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Several things happened yesterday.
The inside door skins that we cut a couple days ago got bead-rolled and attached to the doors with Kleekoes. I still need to figure out what I'm gonna do for actuators, so I couldn't rivet them in just yet. Lucky me, the Kleekoes will prevent the doors' being able to close. That would stink if they accidentally shut in their present condition.
We also ran the tubing for the emergency brake cables as they run off the back of the handle. There's a smallish gap between the firewall, the crossmember and the tunnel, and it's just big enough to fish these tubes through so that's what we did. In its old form, my car's cable runs were so hackneyed that the cables needed replacemet every year or so. Not anymore. Jim made an inspection cover for the point where the tubes go from the front of the firewall through to the back; I didn't really see what he wanted that for at first, but it's growing on me.
We also put the shocks on the rear (just pro tem; Jim wanted to see how the torsion adjustment looked in relation to the axle.).
The gap above the floor pans in the back of the interior has been bugging me for months, so we fixed that yesterday, too. We made cardboard templates of the available space, subtracted three-eights of an inch and cut the panels out of sheet metal with the plasma cutter. They slipped right in and the welds were unremarkable.
The inside door skins that we cut a couple days ago got bead-rolled and attached to the doors with Kleekoes. I still need to figure out what I'm gonna do for actuators, so I couldn't rivet them in just yet. Lucky me, the Kleekoes will prevent the doors' being able to close. That would stink if they accidentally shut in their present condition.
We also ran the tubing for the emergency brake cables as they run off the back of the handle. There's a smallish gap between the firewall, the crossmember and the tunnel, and it's just big enough to fish these tubes through so that's what we did. In its old form, my car's cable runs were so hackneyed that the cables needed replacemet every year or so. Not anymore. Jim made an inspection cover for the point where the tubes go from the front of the firewall through to the back; I didn't really see what he wanted that for at first, but it's growing on me.
We also put the shocks on the rear (just pro tem; Jim wanted to see how the torsion adjustment looked in relation to the axle.).
The gap above the floor pans in the back of the interior has been bugging me for months, so we fixed that yesterday, too. We made cardboard templates of the available space, subtracted three-eights of an inch and cut the panels out of sheet metal with the plasma cutter. They slipped right in and the welds were unremarkable.
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Cory: In the event you don't figure out your door actuator challenge, remember, as I recall, the Dukes of Hazard never used their doors.
Am I the only one who has noticed that Cory completed the above scope of work in the same amount of time it has taken me to replace my coil?
Yeah, but you can DRIVE your car now! (LOL)
Ok, I gotta ask - what the hell is a kleeko?
They're the spring-loaded copper or brass doodads people use to keep sheet metal panels in place temporarily. When you're done, you pull them out with these quirky little pliers that pinch a spring inside the Kleeko, and it comes out in exactly the same way that rivets don't.
Basically, it's like a placeholder. They're re-usable, and you can take panels off after final fitting of complax corners and such, get your framework powdercoated or painted and then use rivets through the same places.
Voila! No more drilling rivets out of rough-stage work!
This is the best example I've got; we had to take the tonneau's backbone off the car eight or nine times to make the curve correctly:
Basically, it's like a placeholder. They're re-usable, and you can take panels off after final fitting of complax corners and such, get your framework powdercoated or painted and then use rivets through the same places.
Voila! No more drilling rivets out of rough-stage work!
This is the best example I've got; we had to take the tonneau's backbone off the car eight or nine times to make the curve correctly:
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I wonder if those Kleekos would work on keeping my neighbor's dog in his yard?
I always wondered what those things were called. Thanks for the elucidation, professor!
Professor. Riiiiight. How about that spelling skill, Tom? "Complax" corners ... AUUUGH!
But Lane, Kleekoes might be useful in keeping said doggie's butt from dispensing poo in your yard, huh? Strategic application of the ... heh, heh ... What a visual.
But Lane, Kleekoes might be useful in keeping said doggie's butt from dispensing poo in your yard, huh? Strategic application of the ... heh, heh ... What a visual.