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Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 8:59 pm
by mrs ratbox
only thing i don't like with filling that line is the same as utes when people fill the line where the sills meet the 1/4 i always just get the impression it's bogged up
just one of those silly things roaming around in my head
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:11 pm
by Sputzwagon
Not to worry Mick..
I can always tell when they're bogged (they get cracked after a very short time
)..that said..MINE WONT!
It being a 'mild Custom' there will be a few lines removed..for '
smoothness' & the custom 'mustache mould' around the grill will be the welded to the guards & bonnet ..so the seam would look wrong if I left it.
Plus the 'mustache mould' will be the same colour as the body making it a 'more than Standard..Standard'. Colud never work out why Holden gave 'em a chrome grill and moulds when they removed the chrome from the headlight rims, tail lights & front windscreen strips??
Go figure?
Scotty.
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:40 pm
by mrs ratbox
will be good to see what you do with the mustache eyebrow grille area i've always had ideas for that general area
how about a drawing
got to get another car now
as it won't go with the one i have, if people would stop bidding on the one on ebay i'll have my next victim
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:53 pm
by Sputzwagon
I've drawn it a few times but it looks like normal (sort of), what i have in mind is the bonnet bar to be like an FB's (badgeless.."we donn need no stinking BADGES!"
) except with the sharp line like an EK's (no flat bit).
As for the ends they'll be same as an EK's but without the indicators (so they'll flow with the grill opening) then into the original (painted) bottom grill mould.
Scotty.
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:09 am
by mrs ratbox
good it's different to my idea
everytime somebody mentions an idea they have on mods i get a little sfinkter tightening hoping it's different to my ideas
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:40 am
by Stygian
ratbox wrote:... i get a little sfinkter tightening...
It's spelt "sphincter" ratbox
Dig your spelling dude...
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:08 pm
by Sputzwagon
Edna Blueflash wrote:ratbox wrote:... i get a little sfinkter tightening...
It's spelt "sphincter" ratbox
Dig your spelling dude...
Yeah Mick..it's spelt with a PH as in "Phuking Phunny"
Good to hear I'm not going to rain on your parade 'Ratus Boxious'..now go back to EvilBay and buy that spare EK then go custom on it!
Scotty.
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:15 pm
by mrs ratbox
i do know how most things are spelt
but a combination of lazyness and think it gets the point across better with a slight comical twist is what i end up typing
should have seen some of the words i seen today i have no idea where to even start to think what they said
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 12:51 pm
by Sputzwagon
Only have a one day off this weekend..so I don't have a lot of time to spend on the EK..I was just about to re-assemble the driver's side guard when I thought to check the play on the accelerator linkage..good thing too as it had a heap of free movement!
I un-clipped it and it had the inevitable 1/2 warn out groove on both ends
, note: no photo of this as I started before I realized I should have taken the photo..er..sorry..
Out with the welder and zap some new steel in it..
them grind, file, wet'n'dry & metal polish it..
a bit of paint & grease then back on the car..
no more free play
Scotty.
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 1:01 pm
by my70wg
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:34 pm
by Sputzwagon
Too true, Aidan!!
I've been giving the little
Makita hell recently!
But geeze it's nice to operate a throttle without 'freeplay'.
Scotty.
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:07 pm
by Sputzwagon
Well trust me to open my big mouth..and say the driver's side was the worst
..Finally got the guard off the passengers side (after spending ALL morning trying to undo the top inside guard bolt ..the bloody thing was over tight'nd so a conventional socket just slipped around the top..the fix was a cheap 1/4" drive 3/8"th socket with the end cut off!
).
Anyhoo ..after removing the guard I found the area was all bog!! Looks like someone was more into doing a quick fix for rego than actually fixing the problem and inserted a piece of sponge to shape bog around it
!!!(see photo #1
..and here is what was left when I removed the bog...
..but fear not..Scotty'll fix it today to & it'll be back to steel in no time..(and much safer too!
Scotty.
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:39 pm
by Sputzwagon
Amazing what a day can make..I've finished the outer and 1/2 finished the inner...it'll be nice to know I've got steel instead of sponge & bog!
Scotty.
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:51 pm
by Blacky
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:03 pm
by Harko
Damn , No period newspapers
