maanantai 29. lokakuuta 2018

Brake pedal and steering pole

Yo,

We've done something. I removed brake pedal and main cylinder, steering pole and cleaned out some wires.
The former owner had changed that brake cylinder from original to two circuit model. It has worked well, and has been probably lot better than original one. 😄
We will make front brakes to disc brakes, and add booster, if we can  fit it somewhere.

Brake pedal assembly

Main cylinder

Steering pole

Wire mess before cleaning it out

sunnuntai 21. lokakuuta 2018

Gauge panel and inner fenders

Hello!

It's been a while, because we've had a lot more things to do, but some progress has been made.

We took those inner fenders and radiator off. We need a new radiator, because this old one leaks a little, and it is anyway quite old, wrinkly and fragile. I thought to make it from some universal radiator, because it's little cheaper and quite easy to do.
Today I took a gauge panel and heater control panel out. All those plexiglasses have shattered over time, so we need to do something for them. We'll be wiser, when we peek inside gauge panel someday. 😊 Speedometer, fuel- and ammeter works very well. Oil pressure gauge also works, only pipe, that goes from engine block to gauge, broke few years ago, so i just put a plug on it, so it wasn't in use. Trip- and odometer and temperature gauge have never worked, so we need to fix those.

Naked face, radiator frame still hanging there.
Radiator back...
...and front
Gauge panel front...
...and back
Heater control panel is also a beautiful piece of good design.
Wires goes there

keskiviikko 3. lokakuuta 2018

Dashboard

Dashboard now decorates our garage wall. 😊

This one was little tricky to take, because all little this and that attached to it, and wires stick to everything. We also found two pennies hiding under the dash, somewhere near glove box. Still need to remove gauge panel nicely, and of course everything else. Radio itself is a one piece of art. It has always been broken. Few years ago, I took that old speaker out, and replaced it with two little better speakers, and wired them to radio, that I had in glove box. I think, I'll stay in same setting with this, only refine it to sound and work little better.
Next time, I think is good time to remove those inner fenders and else. See you then!

Sonomatic

Mess

Two of these bad boys were hiding under the dash.

tiistai 2. lokakuuta 2018

Pop the hood!

Howdy again!

Some progress has been made. We removed front fenders, hood, front doors and some other smaller parts. Car is still someway drivable, so we can move it to the garage and out, when necessary.

Everything is quite easy to remove, because everything is attached with nuts and bolts. We couldn't remove inner fenders yet, because they hold radiator frame up, and we didn't want to take radiator off yet. Front fenders are in pretty good shape, because mud and shit has protected the steel very well.

Let pictures speak more:
Dropped the grill 🍖
Drivers side fender
Popped the hood!

Little bit more

Knock, knock?