Jules n Ru's 66 Coronet

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Mon Jan 30, 12 10:33 pm

Another good couple of days on the '66 this weekend.

Started to reassemble the dash. Switchgear is all in now.

Heater is back in as are the dash vents.

Cables connected to the heater sliders, but didn't manage to get any tubing for the vents to the heater til the sunday, so cracked on with some other stuff.

New coil fitted along with some wiring sorted out.

Had a visit Saturday morning from Vince (member on here) who owns a SWEEEET 69 A12 Superbee who's also bought a '66 as a project, so a few hours was spent chewing the Mopar fat amongst a coffee and bacon sandwich or two

Also made a start on the rear window mechanisms as these are seized solid (just like the fronts were)

Stripped the complete mechanism out on the drivers side and tore it down.
Drilled out the rivets to get to the gear and spring thats hidden behind the cover where your window winder connects too.
(This is what we had to do with the fronts so knew where the problem was)
The spring inside had rusted completely in it's seat.
A good clean up, grease up and reassemble sorted 1 side out at least

We'll refit it next weekend and strip out the otherside.

Also had to de-seize all the rollers too.
That's abit of a nightmare as they're nylon/plastic, and too much pressure will just crack/brake them so abit of TLC is needed when it comes to these.
A good overnight soak in a tray of the old WD usually does the trick

R.RUNNER · Post by **R.RUNNER** » Tue Jan 31, 12 3:07 pm

Jules wrote: and bacon sandwich or two :

I never get offered a bacon sandwich

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Tue Jan 31, 12 4:20 pm

Jules and Ru

Is Ru rupert with the sport fury? out along M3 A3 land

if so hello

tis dave

you looked after my valiant manual for a few months after me and Mr H forgot it.

Dave

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Tue Jan 31, 12 4:37 pm

R.RUNNER wrote:
Jules wrote: and bacon sandwich or two :

I never get offered a bacon sandwich

Me neither.

Good work Jules, keep it up.

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Tue Jan 31, 12 6:04 pm

Derek wrote:
R.RUNNER wrote:
Jules wrote: and bacon sandwich or two :

I never get offered a bacon sandwich

Me neither. Good work Jules, keep it up.

You guys need to blame the Mrs. for that 1. She decided she wanted a fry up that morning

Naturally I never complained

Yes Dave, tis Rupert the book keeper.
Will pass on your regards mate

sinny · Post by **sinny** » Tue Jan 31, 12 9:20 pm

Lookin' good Jules.

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Wed Feb 01, 12 1:15 am

Good work Jules. You're giving Anton a run for his money these days, on the work-rate front

Dunno where you guys find the time

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Wed Feb 29, 12 11:51 pm

Next job .... Steering wheel

Along with the dash, our steering wheel was also in need of abit of TLC. It had definitely seen better days by the time we got our hands on the car.

We found out the best way to repair cracks in a wheel was to use an epoxy putty, so thats what was used.

After a real good clean up and de-grease we set about the repair.
Incase you were wondering......this stuff is real easy to mix, use and sand down!

The stuff we used came in a pack containing 2 lengths of putty (like kiddies plastercine).
You just cut off equal amounts of the stuff and mix together until a uniform colour, then away you go

The pack says that it's hard enough to rub down after a few hours (optimum temperature) but due to the poor weather we had at the time,
we thought it best just to leave overnight.

After a good rub down and clean up, I took it to a professional body shop to be painted

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Wed Feb 29, 12 11:54 pm

Seeing as a steering wheel is (slightly) flexible, the correct primer for the job is needed (one with plastercisers in the mix - I hope I've got the right name)
otherwise the paint can flake off after a while. This is the reason why we had this particular item professionally redone.

The bodyshop took care of any small imperfections for us that we missed, then primed, painted and laquered it. 2 pak laquer I believe was used, so very strong and durable

It looks the Mutz Nutz and it finishes off the dash a real treat

Philb · Post by **Philb** » Thu Mar 01, 12 7:16 am

Coming on great Jules

That dash and wheel have come up like new. Must drop in and have a look

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Thu Mar 01, 12 8:20 am

Pop by anytime Phil

Kettle's always on mate

ANTON · Post by **ANTON** » Thu Mar 01, 12 8:31 am

That is really good fix Jules and it is looking very good.

sinny · Post by **sinny** » Thu Mar 01, 12 8:34 am

That wheel looks great nice one!

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Thu Mar 01, 12 9:42 am

Fantastic! I did the wheel on my Road Runner using a flexible filler, together with a plasticised primer and it came out a treat...brilliant work Jules!

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Sun Mar 04, 12 5:01 pm

Oi Buster!!!!
Don't get in a fluster!!!!
Add some lustre to ya cluster!!!

1 of the jobs at the weekend was to send the wives out shopping so we could carry on with the Coronet

Then, it was time to head for the workshop and clean up the rear lens clusters which obviously involved alot of patience and a tremendous amount of skill to carefully dismantle said items ready for refurb

(actually we did have to tread carefully coz the chrome trim is riveted to the reflector part of the lens which we didn't know about

)

As we dismantled the components, half of the californian desert that had accrued over the years in the clusters fell out onto the work bench

so my garden is now another 2" higher than before

After dismantlification we carefully cleaned all the components ready for polish and paint where necessary

We repainted the inside of the light housing with some chrome paint as it had gone abit flat and also re black-lined the chrome trims that surround the light lenses.

We gave the lense a real good clean and polish and now it all looks fab