Andy H

Hej bil tjejen,Looks great to me, like the wheels.

Nice, I wish my bulkhead connector housings look that good, mine has been cooked to much and are al crispy. You can always add some relays for things like headlights and starter even without rewiring the whole car. I would like to know what you think about your new LED taillight bulbs when you are done and what brand they are, seems like every time i do a LED upgrade job (car or at the house) it turns in to a full on investigation to find something that looks the way i think it should.

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.

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.

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 🙂

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.

Installing hood hinge springs can be a pain but this worked pretty good.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Finished sanding the hood, sprayed with rust converter,let it sit over night,primered and painted.

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?

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.

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.

So the solid core should be just about zero because they are just a regular copper wire but most wires are of the resistance type usually to help with radio interference and such. Resistance wires are usually so many ohms per foot so a longer wire is more then a short one, 44 ohms sounds ok on that short wire. As far as pluggs i don't remember the resistance but I know there is resistance pluggs and none resistance pluggs also. How is your cap? And voltage to the coil?

Yes but I have had the switch appart and cleaned the contacts, if i disconnect the loads from the terminal on the switch i have full voltage. The power has to come through the firewall stock bulkhead connector also so the best would be to rewire the whole car but that's not happening right now but I think I have a solution it's called a relay 😄 I like relay's. I have a wire that I ran almost directly from the battery for future modern radio power in to the car so I figured I Will use this one and a relay and control it with the power from the ACC circuit.

Got the gauges hooked up except for the light, I'll get to that later. I have installed a Deutch 4 pin busbar connector on the ACC wire from the ignition switch before and had two empty slots so I figured I could use one for the power to the gauges to make it easier so I wouldn't have to run one more wire out to the engine bay. We'll didn't exactly go as I had hoped, turns out the voltage from there had a drop of almost one volt, comparing to alternator/ battery, doesn't matter so much for the other stuff that's connected to this but a volt meter won't show the correct voltage. So when cold it's charging about 14.5v but the gauge reads about a volt less, have to figure out room going to leave it or what.

Installing gauges today, last electrical for now then on to the front end of the car. I'll get back to the Inside later, plenty little stuff left before I can drive the car.

That shit will bring you down for sure 😞

Sounds like you need to grab a beer And find a air-conditioned space to hang out in😄

I know and it's so funny you see these discussions about electric fans be or not to be but if you do the math an electric can never move as much air. And the blades half way in to the shroud if possible. Yeah you know I think we all get that feeling sometimes when we don't make much progress or it doesn't move as fast as we think it should sometimes life gets in the way in one way or the other. Just keep picking away at it I guess.

Next the ac hoses, the way i had the low side hose from the compressor didn't work out,it was to short to be able to rotate the compressor freely to be able to adjust the belt so after a few back and forth my friend suggested way don't you kick the hose forward and then let it loop back to make it longer That only took two trips to the ac hose store to exchange fittings before i found some that worked and I liked, so after fitting the hose I took then back to get crimped and i figured that would be included when you buy the fittings WRONG that was another $100 so I think the hoses ended up about $300. So the car has a STV valve on the evaporator and the diaphragm was toast so I got a upgrade kit that basically eliminates it and turns it in to a cycling clutch system. You basically remove all the guts and install a stainless disc with a new gasket. Got it all wired up for the compressor, hooked up my gauges and sucked it down for an hour but didn't have time to charge it so it sat for a whole week with the gauges hooked up so next weekend I checked and it still held a vacuum. Vacuumed for another hour and put in to cans of R134 for now and it blows cold , the low side is only 10 psi so when it gets warmer outside I will have to recheck and probably put in some more.