Taking Up New Residence

[khryslerkid]

More bodywork this week.

The passenger side took a hit at one time and the bodywork was starting to show its age. So just some temporary work to make it last a little longer and look more presentable.

Drivers side just needed sanding enough to get rid of all the stone chips.

Painting outside, 70 degree weather today.

Now I'll have to get the wiring harness cleaned up and install it. Clean up the headlight buckets, stainless trim, straighten out one of the two grills that I have, don't know which one is better, ect.

 

[khryslerkid]

 

[khryslerkid]

 

[Fran Blacker]

How about splaing what in pics. Wire powder?

 

[Thunderlugs]

View attachment 535701 View attachment 535702 View attachment 535703 View attachment 535704 View attachment 535705 View attachment 535706 View attachment 535707 View attachment 535709 View attachment 535710 View attachment 535712

Are Those grommets factory??....Or is that your touch? Like It!

 

[khryslerkid]

How about splaing what in pics. Wire powder?

Cleaning up the wireing harness from the bulkhead to the headlights/marker lights. The powder is undercoating that was sprayed inside the fenderwells.

 

[khryslerkid]

Are Those grommets factory??....Or is that your touch? Like It!

They're factory. I guess they weren't in place when the undercoating was done. The back of the buckets and bulbs are covered with it.

 

[khryslerkid]

Cleaned and installed the headlight buckets.

Ran to three stores to buy four headlight bulbs. Learned the hard way, don't buy Chinese! The H5006 bulbs fit fine. The H5001 bulbs don't fit. Wrong tab orientation, they're close but won't work.

So I thought I would clean up the lights that came with the car. First one cleaned up real nice. Second one, being very careful, I broke the little glass tip in the center! So they not going to work.

I looked them up on NAPA's website and they have the Wagner brand. I had one made by Wagner at the one parts store and they look more like the non halogen bulb. They only had two so I cancelled out on them. I'll hit NAPA up in the morning. I want four of the same brand. It's a fkn headlight! What's the problem?

Went ahead and cleaned the parking light assemblies and installed them.

 

[khryslerkid]

I can't make up my mind which grill to fix up so I think I'll just do both of them and see which one comes out better.

 

[oldbee]

Choices, choices!!

 

[khryslerkid]

Took the afternoon off. Thought I would get ready for hibernation.

 

[khryslerkid]

Back on the '62 today.

Napa had the H5006 and H5001 bulbs for me this morning. Wagner product, made by Federal Mogul. The problem I had with the Phillips was that the high beam (H5001) had the wrong backs on them. The three nubbs were orientated like the low beam (H5006). Morons!

Installed and working

If you look back to post #389, I decided to use the back grill. The front one looked straight but further inspection showed a lot more work. Too many imperfections. I fabricated a piece of aluminum to fit the inside of the grill pickets to reshape the kinks. The one picket was really bad but in the end it came out better than I thought it would.

Doing some trial fitment

Sanding and sanding. Then taping up all of the bare areas. (My hands are flaring up)

Ready for paint. Getting late so after painting it I just took it into the house to stay warm overnight. Enough for one day!

 

[khryslerkid]

Hey, I'm running out of parts! Grill ready to install.

Cleaned up the two inserts. (Before and after)

Cleaned up and painted the outer headlight trim pieces. They are two piece so with all of the extra pieces I had, I managed to assemble two good ones.

I used etching primer on the bare metal

Found a bright white paint.

Everything ready to install.

Needed to install the lower valance before the grill. The hood latch bracket and a support piece goes on after that. Easier to do without the grill in the way.

 

[khryslerkid]

Starting to look like a car again.

Next is trying my hand at stainless steel trim. The better pieces are what I've found over the years and they have a couple of spots that need work. The real bad pieces are what was on the car!

 

[1962polara]

Nice work & process kid .Slow & steady is hard to teach young ones nowadays ....you’d be a good teacher

 

[Thunderlugs]

Hey, I'm running out of parts! Grill ready to install.

View attachment 537347

Cleaned up the two inserts. (Before and after)
View attachment 537348

Cleaned up and painted the outer headlight trim pieces. They are two piece so with all of the extra pieces I had, I managed to assemble two good ones.
View attachment 537350
View attachment 537351
View attachment 537359

I used etching primer on the bare metal
View attachment 537352

Found a bright white paint.
View attachment 537353

Everything ready to install.
View attachment 537354

Needed to install the lower valance before the grill. The hood latch bracket and a support piece goes on after that. Easier to do without the grill in the way.
View attachment 537356
[A
Kid ,,, Do you have any tricks or tips you would care to share, on cleaning up your anodized and stainless trim? Each may require its own method. Curious as to how you are getting your results. Thanks!
Thunder


TTACH=full]537364[/ATTACH]

Kid

 

[Thunderlugs]

Kid .. Do you have any tricks or tips you would care to share on cleaning up your anodized, or stainless trim? Each may require its own method. Curious as to how you are getting your exceptional results ! Thanks
Thunder

 

[khryslerkid]

Kid

What?

Kid .. Do you have any tricks or tips you would care to share on cleaning up your anodized, or stainless trim? Each may require its own method. Curious as to how you are getting your exceptional results ! Thanks
Thunder

 

[Fran Blacker]

What?


View attachment 537534

Kid you forgot a large tub of elbow grease.

 

[khryslerkid]

Kid you forgot a large tub of elbow grease.