MacLebaron
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As always , looking better each time! Coming along nicely.
I’m sorry, I see you asked a question and I didn’t respond. It is silver. The paint is not new but it is relatively recent, I was told by the man on whose property the car is sitting.Is that green or silver?
Thanks, just a little hassle factor with re-attaching these nuts, but once it’s DONE, and you don’t drop any down the pillar ‘rat hole’, that’s a good feeling!As always , looking better each time! Coming along nicely.
Oh, ok! Now I see! Didn’t want to risk any potential leaks down the pillar. Ah-ha! Cheap insurance by Mopar!My wagon had it slso, seals the pinch weld between the two sheet metal pieces
If I want the reward, I am learning I have to persevere...
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Whoa. Now I know I wasn’t just “belly-aching” about the hassle of reinstalling those grab handles, if someone with your level of experience has trouble too, Steve! One thought, you might recover the nuts by removing the taillight Assy. and fishing around with a magnet taped to the end of a coat hanger. Sometimes that is where they fall...and sometimes it isn’t...I just went through putting a couple NOS grab handles on my 1969 Town & Country this last weekend. You are so right, what a pain installing those was - I couldn't believe they had assembly line guys installing those things in the factory in any reasonable amount of time. I tried using some dum dum to keep the nuts in the socket but it wasn't good enough and I lost one down the "rat hole". After that, I took some of the green 3M masking tape and just put the nut in the socket and taped the outer edge of the nut to the socket and it stayed in place as I fumbled around trying to get the right combination of swivel extensions and right size wrenches to install those buggers. Glad that job is done!!
Kudos to you Scott for your perserverance and your help as well on getting a new headliner conversion put into my wagon too to replace that crappy perforated hard board mess that mine came with. And Murray Park has come across with his always excellent help and provided me with the front and rear interior dome lights mounts that I will have to add to the underside of the roof in the interior to mount those pieces so I can attach the interior light assemblies after the cloth headliner is installed. Working my way through this all now.
Thanks for your great thread!
Steve
Whoa. Now I know I wasn’t just “belly-aching” about the hassle of reinstalling those grab handles, if someone with your level of experience has trouble too, Steve! One thought, you might recover the nuts by removing the taillight Assy. and fishing around with a magnet taped to the end of a coat hanger. Sometimes that is where they fall...and sometimes it isn’t...
I may have a couple questions for you. I have a piece of thin cardboard that I can’t figure out where it goes. I may text you a pic to see if you recognize it, and where it goes.
Taking all the original seats out today to take in my truck to shop 3.5 hours away. I hope this is a good move. Waiting on SMS to get him the materials. Hopefully they won’t live up to their ‘slow as molasses’ reputation for shipping.
It’s funny, I pulled a junk brown electric driver’s seat from a 74 Monaco at a u-pull-it lot. Same pattern as mine. I tried to power it up, and it didn’t work. Now it is serving as the only seat in my car. Fortunately it is at the right adjustment to be comfortable! Whew! “Thank you God.” The other seats will all be getting re-covered. I was thinking about refurbishing the brown electric seat instead, but my original manual seat is in much better shape and I don’t really have a need for an electric seat, for just me. There is no power cable for it any way, in my car, since it came from the factory with manual seats.
Next week is A/C at RK Motors in Charlotte. I hope those guys know what they are doing...
See ya...
Scott