1972 Duster Build with my Daughter
We were whooped with the top so today was more of a wrench turning day rather than polishing (that is actually harder work than it would seem).
DMT, what would we do without Jim and his wife.....
Passenger weatherstrip rail is polished and seal installed ready for the car.
Bought these 4mm rivets that were sent from China.... It was a failure... The factory diameter is weird and the 4mm was too small... Still needing to figure this out to get the wing windows back together....
Stuck the window in just for effect but we did finish the stripes.... sort of..... It started out great.
Then the tail panel kicked our butt. Yes it is crooked and yes it is full of bubbles. Will be ordering another. The shape of the panel is not factory as I had to do body work there so the right way is to cut this into 4 parts and have an overlap in the middle. That would be much less noticeable than the eight thousand bubbles.... She voted for the Twister sticker. I think it looks great with it. I like the way she made it follow the stripe instead of level with the body line..
We got the left quarter one stripped as we messed that one up a few weeks ago. Need to order that one too.
Then we attacked the trunk. All the marker lights are in for good with new bulbs and the rear wiring is in with new bulbs. Just need to restore the taillights.
New Tanks Inc tank and OER sending unit. Not sure what they modeled the "exact duplicate OEM" from but not '72/'73. They both had much longer arms. You can't get this in with the float (at least it is a brass and not plastic float) so I stuck tape on the end to use to hold the float to maneuver it back into the clamp wire and snap it on. We dropped it in the tank 20 times before I thought of this idea..... It needed a bit of a bend as the sock hit the bottom of the tank and the flange would not sit flush.... hate aftermarket.....
Yes I pulled the OEM lock ring from one of the original tanks and did not use the cheaper thin one that came with the tank.
Kaelyn ran the wiring and I blasted and painted the filler tube. A new DMT boot (now I know the trunk mat covers this I kick myself for just not reusing the original, it just looked bad) and the body plugs are inserted.
We were whooped with the top so today was more of a wrench turning day rather than polishing (that is actually harder work than it would seem).
DMT, what would we do without Jim and his wife.....
Passenger weatherstrip rail is polished and seal installed ready for the car.
Bought these 4mm rivets that were sent from China.... It was a failure... The factory diameter is weird and the 4mm was too small... Still needing to figure this out to get the wing windows back together....
Stuck the window in just for effect but we did finish the stripes.... sort of..... It started out great.
Then the tail panel kicked our butt. Yes it is crooked and yes it is full of bubbles. Will be ordering another. The shape of the panel is not factory as I had to do body work there so the right way is to cut this into 4 parts and have an overlap in the middle. That would be much less noticeable than the eight thousand bubbles.... She voted for the Twister sticker. I think it looks great with it. I like the way she made it follow the stripe instead of level with the body line..
We got the left quarter one stripped as we messed that one up a few weeks ago. Need to order that one too.
Then we attacked the trunk. All the marker lights are in for good with new bulbs and the rear wiring is in with new bulbs. Just need to restore the taillights.
New Tanks Inc tank and OER sending unit. Not sure what they modeled the "exact duplicate OEM" from but not '72/'73. They both had much longer arms. You can't get this in with the float (at least it is a brass and not plastic float) so I stuck tape on the end to use to hold the float to maneuver it back into the clamp wire and snap it on. We dropped it in the tank 20 times before I thought of this idea..... It needed a bit of a bend as the sock hit the bottom of the tank and the flange would not sit flush.... hate aftermarket.....
Yes I pulled the OEM lock ring from one of the original tanks and did not use the cheaper thin one that came with the tank.
Kaelyn ran the wiring and I blasted and painted the filler tube. A new DMT boot (now I know the trunk mat covers this I kick myself for just not reusing the original, it just looked bad) and the body plugs are inserted.