1972 Canadian H-Code 340 Dart Swinger Special Resto - Finally started!
My sail panel boards made of cardboard with a very thin and fragile grain finish on them had some screw holes thru them, for lord knows what, posed a problem since these are getting near impossible to find anymore so I took a stab at repairing the holes. My plan was to carefully grind down the raised area from the screw keeping it as small as possible and then fill the hole from the back side with a two component black plastic repair product. When that set up I dabbed a small amount of filler on the face side and then when it began to stiffen up I used a small piece from my old dash pad, with a thin film of petroleum jelly to act as a release agent, to emboss the grain pattern in to the filler. Then I gave them 2 coats of SEM trim black, not a perfect repair but a big improvement over how they looked,
Oh and my Bilstein's, the correct ones this time, showed up and got those installed,
Keep pushing along and eventually will get to the end, PLEASE, lol!
My sail panel boards made of cardboard with a very thin and fragile grain finish on them had some screw holes thru them, for lord knows what, posed a problem since these are getting near impossible to find anymore so I took a stab at repairing the holes. My plan was to carefully grind down the raised area from the screw keeping it as small as possible and then fill the hole from the back side with a two component black plastic repair product. When that set up I dabbed a small amount of filler on the face side and then when it began to stiffen up I used a small piece from my old dash pad, with a thin film of petroleum jelly to act as a release agent, to emboss the grain pattern in to the filler. Then I gave them 2 coats of SEM trim black, not a perfect repair but a big improvement over how they looked,
Oh and my Bilstein's, the correct ones this time, showed up and got those installed,
Keep pushing along and eventually will get to the end, PLEASE, lol!