After a 6AM start to do some outside work "Work" = paid employment :-)
Decided at midday that 42 C was too hot to work out in the sun and returned home to consume refreshing beverages, feed the man something and chill.
Into shed but no acetylene until next week so started pulling the doors apart 1 door about 2 hours and an induction into the secret handshake club of door disassemblers and window glass replacement experts.
rest assured that you MUST dismantle in the correct order as you cannot get parts out unless the required other parts are first removed.
The reverse applies in that you must first insert the moveable glass,,,,, before attaching window channel and winder mechanism. Otherwise you must re-remove the previously inserted items, place the glass in the bottom of the door, re-re-reinstall the guide channel.
To remove the front channel and the quarter window you first open the quarter window, lift the assembly rearwards and upwards slightly, close the quarter window and now you can extract the assembly while ensuring the correct clockwise rotation at the end to get the bottom mount bracket out without damaging the paint finish.
That was 2 hours to get it apart, bearing in mind that I am going to repaint the door and fit all new bailey channel, and other soft door furnishings. So four doors is 8 hours, double that to very carefully reassemble it with new soft bits. Gives a total of 24 hours labour just to pull the doors apart and reassemble them. No allowance yet for time to clean them up, sand them back, fix any dings, defects, rust and such like Then to respray them with a mile deep gloss finish. probably another 24 hours.
At a cheap $50 an hour there is $2400 and we still haven't factored in the bailey channel, the outer and inner rubbers, the draught excluder seal around the door and repairs/replacement to the inner door trim.
Hence my posts on social media about those who think the rusty wreck in their yard is worth $30K because they see totally restored ones selling for that. The $30K restored job was probably sold at a total loss, less than half what it took to get it looking so good.
Just as well I am "just in it for LOVE". Doing this because it is enjoyment, not as a JOB.
Us old blokes need something that is a challenge to keep our minds alive......
still doesn't help when I am looking for that 1/4 Whit spanner I had a few moments ago :-)
Enough silly chat here are today's random pictures:
Clever little box of agitated electrons naturally brings the last picture up first.
This is blindingly obvious.... after going back out and looking at the the car :-)
Just to remind me that the flat blade screw is for the wind down window bottom stop bracket.
A picture tells a thousand words but sometimes you have no idea what it is talking about. I cleverly am putting all the bits associated with each door in an old Yoghurt container. My household empties about three of these every week ( That is about 150 every year) and they are just the right size for random bits I want to keep together. So I have an inexhaustible supply going green and recycling :-)
This picture shows the plastic extrusion under the door (and window winder) handles
It can be seen that a larger piece was once used for this purpose. Note to self to research what should be here , not what the DPO used when he reassembled it.
First of a series of pictures around the rear seating space, Looking at installing modern seat belts with a top mounting and perhaps a flow through ventilation outlet duct in this space.
The existing original optional accessory rear seat belts, lap only for three rear seat passengers of smaller sizes. Are modern human bodies larger??? I think I could only fit two 2022 bodies in this space.
My new front inertia reel installation drivers side
The centre mounts for the modern seat belts, attached to a custom bracket that bolts the original floor mountings.
I suspect these were an aftermarket addition in a 1966 model as the left and right sides are located differently
Accelerator pedal, need to remove but the unidentifiable whatever that attached it to the floor has rusted up solid. Pedal looks quite serviceable
Factory original body paint revealed after removing the little cover panels. No wonder they rust!!!
This area will all be painted body colour before reinstalling the cover bits (also painted body colour)
As my father in law said..."Do a little every day and pretty soon it will be finished. He built several very nice boats by doing a little every day after work, before cracking a beer . :-)
Gone back and corrected auto correct corrections and my own bad English
