1965 Dodge Dart Charger

65dartcharger said
The clips that holds the brake hose/brake line showed up today from Roger Gibson. Top notch stuff that's now in place. I guess I have no excude for not starting bleeding the brakes after I got the front drums in place.

The front rear splash shield was the next thing today. I have bought all the gaskets from DMT and I must say that their quality is superb. Everything fits just as it should. I had done the screws holding the splash shiled in factory silver zinc finish.

I started from top so I got the splash shield tight to the upper part of the front fender. Then I followed the line down wards until I stopped and added the plastic gasket that mounts between the front side of the rocker moulding and the splash shield. I guess that it's function is to keep all dirt, water and other elements from getting stuck behind the splash shield. Then it was the last two bolts and there it was. But as 65DartGTConv said, it gonna feels sad to shoot the undercoating on top of this.

Agree on all counts. But what you might want to consider when it actually comes time to spray that undercoating is to deviate a bit from the haphazard application of the factory and concentrate on all of the edges of the splash shields and where they meet their mating parts. Also, that piece of closed cell foam at the bottom just screams "water trap", so coating it thoroughly in the undercoating might not be a bad thing.

If you intend for your car to be a permanent demonstration of exactly how a car was built by L.A. assembly and not driven, then reproducing the haphazrd spray pattern is the way to go, but if you want to drive your car and expose it to the weather while it's out on the road some care with the undercoating material might keep all of your hard work from deteriorating that much sooner.