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Andy H

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Andy H last won the day on December 26 2022

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    Orange county CA
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    old cars and street rods

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    Anders
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    Male
  • Year
    1964
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    Pontiac Lemans
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    2d ht
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    350
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    Coupe
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    White

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  1. Managed to get my helper out of the house to help me install the bumper, way to heavy and awkward to do by yourself. He's not real interested unfortunately but he will come and help if I ask. I cleaned up the grills but need to touch up the paint on those and I'm waiting to get the nose piece back from my friend.
  2. Thank you 😆 I had the same problem writing and posting the last pictures on my phone, thought I had lost the whole thing twice before i was able to save it. I believe it was my friend that sent me something along the same lines with the springs but initially I just put them up in the jack so I could spread them and get some paint in between the coils . And since my hinges are still off the car I figured why not, I posted this somewhere else and of course I got 15 other suggestions on how this should be done 🙄😁 . Slow is the word not as steady as I would like but don't exactly have a deadline, main problem is motivation and dealing with whatever whether is presented on my driveway 😄 Right now I'm running up against how far to go since I don't plan on painting the car at least not right now but finding myself wanting to touch paint up here and there because I would really have liked everything to be perfect but in that case the car would never become running and driving it is probably the best motivator there is.
  3. I have been at it a little longer than you on mine but from what i can see you are making good progress, I'll be checking in on yours to see what you are up to 🙂
  4. Front bumper painted on inside. Got all the seals behind the bumper figured out and installed, I guess this is an A/C car thing. Got all the bondo stripped of the nose piece for the front of the car and a friend is going to straighten it out My trans pan was leaking, old steel pan and probably didn't have the best gasket either so I bought a cast aluminum one, probably china made but looked pretty good and came with this reusable silicon gasket with a steel inlay In for less than $50 at AutoZone, Started looking at tires and the idea was to use 246/60-15 at least in the rear but was not sure they were going to fit in the front so I only got two for starters to test fit, tested in the front and tight turns left side hit on the fender opening at the bottom rear so I'm thinking 235s in the front but think I'm going to wait until I get bumper and hood on to see if it gets worse. In the rear I was pretty sure there was not going to be a problem and they fit but I could barley get my hand in between tire and fender at the top especially on the right side so will test again later on with four people in the car to make sure it's ok.
  5. Installing hood hinge springs can be a pain but this worked pretty good.
  6. 300A and it's hidden on the inner fender and I'll put a switch inside the car hidden somewhere, I'll be a good anti theft device at the same time. I use a lot of these at work and the bistable function works really good.
  7. I think anything past five years on a battery is just a bonus but keeping it charged up sure helps. I think i need to get myself a new battery charger also. I installed this 300A bistanle relay to disconnect the battery so we will have to see how much that helps
  8. I picked the first battery because it was black and would look like it belonged and when they showed me the replacement 🤮 so I couldn't leave it as it was.
  9. I have two friends that work for car private car collectors and all their cars have battery tenders hooked up to then all the time.
  10. The battery that i got for the car less than a year ago took a dump, would not hold a charge so it had 24 month warranty so they gave me a new one. The new one has a green top🤬🤮 looks out of place in an old car so i fixed it with som plastic bumper paint that I had.
  11. Worked on getting the shields installed at the front inside where the bumper goes and figuring out how all the rubber pieces are supposed to go. Since this is a factory A/C car there's quite a few of them and all of it wasn't there when I took it apart. this one goes in front below the radiator and there's supposed to be a rubber lip attached the it nu my kit didn't come with one so I'll have to install the bumper and figure out how big it's supposed to be and make one.
  12. Finished sanding the hood, sprayed with rust converter,let it sit over night,primered and painted.
  13. I would make to much of a mess at my house for my neighbors to like it I'm afraid 😆 What about warping? And how did you get all the sand out from in-between the panels?
  14. Not bad, since i soaked it in citric acid for a week before but some spots didn't get submerged so I got to work on those a bit. Was thinking of getting some Eastwood rust converter and spray that on first when I'm done sanding like I did on the frame and after that some self etching primer before I paint with Por 15.
  15. It's been raining quite a bit, some places apparently got more than 10" of rain so have not gotten much done. Attended the Grand national roadster show last weekend in Pomona,got lucky that day with no rain. Gott a little time to install my relay for the voltmeter today and also started on the inside of the hood.
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