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CDN72SE's Restoration Thread

Got the front sway bar finished.

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Used Eastwood Chassis black, Seymour's Stainless steel paint and the bushings are Moog.

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Rear Taillights

Decided to take a look at these this past weekend, I have one NOS black and one a nice argent taillight. The plan is to re-finish them both with the tri-colour effect, black, grey (or darker argent) and argent. I am not too concerned with them looking OEM exact. I've got so many different cans of silver, argent, aluminum, grey it's getting nuts so whatever I have on my shelf that is the closest I think I will use.

Here's the black bezel.

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and the argent:

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Started masking:
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Got it painted:
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Ready to spray some argent I had kicking around for the outer part of the bezel:
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Thought I'd share my mistake, I painted these two bezels two weeks apart and somewhere along the line I mixed up the finishing paint, one I used Eastwood's Spray Gray and the other is Detail Gray. I think the top is Detail Gray, when I have made the correction I'll straighten it out. :brickwall: Well at least I have two different samples.

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Installed:
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Rust Bullet

Applied the first coat this past Sunday and used about half of the one gallon container; I did the engine compartment, the interior, tail panel and most of the trunk, I used a sponge roller.

Before:
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After:
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Few more:
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Did a little fender clean up as well.

old Walmart primer which wasn't the best idea:
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Not looking too bad:
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Fun stuff, not too bad to get off and the metal is perfect underneath:
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Fast foward and I realize that I will not be able to get into all the nooks and crannies so I decide to take my pair of fenders to Technostrip (www.technostrip) which is close by here in Brampton, Ontario. $300 for the pair, came out really nicely and just so nice to see so clean. Here are a few shots:

First:
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Second:
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Last:
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Have the k-frame kicking around the garage so I thought I would start sprucing it up a bit. Unfortunately I did not loosen the front nuts on the strut rod when they were attached to the LCA's and on the car. This makes it a bit more difficult to keep the rod from spinning when turning the nut.

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Did a search on the topic and read about the idea of using a torsion bar tool, have one of those, now I have a second use for it.

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Tightened it and stepped on it with my 245lbs and turned.

Success

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I purchased Moog kit K7026, but I think I may end up just buying the bushings and re-use my original parts. Yes these are the originals that were on there.
 
Door Hinges
My door's have never closed (hinged) correctly and I was never really sure what part(s) I may be missing for the hinges. One side had a roller the other didn't, one side had the little piece the roller rolls on and the other didn't and the hinges were just loose.

Many years ago I bought the door pin and bushing repair kit from the local parts store (Canadian Tire) and had it laying around, then I thought I may need something better. so I purchased the Door Hinge Pin Kit you see on the right in the first picture.

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Bought the drill bit and gave it a shot, had a hard time with the drill bit and then gave up. Figured I would bite the bullet and get the hinges rebuilt instead of buying the new AMD hinges. Searched around with what others were saying and decided on SMS.

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Here they are cleaned up and lubed and the rods and rollers look very solid, better than originals.

When received:
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lower hinges:
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Upper hinges:
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Close up of pin:
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Another view:
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Lower installed:
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Upper installed:
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My car is nowhere near ready and I only installed the doors to get them out of the way but it's nice to see the doors open and stay open and close smoothly.
 
Rear Defogger
Rather simple just took apart, soaked some parts in Evaporust and others I stripped and repainted. The finish may not be exactly correct but in my opinion looks better.

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Below is US Cartools that I bought to roll the car around on.
Rgds,
Alan

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Here is the car on the way to our new downsized house. Where am I gonna put everything, lol.

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Arriving, was fun watching it "drive" down the road.

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Currently looking for someone local to take the car on for body work and paint, finding it a bit challenging. Will talk to a couple of shops next week before the Canadian long weekend Thanksgiving.
 
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First day of spring, thought I'd take a trip out to the shop.

Here she is sitting next to a rare Ford.

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Primered inside and out, bottom stripped of all undercoating (what was left) and primered.

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Just two little pin holes on the drivers side rear lower quarter.

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Well you can see the mistake from my youth, 5 spoiler leg support holes instead of 4. :brickwall: Will be welded instead of electrical tape being there.

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Driver's door, not bad, couple of small dings and a little damage from not having the door hinges do their job properly along the front edge of the door.

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Passengers door, one little ding and a dent that's been there since the late 80's, soon to be gone.

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Passenger fender, rust-free and nice shape.

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Driver's fender has a few more dings:

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The Hood, looking good, just some minor work, there's my cars notebook, outlining what we have discussed about the car and kind of a record log.

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Looking forward to this view as I have not been behind the wheel since 1992.

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Interior shot, some pin holes on the drivers side floor, not bad at all, also my AMD front and rear valences sitting inside.

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Have to figure how to treat the corner part that has had some rust damage near the bottom of the window.

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Blasting cleaned this area up better than I did.

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The three tape references say it all, not bad.

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The repairs have started!

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Common rust area, will be fixed right, passenger side lower windshield.
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Area previously stripped:
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The extent to any cowl damage, just some pinholes, again on the passengers side:
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Passenger fender was a little thin, needed a fix:
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Rear Quarter work:
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Lower rear quarter on the drivers side:
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Much needed rocker panel repair, drivers side:
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Right rear trunk lip area:
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After:
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Been wondering what was behind this rocker panel.
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Time to cut it out:
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So this is what we have:
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Cleaned up and primed:
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Template made for new hand crafted part:
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The new piece with 20 gauge metal:
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Before shot:
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Inside done:
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Coming together:
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Funny what gets uncovered, swore this was looking better (drivers side floor):
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Another patch made and fitted, like the detail:
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