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Speaking of nice - the AC box held together this time!
The wires pass
underneath it freely in that channel too - bolt it up and call it good! |
Begin FOUR DAYS of looking for where I put the metal squirrel cage fan.
It was here in the garage, I've put it somewhere clever.
Found the
spare AC box, it's got a plastic fan but it's damaged.
(No, the metal
one is in a box in the attic. That's not clever at all.) | |
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Sandblast and paint. Let's make it pretty before we put it where
nobody will see it. |
(Not pictured: The fan bottoms out in the housing.
Where did I
put the spacer? At least that's where I would have expected) | |
| With the AC box mounted and the fan attached, I can clean up
the pass fender and get it painted on the inside too. So I did.
And I took no photos. It was the same as the driver's: rust,
bad repairs, now additional bad repairs. |
It lines up... poorly.
This is with a big stack of shims at the
top AND at the bottom, and it's still not right. | |
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Even after additional finagling. |
Also it's too far forward at the bottom.
I expect I"ll be taking
this back off for additional work.
(also I can't run a bracket to the
core support to help hold the computer in place as it tucks up inside this
rather than being accessible. | |
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I put the header panel on. It fit, mostly, but the car is slightly too
large for the garage -- I have to squeeze past the nose to unlock the door,
and this sticks out too far... so I've pulled it back off. It needed
cleaned up on the inside anyway. |
As I lay on my back trying to get the fender to line up better, I happened to have looked back towards the back of the car and was struck by how much room for more tire there was!
And it's true - there's about 3 inches from the outer edge of the pass
rear tire to the outside of the fenderwell. | |
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Unfortunately that doesn't hold true for the driver's side: the body is not
square to the frame. |
So I loosened all the body mount bolts, and tried to pry the body over.
That accomplished nothing. | |
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I've got a ratchet strap, what on the body can I
attach to to pull against?
Maybe this beefy tie-down ring in the bed? |
Wrap it around, so it's pulling the frame that way.
Yeah, raise
your hand if you see what's coming. | |
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And now I need to repair the tie-down ring, and the body hasn't moved at
all. |
I had realized that I don't have an *accessible* bung for the wideband
O2 sensor - the front one on the driver's header is too close to the frame
to thread anything into.
Added a new bung here, and as you can tell,
I wasn't replaced with an alien replicant with some skill at welding (so I
guess that's good news?) | |