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The way I cut the door garnishes to make the rear window garnish, gave me just enough material left over for the window garnishes. I started by cutting off the parts that were not usable ( the tapered part of the leading edge, and the sharp corner on the inside/front), so I could correct the angle to follow the angle of the B-pillar instead of the angle of the A-pillar it had stock. After that, I tacked a new, non tapered piece back in. And a new rounded lower front corner, like I did before on the door garnishes.
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Checking the fit. The rest of the garnish molding needs to have a rounded shape to follow the curve of the window opening ( slightly over 180deg) The piece I want to make it out of is the upper section of the door garnish, which is almost completely straight. Because of the complicated profile of the piece, there is no way it would bend that way. So I cut it lengthwise, to separate the side from the top. I started with shaping the side first, which was a real problem. First of all, the piece was very rust pitted. Which weakened it, but also made it a lot harder to bend in a accurate way ( the same force doesn't always give the same result...) I did a lot of annealing of the parts I knew I'd had to stretch a lot, which helped. But since the sides are not flanged at a true 90deg ( but quite a bit more) I knew the top of the profile would not be right after bending, if the lower part of the profile would accurately follow the window opening. To keep everything in line, I tacked everything to a piece of 1/8" steel plate. I could then heat the upper part cherry red, and hammer them out to the right shape. I bent the upper section to the right curve, and tacked that to the lower/side piece. After finish welding all the tack welded seams, grinding down the welds. Checking the fit in the car.
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This is the width of the pocket. It has the correct clearance for a piece of glass and the runners ( wind down window). It needs to be the thickness of a single piece of glass 1/4". I could have made the garnish molding deeper to cover that extra depth, but then it wouldnt have matched the door garnish. So I'll correct the window opening instead, as soon as the LHS 1/4 window garnish is done. Its a massive amount of work, but I think its worth it. And also, I'm saving about $1000 in repro garnish moldings...
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braaap
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I absolutely fail to find an adjective to describe Your craftmanship appropriately!
Let me just say OOOF!
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OOF! Indeed.
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Nov 20, 2023 12:23:39 GMT
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As others have said "OOF" indeed
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jimi
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Nov 20, 2023 14:24:53 GMT
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Black is not a colour ! .... Its the absence of colour
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Nov 20, 2023 15:38:21 GMT
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Thanks guys
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Nov 20, 2023 22:43:56 GMT
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I admire your sheet-metal work 🙂
That is indeed a lot of work. But worth it!
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So my neighbours could enjoy their turkey dinner, I took a little break from the hammering and grinding with the garnish moldings.
Earlier in the week I went to a junkyard, to look for a scrap 2.3 Lima Pinto engine.
Just a busted/incomplete engine to do the fab work with, instead of the engine I plan to use.
I found one, but they wanted good engine price for it, so no deal.
But I did pick up a donut spare for the coupe.
Usually, Hot Rods based on these early Fords don't have a spare.
Stock locations are in/on the front fender(s), or hanging off the back.
Neither option looks good.
The trunk isn't big enough for a spare, specially if the gastank is in the trunk as well ( like mine is ).
But I did some measuring, and there was another option.
Which is great, because I like my ( street)cars to have a spare...
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This is the spare I found. No idea what it is off ( pretty sure its not Ford), but it has the correct 5X4.5 bolt pattern and it is 16 by 4". Tire on it was used up ( it was the wrong size anyway), so I got a new 125/90R16 tire for it. ( roughly the same dia as the 165R15 front Michelins, but a lot smaller than the rears. If I'd get a flat rear tire, I think I could drive on it, but it would probably burn up the clutch discs in the LSD. Which, depending on the situation, might still be better than getting stranded...) Long time ago, I picked up a original Halibrand knock off nut. The car it was on probably hit a wall or something, so the ears were bent. Actually, they were bent so much the threads were no longer true and usable ( I payed next to nothing for it, as a "nice to have"...) After all these years, it was finally going to get used. First I got rid of the damaged threads. Then I cut a piece of 3.5" round to size, pressed it in, and welded it.
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Next, I went through my stash of miscellaneous spare pulleys and found one of about the right size. Which I cut down. I made a little guideplate to bolt to the outside ( this will guide the 1/2" threaded rod on the Halibrand knock off to the center of the cut down pulley, where it will thread into the nut I welded to the backside of it ). The whole deal looks like this. I made a pan for the spare to sit on ( this will be part of the floor, behind the driver seat). Welded it in, and also welded the pulley to the rear bulkhead. The spare now mounts like this. And there is just enough space for it behind the seat. I have some ideas of how to upholster around it, but that is for later...
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Nice, very nice solution ...
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Nov 26, 2023 10:36:12 GMT
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Agreed, that's a very tidy solution!
I think that might be a late model Mustang spacesaver, not that it really matters
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Nov 26, 2023 10:40:12 GMT
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Maybe... There was a latemodel Mustang in that yard... Thanks guys.
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jimi
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Nov 26, 2023 12:18:29 GMT
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My X1-9 had the spare wheel behind the drivers seat in a similar fashion ( it balanced out the fuel tank which was in a similar place behind the passengers seat) always thought it was a cool idea 👍
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Black is not a colour ! .... Its the absence of colour
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Nov 26, 2023 16:06:10 GMT
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jimi , I forgot about that one. I guess some more Fiat snuck in there. This time unintentionally... My inspiration for this was actually a certain version of a ( baywindow?) VW bus. I even tried to find a panel out of one to adapt, but I could not find one used ( repro was crazy expensive). Because the space is so small, I would have had to modify it a lot. So starting from scratch is better anyway...
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