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    Restoration of my families grocery getter

    Touched up the repairs, maybe a little to Red?
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    Restoration of my families grocery getter

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

    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...
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    Restoration of my families grocery getter

    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...
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    WANTED 1969 dodge polara wagon parts

    This is what I have in blue door cards, one is a bit wrinkley. I'll work on getting the plastic photos up.
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    Restoration of my families grocery getter

    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
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    Question: Trim Retaining screws - 1970 Plymouth Custom Suburban

    I know 69 they were the polished steel, not painted. Confident 70 is the same, from my yard walks. Not sure if they were chromed.
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    Restoration of my families grocery getter

    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...
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    Tail gate regulator lift motor

    69 plymouth wagon. When I looked there was no grnd symbol attached to the motor. Just the two leads one through the limit switch tied to the Brown at the key switch. The other Dk Green connected to the yellow wire back to the key switch as I recall. Red home runned? I'll look again as well...
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    Tail gate regulator lift motor

    So, the tailgate motor uses a chassie ground. Took one lead of "shotgun" energizer. A 12v battery with a momentary switch in series. With two alligator clips on the motor end. Grounded the negative to the regulator frame mountin stud, had shiny metal threads for good contact. The other went to...
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    Tail gate regulator lift motor

    Was afraid of that, tested as your saying. Hoped I did it wrong, only other thing is using a 12v battery with about 8 ah, May noy have enough current with the cold and thick grease. Thanks for the quick reply. Will remove the motor, and get it and the regulator out for clean up as i set out to do.
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    Tail gate regulator lift motor

    Want to move and test the motor that actuates the regulator attached to the tailgate window. 12v battery battery, negative lead attached to the regulator frame/ sub- assembly. Positive lead connected to one of the two needs from the motor. One lead up the other lead down? Thanks
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    Restoration of my families grocery getter

    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...
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    Restoration of my families grocery getter

    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...
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    1973 New Yorker Brougham - Power Window Crimp Terminals

    Typically when the wire enters the terminal the 90° to the contact they are called flags. This may help, two parameters are needed to know: wire gauge for proper crimp diameter and tge contact diameter/ size. Lonk may help...
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    Frt door glass installation.

    If my memory serves me and the difficulty in getting a piece of glass out in the yard last week. This assembly slips in from the outside of the window frame. The body type is a wagon which is the same door as the sedan. The vent wing, front guide for the door glass and the glass go in as an...
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    Found two in the wild 69 lower dash covers

    Out picking a undamaged wheel housing and screws to attac the windows to the operators. (Hope i have the channels that attach to the windows, thought of this yesterday on the way back). While browsing the donors, I keep an eye out. One was in the back seat, the other buried under a whole lot of...
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    Product stickers from the 60/ 70's

    Not sure why this one survived off of a folder but it did. Had Cherry Bomb one as well. Digging for another thing and found this.
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    Restoration of my families grocery getter

    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...
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