Recent content by chally71e

I'm pretty sure my car has that issue. I took I to mean 1...

I have a couple of patch sections to replace on my roof skin, towards the lap seam with quarter on driver and passenger side. Long shot, but I know a few people have swapped out roof skins recently. Figured I would see if anyone would cut and sell me sections from your scrap parts. It doesn't...

Before I got crazy with a dremel I'd think about letting the hood wear in by opening and shutting it a bunch.

Hmm you considered shutting that hood a gazillion times? Letting it wear in?

Looks like the striker is bent/not straight...

Here is another pic. If I clamp the cowl down more it will be at an angle. I'm currently wondering if I can bend the a'pillar up in the inside.

Working on drivers pillar. I got it into place where it needs to be for glass/trim and aligned with the holes in the cowl side panel. It however leaves about .5" of space between the flat section of upper cowl/firewall/top of a pillar. I was working on clamping the replacement cowl down and...

Yeah I intend to do that, just heard mention of others say their aftermarket panels are too long, or too short so figured I'd post up my results too. Today I played around with prying it left or right against the quarter and was able to get it dialed it. When it gets welded/clamped I bet it...

Figured I'd post up for search results. So i learned my aftermarket panel is like .5 mm off in side to side length compared to the factory one. It also sat proud of the quarters. It kept bothering me, so I finally really dug into it. The mating flange on the qtr ends of the new dutchman/upper...

Parts Hound does ebody harness checks/rebuilds with new connectors, wires and wrap if necessary. I cannot speak to the veracity/quality of the work though. But honestly I'd strongly think about going that way instead of keeping a bunch of splices in the dash likely to burn down my car.

WTB

Can someone measure their dutchman panel/upper trunk filler panel for me? And the measurement between quarters up near this area?? It's looking like my replacement dutchman is kind of short, but I don't want to start just cranking away on the flanges to get them together. Thanks!

Its funny back in the day most of the time one skipped the TV commercials. Not the trunk monkey commercials though, they were epic.

I saw this video the other day. He talked about gluing the roof and why. That being said I wiould still stick with the NVH instead of a glue to accomplish the same thing. Starts at 5 min in video.

Yes, very good point. I guess one would just have to evaluate condition to say. Anything that looks like a big collision, probably pass on.