Recent content by RUSTY Cuda

Those rivets are a sore spot with me, they wanted a fortune for those "special" rivets, I had a box of 1000 reg rivets from work I paid like 6 bucks for , I got the dash pad guy to through them in with the job for 20 bucks Yep just for 2. They both popped on installation & held nothing down, I...

I'm trying to remember how I got through stripping not one but 2 whole cars down to bare metal in my yard, hundreds of wire wheels, burnt out at least 2 drills, many many grinding pads & discs, broke one of the larger electric polisher/grinders & yet survived! No way I could do half of one car...

I think I used just dashes too, Had to trim around the A/C vents to finagle those in, but the top & front were otherwise very nice. Repro quarter skin on first car, side marker light was cut out wrong, drove back up to Conn. & the whole row of 6 or 7 were all cut the same way, took it to the...

Mark got an early (well for me) start, had the steering box in & started on the grille. Only problem (well so far) is the U-nuts on the new grill wee smaller than the old, so have to loosen a couple to try & get the u-nuts off the old grille on the new, tight space??? Paints still on, looks...

Dang, that metal looks pretty good?

Creep day! A tad cooler & less humid, so today was paint some garbage day. I forgot how slow the wire wheel process was when I started on the steering box! Oh yea, a little mission creep! Gave it about an hour, when mark showed up & said he really didn't care too much abut how it looked, so I...

sounds like a busy schedule, enjoy !

I think you have your own case of mission creep! 50ish year old stuff is full of surprises!

My bad, yes it's the gear box to be changed!

The job just got a tad bigger, now he's pulling much of the front end out to change the power steering pump! It started as him coming to fish the wires out of the old grille??? Also brough over some plastic bumper/shield pieces to paint! All we had to do to finish orig. job was set grill in...

I have a heat pump in the garage, too bad the jeep is under the tent behind the garage! The 'Cuda's comfie though!

So I get my butt up early to try & work on the jeep a bit, got out there at 8:30, usually about the time of my second dream. Well by 9 I'm already soaking in my own sweat! got the rest of the bolts out & scanned the harness that goes across the top, got a few of the clips loose & hit the...

Ohhh I like that, may steal the idea to clean mine up a little more!

Wow I'm old, lasted bout 2 hours, 1st 4 bolts were nice & easy right up top, after that every bolt was a battle, got 1/2 my tools out there already, Got bout 10 more out & started on 3 that will probably take an hour! no room to spin the wrenches, got those at least broken free & my arms had had...

My Buds choice, he may well repair it & sell it to get his money back?