Author Topic: 77 Cruising Wagon Build (Read 8431 times)

Reeves1 · « **Reply #30 on:** May 05, 2020, 06:24:39 AM »

Moving right along !

I've been working on the white car getting it ready for a drive.
Adjust the diff angle last fall - just finished adjusting the ladder bars.
Drained the old fuel & have to pick new fuel up from the city.

pinto_one · « **Reply #31 on:** May 05, 2020, 12:09:25 PM »

Good thats it getting done , this weekend I will drag mine out to clean it up , change oil and by october rolls in I pray all this coronaviriose sickness will be gone and hope Crusing the Coast here is not canceled ,

71pintoracer · « **Reply #32 on:** May 06, 2020, 03:58:05 PM »

Things are moving along pretty good! Good to see everyone else getting things done. I keep coming up with more and more ideas lol l might never get it finished if l don't stop! But I'm thinking about shaving the door handles.....mo lding in the side panels.....no windshield wipers and smoothing out and filling in the wiper arm holes in the cowl....

Reeves1 · « **Reply #33 on:** May 06, 2020, 04:44:52 PM »

In Canada you need wipers & defroster to pass a safety

71pintoracer · « **Reply #34 on:** May 06, 2020, 04:57:47 PM »

It will be registered as an antique. No state inspection required. I will have a heater/defroster though

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pinto_one · « **Reply #35 on:** May 07, 2020, 02:34:37 PM »

Heater and Defroster , yep , Me , I have to have my Air Conditioning here , Its hot in the south

71pintoracer · « **Reply #36 on:** May 07, 2020, 06:01:28 PM »

lol I hear ya! This car had a dealer installed A/C unit but I don't think I'm going to use it.

pinto_one · « **Reply #37 on:** May 08, 2020, 08:05:47 AM »

whatever you do do not toss the A/C unit , one day you may want to put it back in , finding a whole system is almost imposable , got a friend with a 78 looking for a factory system for his car , yep in the HOT part of the south ,

pinto_one · « **Reply #38 on:** May 08, 2020, 08:14:06 AM »

And forgot to say I did first look at your cruse wagon , Nope no A/C , and what trans was on the back of the V6 you pulled , C3 or C4 ,, the engine mounts and oil pan is worth keeping , somone might want to insall one in their pinto , have a great weekend , later

71pintoracer · « **Reply #39 on:** May 08, 2020, 06:23:13 PM »

No factory A/C, had a dealer installed unit. I don't plan on using it if anyone is interested I will sell it. No idea about the trans, scrapped everything.

Reeves1 · « **Reply #40 on:** May 10, 2020, 05:59:08 AM »

Wouldn't have an Mll pan laying around ?

I had one & gave it away (to Entropy ?).

71pintoracer · « **Reply #41 on:** May 10, 2020, 07:21:30 AM »

No sure don’t sorry

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71pintoracer · « **Reply #42 on:** May 10, 2020, 06:50:06 PM »

Cowl panel

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pinto_one · « **Reply #43 on:** May 11, 2020, 07:59:16 AM »

now you got the hard part done the rest should be easy , that is the most difficult spot to get to and fix , bet that area was packed with leaves and other rust causing crud .

71pintoracer · « **Reply #44 on:** May 12, 2020, 08:02:45 PM »

Man that was a project! Hats off to my brother the expert body man and fabricator he worked his butt off on that! And it really didn't have a lot of crud in there, (you're right, they usually do) the car sat in a dry building for 13 yeas then in my driveway for another 13, no trees around it at all. It just rusted around that vent. The passenger side is made different and it's solid.

warhead2 · « **Reply #45 on:** May 14, 2020, 07:48:29 AM »

Is that piece separate from the cowl like spot welded to it? Or was it cut?

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71pintoracer · « **Reply #46 on:** May 14, 2020, 08:02:32 AM »

Spot welds on the outermost edge, the rest was cut and then welded back together

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warhead2 · « **Reply #47 on:** May 14, 2020, 08:30:04 AM »

Wonder if you took the whole cowl off and welded a hinge for the side pieces of the cowl and use a body weld glue instead spot weld the side pieces to make it somewhat easier access for whatever you needed to get in there in the future. Also use seam sealer for where hinge is. Just a thought

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71pintoracer · « **Reply #48 on:** May 14, 2020, 08:40:26 AM »

That's a good thought, it's really difficult to clean them out. Hopefully this car will live indoors from now on and be a fair-weather driver!
lol

Reeves1 · « **Reply #49 on:** May 14, 2020, 05:28:16 PM »

On the 2 1972s that I've done there was over 100 spot welds.

After work was done & POR 15 used (I posted this I think in the Blue 72 Project) plus it will never be a daily driver ever again, it should last 100+ years.

Big job !

71pintoracer · « **Reply #50 on:** May 17, 2020, 06:12:18 PM »

A few more rust spots getting fixed

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71pintoracer · « **Reply #51 on:** May 17, 2020, 06:17:41 PM »

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71pintoracer · « **Reply #52 on:** May 17, 2020, 06:20:13 PM »

Fuel cell mounted so l don’t need this anymore

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warhead2 · « **Reply #53 on:** May 17, 2020, 06:31:06 PM »

That bondo looks like the same guy that did mine lol.
Had a spot the was almost 1/2 thick.

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71pintoracer · « **Reply #54 on:** May 17, 2020, 06:36:32 PM »

lol right! Haha hard to tell how long it's been there it actually held up pretty good! But now it all has to come out

71pintoracer · « **Reply #55 on:** May 20, 2020, 11:36:31 AM »

In between other things I rebuilt the heater case using parts from three different cars. The original had been modified somewhat because of the dealer installed a/c that I’m not reusing. New heater core, new foam on the doors and even though you won’t be able to see it l still painted it.

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