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Today culminated in installing the glass in the tailgate. First time all the glass is in place(except windshield). Cleaned up the tailgate wire harness, re-rapped the conductors, cleaned the pinch welding at the bottom within an inch of its life. Cleaned the felt window tracks, of debris and 50+...

Yes the smell of chilled victory, then I got more annoyed at the lazy shop for not removing a couple of latches on the tailgate and the latches link arm i just installed. Maybe today I'll remove it and clean it off. Stupid OCD.

How many ways can you flip a door latch connecting rod, apparently 2 hours worth. Rear tailgate has three latches, two that open on the passengers side and one on the drivers. The latch has four connections, one at 2-o'clock another at about 4, 7 and around nine. The two at two and four are easy...

Welp it wasn't freezing in Chicago, but it wasn't beach weather either. Put on the insulated Carnharts and reinstalled the regulator and tailgate latch. Just need to figure out how the drivers side actuator rod connects to the door lever. While off found the cloth anti rattle sleeve...

Touched up the repairs, maybe a little to Red?

Garage is about 2' to short, or need to get the old house doors stripped and hung in the house. Another warm weather project.....

Decided to clean up the tailgate Door/ tailgate latch mechanism. Cleaned off the gray primer, got back to the steel, used the zinc paint to only touch up the rusted areas and the clear coated tge whole mechanism. Wait on a warm day here in Chicago, reinstall the latch mechanism and the window...

Rear window regulator is finished. Final push was cleaning the crude out between the base and lift arms. Settled on a combination of flooding the pivot points with cleaner and wipping it out with coarse twine doubled over and working it like floss, paper towel and a ripped d own piece of wood...

Decided to clean off the gray primer, wire wheel next. Then will rattle can some glossy clear. Little closer to the original steel natural color

Regulator/ motorband tailgate door mechanism are both out for clean up of the old hard grease and sand blasting dust. Still have a little to do behind the lift gears. Need to think on that for a minute. However both are clean, the gray primer preserved both of them. Will give each a light coat...

As I removed the vent window/ window assembly I kept track of the steps involved. The FSM is rather brief, thought writing the steps down may help others: Following are the steps I took to remove the frame and install the glass into the vent window assembly and reinstall: Mask door Fame by...

Today's task was to be, installing the drivers side door glass. The rear doorway in without drama. But first fixed the switch on the home made shop vac, that my dad made many years ago. Once that was working, scrubed the window tracks out with a tooth brush. Just in case there was any dirt and...

Need to do some paint matching and drill/ countersink the mounting holes going to wait until the dash is remounted.i remember the holes in the trim piece not aligning very well and hope to center them up better to prevent the holes from blowing our again in the plastic. Next step is to redo the...

Next step, the backing plate was recessed into the casting and glued down to back the blown out plastic piece around the mounting holes. Once these were sanded to shape with progressively finer grits. The finish side holes, had super glue dropped in and distributed around with the plastic...

Second installment/ steps in the lower dash cover. Cut filler pieces where the screw holes blew out. Laminated two pieces of.030 styrene cut, filed, beveled to closely match the contour. After the screw holes are filled, sections of the flange are filed down .030 and a 1/2" Dutchman is Cut...

I seem to remember three fastnets to hold the cast extensions on. The body has two on the bottom, used an inspection mirror with no proof of a third from the back, where there is a mounting hole. Anyone have pics or ? Yes the bolts will get a puff of body color paint.

Hmm, no I didn't, the brace should be black?

Some snacking today, fender braces, battery tray test fitted and filler pieces below the tail lights. Battery tray was dusted off after the pic. Fastners on the extensions will eventually get swapped for painted ones

Started the under dash trim piece repair, that should not have happened. Any how, started with relief cuts on the center rib to allow a gusset plate to be installed. Once the relief cuts were made the center section was filed down to allow the Polyester plastic piece to fit flush avoiding the...