Where I'm at so far... - Page 6

yetibone · #76 January 28th 2006, 23:26

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Originally Posted by Lazarus

yeti did you get the foam out? when i had the quarters relaced on mine i had todd ( my good friend and body shopper) to remove all the foam so it wouldnt hold any water,it causes lots of destruction. just look

but its fixed now thank goodness.

http://www.germanlook.com/Forums/att...tachmentid=867

http://www.germanlook.com/Forums/att...tachmentid=868

http://www.germanlook.com/Forums/att...tachmentid=869

Yeah, while I had pieces cut out of the rear window corners, I could see how and why they rusted out in the first place. Stiff foam traps water away from it's core, next to the metal.

I made a hook out of a barbecue skewer and tore it all out before I welded the new pieces in place. Everything I could touch with a paintbrush got oxy-solved, and POR-15'd inside.

yetibone · #77 January 29th 2006, 13:36

Ok, I just finished stitching the last patch into the right rear quarter. Now the body is ready to come back off the pan to be chemically stripped, primed, high and low spots fixed, sealed, and painted inside and out.

Still gotta get 1.25" wider front fenders, and a rear apron.

*please excuse the poor quality pics*

yetibone · #78 January 29th 2006, 13:39

A couple more pics.

**NO_H2O** · #79 January 29th 2006, 16:22

Fine job :agree:
That foam has a bad idea in the end. Both my Black car and Ryan's Red car had some repairs to make and foam to remove.

yetibone · #80 January 30th 2006, 13:48

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Originally Posted by NO_H2O

That foam has a bad idea in the end. Both my Black car and Ryan's Red car had some repairs to make and foam to remove.

True dat! I can't help but think that the type of foam used does make a signifigant difference. I see a lot more '72 and later cars with this problem than '71 and earlier, and now I know there is a difference in what type material was injected into the window sections before and after late '71.

**NO_H2O** · #81 January 30th 2006, 20:18

I don't think there was anything injected in there untill the little half moon vent was used 71 and later.

yetibone · #82 January 30th 2006, 20:49

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Originally Posted by NO_H2O

I don't think there was anything injected in there untill the little half moon vent was used 71 and later.

The '69 I got the pieces from had foam that was like a blob of really dense sofa cushion material. Sue's bug has the same type stuff.

yetibone · #83 February 11th 2006, 19:24

I installed the engine today to mock-up some things. Figgured out where the muffler, and oil filter are going, and made sure the rear apron, and tins for the DTM were gonna fit. Still haven't made a heat shield between the exhaust, and oil lines, but I will once I have the engine out, and back up on the workbench.

Currently, the engine sits about 12mm too far to the right, so I'll have to modify the crossmember slightly to move everything back to the left.

More crappy pics...

yetibone · #84 February 11th 2006, 19:43

Pics of the engine. See the gap between the sealing tins, and the compartment seal groove on the left. There's no gap on the right. If I move the front of the gearbox to the left, then it should equal out.

Also, the shroud has kind of a rightward lean to it as well. It looks exagerated in the second pic by my not holding the camera straight.

I'll also correct that when the engines' back on the workbench.

Mikey · #85 February 11th 2006, 20:45

Yo, dats fly!

(Lookin' Good)

**NO_H2O** · #86 February 12th 2006, 11:33

Looks like you are chipping away at it. That is going to be one sweet GL when you get it done. :agree:

yetibone · #87 February 12th 2006, 14:46

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Originally Posted by NO_H2O

Looks like you are chipping away at it. That is going to be one sweet GL when you get it done. :agree:

Thanks Dave. It's been a long, tough row to hoe.

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Originally Posted by Mikey

Yo, dats fly!

*Yo, mo' preesh on peepin' my ride, money! 'Bout to raise up and toss out mad flavas fo' y'all eyeballs, kno-wut-I-shayin' dog?

(*translation: Thanks, Mikey. Pics of the oil cooler installation comming soon)

**NO_H2O** · #88 February 12th 2006, 15:13

True Dat. :agree:

yetibone · #89 February 12th 2006, 17:26

I mounted the front oil cooler today. With an 18"x24" 22ga. piece of sheet steel I made a piece to cover the opening I cut out of the tire well. I did this because I wanted the cooler high enough so It wouldn't peek out from underneath the car, and I needed room for a fan behind it. The mounting tabs on top are 1/8" steel with M6 nuts welded to it to bolt the cooler in, and the tabs are welded straight to the tire well. The bottom mounts are T6 aluminum pipe pressed flat on the ends, drilled, M6 threaded on the cooler's end, and 5/16" stainless steel riveted to the framehead on the other end.

yetibone · #90 February 12th 2006, 17:42

Mo' pics.

The last pic is of the spacers I'll be using to get the wheels out to the edge of the fenders.

Still to do to the chassis:
-re-index the rear torsion bars. Currently the rear is WAAAAY to high.
-borrow a friends lathe and take 2" off the Bilstein cartridges in front.
-Modify the transmission crossmember to move the engine over to the left 10mm.
-install 100mm long rear wheel studs.

Still to do to the body:
-trim the bottom of the rear apron. The rear fender section I used for the bulge was a little too long vertically.
-take delivery of my front fenders.
-weld up antenna hole, and trim holes.
-strip, etch prime, knock down highs, fill in lows, 2K prime, block, and paint.

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