My New FABO Reality Show...Rani, I'ma Callin' You Out!!!

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Well I figured Id better make some progress while Cosgig tries to fire up his "snuggle-stick"...LOL Lens' are polished and put back in....never though it would be as much of a pain as it was, but it was a pain in the arse! Still lots to do, but at least here is a pic of progress so far!

Cheers
4spdragtop
 

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Wow I get to double dip?? Or am I late to the party?? Here is where Im at...gauge needles painted Testors Fluorescent orange...took advice and thinned a little bit. Also if I had red I would have mixed the 2 colors to darken the orange a bit. Doesnt look like it in the pics, but its really bright.

Polished up the circuit board with brasso and discovered a loose copper peg.
Gonna have to remedy that!! Ideas??

The mirrored bulbs(look the same as 194) any ideas where to get?? I can get 194's but have never seen them with a "mirrored" lens anywhere for sale. They are from the blue sockets/shades in the potmetal
Thanks all, hope to pop back in with more progress soon
 

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The show didn't get cancelled, but like "Billy the Exterminator", we have been put on "hold", at least I have anyway. I'm hopelessly stuck in the vendor vortex!! I have paid the required 1/2 down payment on my bezels to be on the 10-12 week turnaround time, and I believe I'm about 6 weeks into that. Hopefully its more like 10 weeks than 12!!

I'm gonna ramp up the show when I get my stuff back, and I know Rani is back in school andd probably has little free time herself, so that leaves Steve-O right now. He was the last poster and looks like he has the contest well in hand, at least for now. I'm actually starting to believe that Steve paid off GCAR to hide my parts, and that he has kidnapped Rani and is holding her captive in a 1976 Datsun B210 somewhere up in sunny Canada!!

Maybe he can chime in and offer up an excuse...any excuse...we'll bite on just about anything right now!!! geof
 
...we'll bite on just about anything right now!!! geof
 

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dont you just love tax return time....this is the first year i get a return in years ...usually i have to pay... Thank Mr. Obama for giving a self employed student a break who is paying her own way through school.

so with that good news ...i ordered my windsheild gasket tonight and a few other items and i am back in business lol

i am also looking for more of the shouldered screws like this one pictured
 

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RaniDart70 said:
dont you just love tax return time....this is the first year i get a return in years ...usually i have to pay... Thank Mr. Obama for giving a self employed student a break who is paying her own way through school.

so with that good news ...i ordered my windsheild gasket tonight and a few other items and i am back in business lol

i am also looking for more of the shouldered screws like this one pictured
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I have some screws like that, actually found some today in a drawer, you can have em, came from a 68 Barracuda :glasses7:
 
4spdragtop said:
Wow I get to double dip?? Or am I late to the party?? Here is where Im at...gauge needles painted Testors Fluorescent orange...took advice and thinned a little bit. Also if I had red I would have mixed the 2 colors to darken the orange a bit. Doesnt look like it in the pics, but its really bright.

Polished up the circuit board with brasso and discovered a loose copper peg.
Gonna have to remedy that!! Ideas??

The mirrored bulbs(look the same as 194) any ideas where to get?? I can get 194's but have never seen them with a "mirrored" lens anywhere for sale. They are from the blue sockets/shades in the potmetal
Thanks all, hope to pop back in with more progress soon
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Looking good Steve, I'd be able to see those needles without my glasses on :)
 
plum crazy dart said:
Looking good Steve, I'd be able to see those needles without my glasses on :)
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Thanks Peter, not much to add here, Im caught up in a vortex similar to Cosgig, but mine is a financial vortex. Sandblasting my dash frame is the next order of biz...maybe get to that this week??

BTW, the shouldered screws that Rani posted, where do they go?? I recognize them but cant remember where from....
 
4spdragtop said:
The mirrored bulbs(look the same as 194) any ideas where to get?? I can get 194's but have never seen them with a "mirrored" lens anywhere for sale.
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Dude, those are just tired-out bulbs.....they get that mirrored look after years of use.

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BTW, the shouldered screws that Rani posted, where do they go?? I recognize them but cant remember where from....
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Those are the screws that hold the dash plastic bezel on.....the ones you can see inside the holes in front.
 
Removed my windshield and dash assembly today... my ten year old son helped with the parts that could be done with a ratchet. I moving ahead slowly, but may catch you guys soon...
 
cudavert said:
Dude, those are just tired-out bulbs.....they get that mirrored look after years of use.

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Those are the screws that hold the dash plastic bezel on.....the ones you can see inside the holes in front.
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LOL, I figured the bulbs out...DOH:banghead:

As for the screws, are all the "face/front mounted" ones like that?? (same size?) Seems when we were pulling dads bezel out that there were different sized ones??
 
mosleyme said:
Removed my windshield and dash assembly today... my ten year old son helped with the parts that could be done with a ratchet. I moving ahead slowly, but may catch you guys soon...
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Great! Glad to see you jump in! My upcoming move is gonna have me lapped in no time.
Did you take before pics??
 
4spdragtop said:
Did you take before pics??
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No lack of pictures... the bezel and cluster are actually done. The dash frame and all its mods will be the time sink. When I bought my car in 1989 (or was it 88...?) the only thing in the cluster location was a cheap tach and some shattered remnants of the stock dash. In 1991 I fabbed up a piece of aluminum fit with some Autometer gauges and literally stuffed it into the hole. About 7 years ago I found an original cluster that was in decent shape and snagged it. A little over a year ago I had it sent out for some custom work by Redline guage. More detail on that if you follow the link in my signature starting at about post #53.

Cluster before I sent it to Redline:
http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/attachment.php?attachmentid=291474&stc=1&d=1326768428

Cluster after:
http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/attachment.php?attachmentid=291469&stc=1&d=1326767742

http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/attachment.php?attachmentid=291470&stc=1&d=1326767742

http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/attachment.php?attachmentid=291471&stc=1&d=1326767742

New bezel:
http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/attachment.php?attachmentid=264780&stc=1&d=1316920406

Old picture of the assembly that just came out of the car today:
 

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i got my windsheild back in ....that was a major obstacle of this project ...so the dash frame is once again trapped in. what a workout .....what a job to do by myself ......one inch at a time ...took forever ...at least i didnt break the window
 

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i also soaked a few clips and bolts in metal ready ...it removed all the rust and then i painted appropriately and baked a little LOL.

i determined from my cousin's cuda that there are 8 shouldered screws and they were plated a shiney silver .....as far as i know they were all silver until 70 ...70 and 71 were phosphate black to match the bezel ...i could be wrong but that what i got from digging around
 

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Where was little sis to help with the windshield Rani?? Don't tell me she had her fill with the wagon!!! Geof
 
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Where was little sis to help with the windshield Rani?? Don't tell me she had her fill with the wagon!!! Geof
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they all abandoned me today ......figures when the work gets serious they suddenly have appoinments to go do . :tard:
 
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