Andy H

9 minutes ago, Andy H said:

Slowly stated on the paint,cleaned up the inside of the

before I put on the hood.

Removed the funny looking beltline moulding that someone had installed and plugged up the rivet holes with bondo and touch up paint.

Got a hold of these little washer nuts for the heater cables, could have gotten them from Ames or OPGI for a small fortune but found the generic model at McMastercarr instead and they worked good.

Probably won't get much done this weekend because we're going to Bakersfield for street rod Nationals tomorrow morning but maybe Sunday.

Ohh yeah bought this Poppy's patina stuff I'm going to try for the paint, we'll have to see how that works out.

 

Slowly stated on the paint,cleaned up the inside of the

before I put on the hood.

Removed the funny looking beltline moulding that someone had installed and plugged up the rivet holes with bondo and touch up paint.

Got a hold of these little washer nuts for the heater cables, could have gotten them from Ames or OPGI for a small fortune but found the generic model at McMastercarr instead and they worked good.

Probably won't get much done this weekend because we're going to Bakersfield for street rod Nationals tomorrow morning but maybe Sunday.

Ohh yeah bought this Poppy's patina stuff I'm going to try for the paint, we'll have to see how that works out.

On 4/23/2024 at 5:03 AM, 64 kiwi boni said:

Mate , just finished the Heineken factory experience 🍺😊👍😜been there for 4 hours 👍🍺think we need to eat !!! 

Or I think the boss is gona be falling over 

What a trip, awesome,have no idea what kind of jetlag you get out of one of those trips, the longest o have done is 9hr difference.

You coming back through LA? Saturday's at the Donut shop in Huntington Beach is a must if you're in the area.

Safe travels 

21 hours ago, bilflicka said:

This is Edna🥰 she's not perfect but we have a good time!

62 Cat❤️

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

17 hours ago, Fitzy said:

It's important to have a scapegoat - this one's called Frosty! So...is that you closest to the other Goat?

Had a bit of a day today. I thought I'd start with the easiest electrics which is anything behind the rear seat. All I had to do was clean the various bulb contacts and shine up the little spring loaded pin that provides the juice to the globe. I did the reverse lights, number plate light and the stop/tail/indicators. Oh, and I fitted my spanky new red LED bulbs. I need to check the fuel gauge sender unit earth to ensure it's a good contact and the back of the car is sorted. Then I threw myself into the engine bay. I pulled apart and then meticulously cleaned the bulkhead connectors. I can't see a need to rewire if everything already works. I figure as long as all connection points are clean & tight and that the wire ends are in the same clean condition, shit should work. Whilst in there, I cleaned up the horn wires, blower motor wire and oil pressure & temp gauge lines. I also cleaned up the wiper wires and neatened everything so that it is all virtually hidden. I drilled a small hole under the blower motor housing and routed the right hand engine bay wires through there to avoid having them snake around the firewall. I enclosed whatever I could in split tubing conduit and am pretty happy with the result.

Will fit LED flasher can and front indicator LEDs tomorrow. The rat's nest under the dash is the job that's gonna take a little time. I'll post extra pics tomorrow.

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.

19 hours ago, B52bombardier1 said:

Very nice.  You are so much further along than I am on my build.

 

Rick

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 🙂

1 hour ago, Frosty said:

I have battery tenders on all my cars except my daily driver. They work fine.

However, time is still not kind to batteries. They can still sulphate or drop a cell due to age alone.  I had that happen last spring with my Roadmaster. When I got the car from my dad's estate 5 years ago, I took care of it. The car also came with a spare battery. I hooked up both on their own battery tenders. However, last spring the car battery dropped a cell and wouldn't start. Same thing happened to the spare. Both batteries were well over 8 years old, long past any warranty and useful life of a typical battery. I ended up junking 2 batteries and buying a new Optima.

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 

11 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

ewww! so glad you sprayed that battery top Andy ! wayy to green !

i write the date and where i bought each of my battery from on the top of all now ! justA because i have so many that fail before they are out of warranty !!

This includes batteries that get cycled every day like the one in my work van, i have had 2 fail within warranty period ! over the life of this lastest van ( 8 years old) 

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.

10 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

ewww! so glad you sprayed that battery top Andy ! wayy to green !

i write the date and where i bought each of my battery from on the top of all now ! justA because i have so many that fail before they are out of warranty !!

This includes batteries that get cycled every day like the one in my work van, i have had 2 fail within warranty period ! over the life of this lastest van ( 8 years old) 

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.

16 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

when i did mine i sand basted it , then used the crc rust converter then etch prime👍

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?

7 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

fun job !!! 

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?

53 minutes ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

Sounds like your ignition switch has a dirty contact/tab conection  to the acc mate, but that also means possible 1 volt drop to other circuts off thats ignition too !

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.