1966 Plymouth Fury 3

[PhilA]

1 hour ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

autoshite approves a bent8 with a lumpy idle 👍

You can have one too!

 

Simply follow these simple steps:

Hog out two bores with a dingleball

Fill engine with water, leave for 6 months outside

Free engine up with brute force

Grind valves by eye

Reassemble and enjoy!

[hairnet]

Dingle a whaaaa?

[PhilA]

Decided to get back on doing stuff to the car. Least enjoyable- grinding. Emptied all the stuff out of the cabin.

Vacuumed all the trash out, leaves, dirt, bits of tarpaulin.

Decided I wanted to see what condition the rear floor is in.

Got this far with the grinder and it gave up the ghost. Put some paint on to protect the metal.

That's not too bad actually. 

Now I just need a new angle grinder.

 

[hairnet]

Grinder fault or car fault

[PhilA]

20 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Grinder fault or car fault

Grinder burned up.

[hairnet]

Grinder needs VTEC or 383

[PhilA]

Cleaning up ok. Couple pinholes and one place that would benefit from a patch but it's not too bad.

Phil

[PhilA]

Random small holes, begone

[PhilA]

Drivers side rear footwell was less bad than I thought it would be. 

Passenger side doesn't look as healthy.

[PhilA]

Started in on the corner closest to the camera there, and it disintegrated.

Patch. Needs another one across the ribs there too.

[PhilA]

It pissed it down with rain. 

Thus, it got washed out.

Quick and easy method of getting rid of all the grinding dust. Utilitarian.

[PhilA]

Rain ceased and everything dried out.

So, I cut a hole to remove thin and holed metal.

Started forming a replacement and it began to rain again. End of play for today.

[PhilA]

It's too hot for this today.

But that's the rear footwell done on the driver's side.

[hairnet]

I thought about it yesterday

Then it was ooh deli

 

[PhilA]

That's quite the journey.

[PhilA]

Cut the rust out.

Put new metal in.

 

Deja vu

[PhilA]

Had a bit of a poke about up front. Looks terrible, found bathroom sealant.

That always bodes well towards the skill of the previous repair artiste.

So, started on this lot. I thought I'd be going through most of it to thin air.

Turns out that's paint over dirt. Cleaned out, there are a few holes and a couple thin bits but that's less bad than I thought it would be. Need to unbolt the gas pedal off the floor next.

Also found where the scuttle is leaking.

[PhilA]

Scrubbed the paint back, found a couple small holes that turned into two patches. Patched a third hole.

Called it done for today, need to get some more paint.

[PhilA]

This side is a bit crusty. It's lost all shape due to the rust, so I made up a template based on the other side.

Fairly straightforward. I can get that cut out and welded in.

[PhilA]

That's that corner piece made.

[PhilA]

That'll go in there.

[PhilA]

Oh yeah. I also got a bit heavy handed with the grinder...

The frame is in good condition, luckily.

[PhilA]

Made the flat cross section, with strengthening ribs and welded it in.

Looking at how to move on with the rest, and still get it mostly right. It's going to end up patchwork.

[PhilA]

Tried to put in a bit of time on the car after work.

Cut the flat section where the seat bolts down; just as I finished it started hoying it down with rain.

Rushed to unplug and bring everything in. Heavy rain!

Ten minutes later it's stopped but everything's too wet to continue. I went to the hardware store instead and bought some more cutting discs.

 

More tomorrow if the weather allows.

[PhilA]

Seam welded that in. Ran out of daylight.

[PhilA]

Old.

 

New.

 

Getting there slowly. Looks better, significantly less air in the floor now.

[PhilA]

Hot outside today so I decided on a bit of indoor arts and crafts.

Contractor at work had accidentally broken a ceiling light so I trash picked a section of the lens and made diffusers for the turn signals.

That's pretty much what I was aiming for initially so I'm happy. Looks good.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

would they have amber or white as stock?

was gonna make a .38 joke about the water but wont

 

[PhilA]

56 minutes ago, hairnet said:

would they have amber or white as stock?

was gonna make a .38 joke about the water but wont

 

White, amber came in '74 as regulatory color for turn signals.

[PhilA]

Got as far as cutting out a slice of floor and it started to rain.

Phil