioned.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

Shhh

[PhilA]

14 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Shhh

V6. Not bad but they don't quite live up to the image. You going to be in the area?

[hairnet]

do you think theres a caveat in the t and cs

sporty only in a straight line...............

car hire is all over the place avis 360 for a smol car but the mid suv was 250

hertz not cheap either - pic is enterprise (wonder why i use them )

v6 transit 500

 

[hairnet]

Just now, PhilA said:

V6. Not bad but they don't quite live up to the image. You going to be in the area?

300hp in the v6?

thats enough spesh in the north in october

 

[PhilA]

Just now, hairnet said:

do you think theres a caveat in the t and cs

sporty only in a straight line...............

car hire is all over the place avis 360 for a smol car but the mid suv was 250

hertz not cheap either - pic is enterprise (wonder why i use them )

v6 transit 500

 

Actually no. Because it's got a fair bit of Mercedes underneath they handle remarkably well for how big they are.

As for 303hp.. it's a nice engine and it sounds good. Smooth, reliable. Just doesn't suit the car.

Drive down and you can take mine for a spin.

[hairnet]

3 minutes ago, PhilA said:

V6. Not bad but they don't quite live up to the image. You going to be in the area?

maybe - if i can get to LA without 400 transfers

depends if biden lets me in - all dependant on that

 

[hairnet]

fury run and drive by then??

will it be even more porple?

 

[PhilA]

10 minutes ago, hairnet said:

fury run and drive by then??

will it be even more porple?

 

No, that's a much longer term project.

Chieftain runs though!

[hairnet]

24 minutes ago, PhilA said:

No, that's a much longer term project.

Chieftain runs though!

❤️

[PhilA]

Ooh. What's happening here, then?

[hairnet]

*renault walks away looking over shoulder

*hears incredible hulk end music

*fade to trees

[captain_70s]

Majorly jealous of your shed. Even if the uprights for that lean-to look a bit... Ripe.

[PhilA]

1 hour ago, captain_70s said:

Majorly jealous of your shed. Even if the uprights for that lean-to look a bit... Ripe.

That's just cladding, non structural. They hide 3" steel tube that is the support for the roof.

Phil

[hairnet]

its not a catalina

does the boss approve

 

[PhilA]

52 minutes ago, hairnet said:

its not a catalina

does the boss approve

 

She's the one that suggested it.

[PhilA]

A hot half hour with hammers.

Overall profile is much closer to what it should be. Now comes the finesse to remove the wrinkles and waves.

Phil