Wilma FB project

[Errol62]

Looks like you got it nice and wet

FB ute driver, EK van project

[Brett027]

Thanks Clay and Tim.
Fiddly day again today. Repairing window winder runners and mucking about with passenger front door vent/quarter window.
Replacing nylon runners is a straightforward job once you figure out to rub the sides of the rollers a bit before closing the rivet. Otherwise they are too tight against the axle and won't run. As Harv says-"ask me how I know". Ground off the back of the rivet, punched it out, new roller and rivet in and burred the back over. Easy as.
Second job was first of the 2 quarter vent window refurbishments. Stole some nice chrome windows from the good ute. New rubber, paint and new lock handles and pins to go in. Not sure yet what I'm going to use for rivets to put it back together. Maybe pop rivets.
Took no chances and cut the spring loaded nut off the shaft rather than risk breaking it. Pictures tell the story so far. Ho hum for those who have done it, maybe useful for someone thinking about it
Will put it back together tomorrow when the paint dries on the frame.


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[Errol62]

Great work. You can get the rivets on line. In the past I have left them intact and bent the frame up at the top, sliding the window up and out to the side.

Clinker grey paint?

FB ute driver, EK van project

[Blacky]

Quarter windows are a pain in the butt - but never a big enough pain in the butt to not have them - invaluable for demisting purposes in winter and air cond in summer

[Errol62]

I remember when HQ came out and didn’t have them.
Was a shock. I was just getting my Ls, but I’d already joined the Escort club. 32c and you’re a member... My memory’s pretty good for an old bugger. I only smoke after sex now so no danger there... boom boom.


FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

[Brett027]

Not happy. My Better Auto rubber was total @!#$. Had to drive to Rares and get two proper ones. 1st photo Better rubber, 2nd Rares. They were crinkled in the bag, but I was hopeful.

More work today cleaning up and painting driver's side front and both rears. Put together tomorrow. Locks next.

Can't procrastinate much longer, going to have to block and buff Wilma soon.

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[Brett027]

PS: Thanks for livening up my story Clay with mental images of your sex life. A Bex and a lie down needed.

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[Blacky]

nice job on the quarter windows, I might have to send you mine to do

[Brett027]

No way Blacky .

I've got 4 more to do on utes and don't know where I'm going to get some good chrome frames for the last two. Rares rubbers were a breeze so I know which rubbers I'll be using. It seems to me that FB bonnet bars and these chrome quarter vent windows are major limiting factors in getting a tidy car on the road.

[Errol62]

Sorry...
Been wondering what was in Bex. Disappointing. As is the window rubber. All those little jobs are very important, and the cut and polish will happen when it does. Something I approach with trepidation.


FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

[Brett027]

He he. It needed a bit of spice Clay. Interesting 9% caffeine content. No wonder Gran liked it. Who knows what Phenacetin is

[62ekute]

phenacetin will do your kidneys in or give you cancer - banned a while back

[Brett027]

Wow, what an informed mob we are. Thanks Patrick.

[ardiesse]

Phenacetin: one of the first non-opioid analgesics developed, by our friends at Bayer in the late 1880s.

After phenacetin is absorbed into the body, it is broken down. Most of the time, the product is paracetamol (which relieves pain). But there's a low yield of a potent carcinogen. It took a loong time for the statistical link between Bex and cancer to be uncovered, which led to the withdrawal of phenacetin from most markets. But the primary bad side-effect is that phenacetin causes kidney failure. Just ask Howard Hughes.

So - not nice at all.

Bex-equivalents now have the phenacetin replaced by paracetamol. Much lower cancer risk.

Source: Wikipedia. Where else?

Rob

[Brett027]

Mucking about with heater, ashtray and radio today with view to putting front seat back in tomorrow.
I got a fine Diamond Dot radio from Sunny Tim but am stuck on the aerial connection. Rather than the normal push in set up, it has a bayonet type socket. Does anyone have the right plug spare?

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