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Archive: September 2022

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Raising the Roof (again)

The vinyl headliner and trim sheets are curled around the edges and peeled back. When left alone for a couple of months, it hangs down a few inches below the edges of the rear side windows and looks really nasty from the outside. I bought some rubber cement a few months back a...

Key and Rekey

One of the first projects I took on was to buy new door handles (Amazon link). Neither door lock worked when I got the car. The key would fit in the driver's door, but wasn't keyed the same. The passenger side was frozen solid and wouldn't even allow the key to be inserted. Wh...

More Junk...

I was able to get the brake torn back apart and replaced the wheel cylinder again. That's the remnants of the bleeder screw in the bottom. I bled the brakes all around and then adjusted them. It now has a great pedal, about 2/3 of a pedal, which is as good as it has ever been....

The End of the Rear Brake Saga Begins

Foreshadowing in the title, there... Now that the rear brake had been gushing fluid for nearly a month, inside of that brake drum was a mess. I didn't snap a picture before hosing it down with brake cleaner. It was awful in there. A thick black, sludgy, fuzzy (?) mess. This pi...