I got a call from Classic Coachworks - they picked up the hood last Friday to do some spot welding, straightening and filling in the cracks (now reinforced by the welds). The price? Pizza!! I'm sending 8 pies there on Friday when I pick up the hood. This maybe the place to take Faulkner for the taillight fixup, this, that, and the other thing... Will post pix if I have a chance before I leave for the mountains this weekend.
Faulkner wrote: ↑Sat Jun 02, 2018 11:45 pm
Just the one [hood bolt] stripped, Dick - the one I pried out of there, I was able to back out the snapped bolt. Funny, the nut threads look fine! Perhaps the bolt was of softer metal - I'll see if I can snug a short bolt in it.
So, the hood mounts to the hinges with four inboard studs, and four outboard bolts. One of the inboard studs had been replaced with a bolt - I'll make a stud from a bolt and put a burr in it for a stop. Why am I anal about this, when my interior will not be original?! Go figure.
All four studs and all four bolts screw into nuts whose edges are peened into the hood frame. For one of the four outboard bolts, the hole is stripped. I might be able to tap it to the next size thread, or I could just drill it out and replace with a bolt. Prolly would never know.
Faulkner wrote: ↑Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:19 pm
I got a call from Classic Coachworks - they picked up the hood last Friday to do some spot welding, straightening and filling in the cracks (now reinforced by the welds). The price? Pizza!! I'm sending 8 pies there on Friday when I pick up the hood. This maybe the place to take Faulkner for the taillight fixup, this, that, and the other thing... Will post pix if I have a chance before I leave for the mountains this weekend.
Well, I would have had the chance, if Dick hadn't backed Bertha Irene over that Comcast cable and knocked out the Northeast internets. But we seem to have recovered, so I'll post the pix now.
Classic Coachworks, Upper Darby, PAA shot of the shop - that's Scott eating my pizza in the upper left corner! Not a bad deal, for me. Faulkner's hood is standing up to the rightI should have taken a close up of the topside repairs to the cracks, from the broken spot welds. Top notch!The bend to the corner is *gone*!"Reunited... and it feels so good"perfect spot welds, no flex in the lip bracket nowWhere Scott tapped out the bend in the hood
Not yet, Mark - but I'm thinking about taking Faulkner to Classic Coach, where I could actually drive it without bumpers and lights. It's a couple blocks from my house, on side streets. I expect I will pay more, but I will get more... We will see.
Some before pixA poor man's bead blaster - a brass wheel on my old man's grinderA work in progress...closer...The finished deal!I'll let this dry, close the hinge to expose unpainted areas, then flip and repeat
No looseness at all in the pivots - very solid hinges. Just, too close to the firewall! My body man speculated that when driving by the Braille method, the collision the Sterling girls had (the front clip was replaced) pushed the hinges ever so slightly into the firewall. If so, it's imperceptible, but the hood is too close to the cowl. Some of Ed Ober's shims to the rescue when I put the hood back on!
Faulkner wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 10:44 pm
Dick also alerted me to a pair of Chebby antennas on eBay which I snatched up before my Carlisle score, thinking I could adapt them; and it turns out, the masts are the same size as Plymouths - 5/16" in diameter... However, the Plymouth antennas extend to 63" or thereabouts; the Chebbies, only 43". They would do in a pinch. But surely, someone makes antenna masts of longer length that could be adapted. No?
In the interest of helping me spend my retirement nest egg, Dick found them on eBay! And because I do everything Dick tells me to do, I bought them:
I saw that it had been posted back in September! I'm still surprised that you found it - unless you fell asleep with your finger on the "next page" button.
While the Keijs are here, I'm hoping to get the hood back on the hinges, even if not properly aligned - I can fiddle with that. So yesterday I painted the underside of the hood, with less than pleasing results; I should have sanded it after I had wire-brushed it (including the remnants of the previous hood pad). And Matthew graciously pointed out that I had painted it in the wrong color - it should be gray or argent. And because I do everything Matthew tells me to do, I took today as an opportunity for a redo while they are in New York.
After sanding, before paintingAfter paintingNew Goers hood pad placed for perimeter check
It just so happens I had argent paint - I won't be needing it, since I plan on painting the wheels bronze Before I laid the pad down, I used a Yuengling Timer* (I thought of you, Mark!) to make sure the paint was dry.
*Yuengling - the Official Timer of the '59 Plymouth Forum
But we seem to have recovered, so I'll post the pix now.
Before I laid the pad down, I used a Yuengling Timer* (I thought of you, Mark!) to make sure the paint was dry.