1963 Dart 170 2 Door Post Resto
Moving forward...with only one minor hiccup today. Got both door glass and vent assemblies installed today. Cleaned up the glass and polished the chrome and stainless as best I could. The rubber on the vent glass was still soft and in very good condition so I didn't replace that. Love how all the bolts and hardware looks new and the regulators as well. Mind you no one will see it once the panels go back on. But at least I know they were serviced and done right.
Went in much easier than expected. Wish I had a second set of hands available today for this job but I managed. Got the bumper brackets flipped over in the evaporust to clean the other side as well. Should be ready for paint in the morning. Then the rear bumper goes on.
Even got the rear roof line stainless clips installed. Got lucky there. 2 were missing the rubber rings to seal to the roof and I also broke 2 on install. I say lucky as I only needed 12 and the kit I ordered came with 14. Prepping to polish the stainless now for install. Has some scratches I want to get rid of. I had a couple dents on the one piece of stainless for the top of the quarter panel but got lucky and found a nice one on line and ordered it. I was going to work them out but the worse one was right on the bend at the rear and would be extremely difficult to get looking nice again without a lot of time.
battery hold down done too. Discovered the replacement I ordered didn't really fit properly. The shafts were way too long and would almost hit the hood when closed. I didn't want to cut them off at the top and have an obvious mark on the top so I cut off the bottom of each and rebent the hook. Worked out nice. Also had to tap one of the wing nuts as it had no threads at all. The joys of repop parts I guess. No biggie overall. If this is the worst I find in my repop parts I'll be happy.
Also got my new heater core today and it looks good. Seems like nice quality. Will update once I try to install it as to fit and if it leaks...lol.
The hiccup I ran into was the rear license plate bumpers. The ones that came in the bumper kit I ordered don't fit. They are much too small. Any one know of where I can get the correct size for these cars? Also that will ship to canada?
Moving forward...with only one minor hiccup today. Got both door glass and vent assemblies installed today. Cleaned up the glass and polished the chrome and stainless as best I could. The rubber on the vent glass was still soft and in very good condition so I didn't replace that. Love how all the bolts and hardware looks new and the regulators as well. Mind you no one will see it once the panels go back on. But at least I know they were serviced and done right.
Went in much easier than expected. Wish I had a second set of hands available today for this job but I managed. Got the bumper brackets flipped over in the evaporust to clean the other side as well. Should be ready for paint in the morning. Then the rear bumper goes on.
Even got the rear roof line stainless clips installed. Got lucky there. 2 were missing the rubber rings to seal to the roof and I also broke 2 on install. I say lucky as I only needed 12 and the kit I ordered came with 14. Prepping to polish the stainless now for install. Has some scratches I want to get rid of. I had a couple dents on the one piece of stainless for the top of the quarter panel but got lucky and found a nice one on line and ordered it. I was going to work them out but the worse one was right on the bend at the rear and would be extremely difficult to get looking nice again without a lot of time.
battery hold down done too. Discovered the replacement I ordered didn't really fit properly. The shafts were way too long and would almost hit the hood when closed. I didn't want to cut them off at the top and have an obvious mark on the top so I cut off the bottom of each and rebent the hook. Worked out nice. Also had to tap one of the wing nuts as it had no threads at all. The joys of repop parts I guess. No biggie overall. If this is the worst I find in my repop parts I'll be happy.
Also got my new heater core today and it looks good. Seems like nice quality. Will update once I try to install it as to fit and if it leaks...lol.
The hiccup I ran into was the rear license plate bumpers. The ones that came in the bumper kit I ordered don't fit. They are much too small. Any one know of where I can get the correct size for these cars? Also that will ship to canada?