Road Wheel Restoration Help!

[78Brougham]

I'm afraid I've never had much luck with JB Weld. Body shop guys have a product made by Norton, it's professional grade two part stuff. Make a trip out to your body shop and bum some off of them. They use it to bond body panels together. So you know it's premium stuff. It comes in different bonding set times. Don't get the one minute stuff! I got some off of a customer one time but it's too fast, you'll barely get it in place. It's also very expensive about $90.00 U.S. with the caulking gun applicator.
I bought the 20 minute stuff. Use it for all kinds of things.

So when are we gonna see your "Phantom" 300?

 

[Dobalovr]

I'm afraid I've never had much luck with JB Weld. Body shop guys have a product made by Norton, it's professional grade two part stuff. Make a trip out to your body shop and bum some off of them. They use it to bond body panels together. So you know it's premium stuff. It comes in different bonding set times. Don't get the one minute stuff! I got some off of a customer one time but it's too fast, you'll barely get it in place. It's also very expensive about $90.00 U.S. with the caulking gun applicator.
I bought the 20 minute stuff. Use it for all kinds of things.

So when are we gonna see your "Phantom" 300?

Been laying Easter eggs for 3 weeks now....you're the only one picking up what I'm putting down lol

 

[78Brougham]

 

[3C's & a D?]

1/8-1/16th thick so no. The stud broke off at the base of the ring.

Ahh. Ok I was focusing on the top picture with the boss still intact.

If your not planning on ever removing it from the stainless wheel cover again, just glue it in place onto the wheel cover with RTV, or jb weld

Glad you said it, I didn't want to. Even some foam tape stacked up to prevent any rattling given that it sits right.

 

[3C's & a D?]

Been laying Easter eggs for 3 weeks now....you're the only one picking up what I'm putting down lol

Sorry man, things have been hectic as of late, and as such I have not been spending as much time on this fine forum as I would like to. I haven't seen any of these eggs you speak of, whatcha been up to???

 

[Dobalovr]

This & that.....

 

[3C's & a D?]

That seat seems on the narrow side. Do I smell a convertible? Or perhaps (looking at the instrument panel) something closer to a Doba?

 

[78Brougham]

Those are from a '79 300. Shhhhhh....We're thinking Graham has one hidden from his wife somewhere while he's doing a little cleanup on it.
He's been throwing hints all over the place about it.
We're waiting anxiously for a true confession, with pics of course. At least I am anyway.

That back seat looks in excellent condition. What are you doing with the dash?

 

[Dobalovr]

 

[commando1]

 

[300rag]

Nope. I'll leave the rest for Doba.

 

[Dobalovr]

 

[commando1]

&$@#%%

 

[78Brougham]

To me the '79 300 is "Holy Grail" of all Cordoba's . Took me 37 years to get one like the one I couldn't afford when I was 21. And I'm loving it!

 

[Carmine]

If I recall, those wheel inserts are a flexible urethane, in which case I don't think you'll ever find a "glue" with the mechanical strength to attach a fastener. I've used soft fascia repair kits, those work well but you still wouldn't have much mechanical strength. I think you'd either have to use a dab of windshield urethane (if you didn't go crazy, you could likely break that free again) or run a stud through a black area then pile on a black adhesive product (fascia kit, rtv, urethane) to bury the fastener head/washer.

 

[Dobalovr]

If I recall, those wheel inserts are a flexible urethane, in which case I don't think you'll ever find a "glue" with the mechanical strength to attach a fastener. I've used soft fascia repair kits, those work well but you still wouldn't have much mechanical strength. I think you'd either have to use a dab of windshield urethane (if you didn't go crazy, you could likely break that free again) or run a stud through a black area then pile on a black adhesive product (fascia kit, rtv, urethane) to bury the fastener head/washer.

These are hard rigid plastic my other rims are the urethane turbine style from an 81 Doba

 

[Carmine]

These are hard rigid plastic my other rims are the urethane turbine style from an 81 Doba
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Those turbine rims are actually older than the '79 300 rims. I think they were used from '75-'77 on B-bodies. But it's been a while since I've had a set of those 300 rims in my hands, so if the inserts are a rigid plastic, it think you'd have a fighting chance with one of the epoxies mentioned. I'd probably still use a metal machine screw/net (epoxied to the plastic) vs one of the original thread-cuttter plastic studs... less stress on the joint.