1970 RS Project by aps63

5 minute(s) of a 120 minute read

Have decided to not go with the power windows for now.
So I cleaned up the regulators and will reinstall them this week.
While I had them out I decided to address another problem I had.
I have deluxe door panels but regular regulators so the window cranks brush up against the top door panel. I really didn't feel like spending a couple hundred dollars on new window regulators, so I went a differant route. The cranks I have are a 2 piece design.



So I took a piece of aluminum stock I had and made new inner pieces.
This should bring the window crank out about 1/4". Problem solved and it only cost me my time.





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After:

3-31-2014

I sometimes feel the same way.
Then I look at my before picture on GarageJournal.com
http://garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=189511
I promised myself it will never look like this again.
You know it's bad when your car is cleaner than your garage.

4-6-2014

While I had the doors apart I figured I would weld up the extra holes the guy before me drilled in the door. Can't think of why he would need them. They were not covered up by the mirrors. Another chance to practice my welding.

Before

After

4-7-2014

They were very oddly shaped holes, they were not really round.
The other side had even more holes.
I'm using bullet mirrors so the outer holes on both sides are out past the edges of the mirror base.

4-13-2014

I spent the day trying to fit the new fender I found on Craigs List to the car. WOW, nothing fits like the original. I could have spent half the time on the old fender and fixed it. Which is what I'm going to do. The new one just does not fit well, even after a ton of massaging.

4-23-2014

Started to pick away at the bondo on the lower fender. Much worse than I thought. The fender had a large rust hole in it and the guy before me just filled it with bondo. Glad I ordered the patch panel. The brace behind it looks to be in good shape but I'll see after I strip it down this weekend. Never did this kind of body work before but I'll try anything once.

5-3-2014

I only had a small amout of time for the fender today.
So I cut out the rusted section and ground out the ton of filler that was in and under the sheet metal. I'll hit it with some rust reformer and hopefully get the patch panel cut, fit, & tack welded in tomorrow.

6-24-2014

Finished up the fender this last weekend ChevyReb. I don't think it came out too bad for my first body repair.



I'm hoping to get it off the cradles this weekend and go for a shakedown ride. I need to align the front end so with that thought in mind I was going to but a DIY alignment kit like this one.



I just can't shell out the $400 bucks for it when I can build one myself, but more on that later.

6-29-2014

Had the car out over the weekend for it's first shake down run. Everything worked great. Small leak in the new power steering pump line, but a quick tighting of the fittings and problem solved.
Next on the list are the Hotchkis subframe connectors and handle bars.

8-24-2014

Beautiful day today so we went out and enjoyed the day and the car.
Don't feel like working on it today just driving it.