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It still needs them. You can. Add bracing to these cars but not take any away.

thank you. it will look a lot cleaner

Yup that's why I said it was too far back. It's easy to get into the habit of making tight gaps like modern cars and not notice you have slid it past the edge of the rocker. The. There is another method that many do and that is to make the fender to rocker very tight which makes the door gaps nice and tight and no one notices that little jog at the rocker. But then again they really weren't too worried about it at the factory when they built them. Perfect was not in their vocabulary and there wasn't the time or technology to do it back then on the line.

Yes keep larger gaps. Everything was designed with much larger traps than modern cars. The door fender and hood gaps should be between 3/16 and 1/4 and o usually the rocker to door gap will be even larger some cars are close to 1/2”. Also your front lower valance is “twisted” because your drivers fender is so far forward. It’s very important to keep building the entire car as one unit before actually cutting and moving metal

@@trahar6257 Yup been preaching that for a long time. The front valance is crooked but not noticeable unless you are pedantic like I can be at times. I did some measuring and compared it to a factory one. The fender only had 1/8 of room to go rearward and that factory fender is in the scrap pile (to be used for repair other fenders) now after I actually looked it over. I have never liked the rocker to door gap on these cars. I can weld on a filler rod and tighten it up and make it look better but it's not worth the time for me. Course I have done way more GM than Fords and overall the fitment is much better on the GM. That said the 67-68+ mustangs were much better and the aftermarket parts for them fit far better than the 5-6. The 5-6 it's a race to the bottom to have the cheapest parts to sell so quality suffers.

I would t say that. For the price they sell at they are excellent and far better than a flat piece of steel. Think of panels today. A factory panel from the dealer fits perfect. An after market is a fraction of the price and fits ok. Now remember that the aftermarket company also had to build their own dies from just copying an original and no access to original drawings. We will always complain about the aftermarket panels. Especially when it's just minor tweaks that need to be done. I wish they would fix some of the errors that the original panels had.

They do but they don't make the stuff like was used years ago that had an almost Play-Doh consistency like was used in the quarters under the quarter windows and other places with big areas to fill. No need for that type on modern cars

@@theinfernalcraftsman sure they do

It is a chief from Harbor freight. I was looking at them for a while and got lucky and it was $50 open box at a sidewalk sale back when they had real sidewalk sales. Good tool and I don't use my regular one anymore. Northern tool used to sell it as well. The same one is sold on Amazon for 125. There is also an aircat one and their tools are usually pretty good as well. There are smaller ones that use 3" wheels but I have not used them. The chief uses 4" wheels and it's a far beefier tool than the smaller one. It has allot of torque and cuts even when I am impatient and don't wait for the pressure to come up all the way.

Nice. The ones I had were the really old ones that haven't been made in years for a reason... They were not even close to the right shape but the new ones fit far better.

Part 3 won't be until I get the body work done on the car and get the car back on it's wheels again.

Thanks

There are clips that hold the shield onto the goggles. They are hard to see in there because it's tight and dark but once you figure it out it pops off pretty easily.

I didn't have to cut any of the hoses. It was a direct drop in replacement for everything on the original gasoline side.

Awesome. I have thought about pinning it with dowel pins if it was an issue. As in steel dowel pins like used on machinery. Course the factory stuff always feels a little disconcerting with the movement it has

That sounds like what I have mine mounted to. The handle is also removable so it can be pulled by the mower

It's dual fuel and technically tri fuel if you have a way to supply it natural gas. For me gasoline is a fuel of last resort in generators. No issues with bad fuel or gummed up carbs etc with propane. And during a power outage you most likely won't have access to gasoline as the pumps will be down.

Wypall has an endless selection of wipes. The hard part is finding one you like. I actually found some paper towels in Greece that were perfect and really cheap for a massive roll but not easy to get home.

Will do. It's a great place. Only bad part is I always seem to have to come home. Great weather there year round as well.

Exactly and it's really really easy to just weld quarters on then realize what you missed. One of those just didn't think about it at the time problems. I have lots of those...

Yes still need another 2 tons of ac and more insulation.

The ones I used are 532187292. I bought them at the sears outlet stores when they were closing and got them really cheap. There are many that you can make work. Though I would recommend using something like a FWD car hub instead as they are much stronger. But I was being cheap and it fit the purpose on a light weight car body.

Yup sound deadener makes for a far quieter car. And easy to put in while the quarter is off. Nearly impossible later. The factory used a spray on material similar to 3m shutz

The rear wheel houses are really hot or miss on fitment. The dynacorn ones tend to fit well. But the cheap ones out there seem like they are using the old 1980s stampings and don't fit much anything.

Thanks. I'd allmost screw this stuff together for the next sucker/guy. Same them the extra work to get apart. My rockers are barley there on the end. Oh well. The inner wells when they arrive//guess I allready said/probably a waste of money /but the inch or 2 or 3 where it's welded to the flat trunk thing/ then ea.end. My friends think I'm an idiot for fooling with this junk. Probably .Ha!

@@stevepope5484 You will get there. Spend the time to replace the stuff deeper in. Sometimes you can repair it with new steel but if you don't you will know what's hiding in there and it will come back to haunt you. But do it right and you will be happy with the end result and sleep well at night knowing nothing is hiding in there

Thanks again!

I wouldn't build it for anyone else just due to liability reasons. It's fit for my purpose but may not be for someone else.

@@theinfernalcraftsman is that tubing 1 1/2" ?

@benharper1682 It's 2" medium wall square tube 1.5 would be smaller than I would be comfortable using.

I would estimate you would loose around 2500 watts when running off propane and a little more off of natural gas. But just a guess going by other brands that have numbers on it. That said I don't know if the numbers anyone lists for output on any fuel can be trusted. Kind of like air output of air compressors. Who knows ...

Awesome. If I come up with anything to give you I'll drop it off with my friend over at Xenia hotel close to where waffle House used to be. We havent bought our plane tickets but are getting close. Late September. Holding off cause one of our cats has had some issues and want to make sure he is ok. We never did the sun beds we usually get an ATV and check out the villages etc. I want to stay in mountsaona or somewhere else this time. My friend lives on the north end of the island 300 meters from the water and may stay up there instead. No plans till we get plane and ferry tickets. Prices are much lower this year.

@@theinfernalcraftsman We are real beach bums. We always stay in Prokopios. We have been here about 10-12 times in 22 years, but only ever rented a car once, for one day, and drove up the north , then north to south down the middle of the island and back up the coast to Prokopios. We do tend to take the bus to Chora one time each visit. We did that a couple of days ago :)

@RotarySMP There is a cool corundum mine in Koronos that is wide open. Just walk in. I'll see if I can find an email for you and send pics . Lots of cool places to go on the island.

@@RotarySMP Couldn't find an email for you. Send me one on my channel name and I'll send you a link with the pics of the places around the island we go to. The hike up to Zeuses cave is a tough hike for us old folks. The first time we walked from the bus stop in town down the wrong road then up to the caves. I can't make that hike anymore.

@@theinfernalcraftsman Where the hell have YT hidden our email addresses? they used to be on the channel "about" page, but that is gone, then there was a "business inquiry" button, and that is gone.

Ford. You just use 2 short axles from the explorer. This rear was bought primarily for the 3.42 gears and the short axle.

Wow! Thanks!

Awesome. They are often not removed. There are two different gaskets for them. A leather one and a rubber type one they used. It's a question of which do you trust more to not leak. I'm Ok with either style.

@@theinfernalcraftsman I honestly don’t remember which ones I used. I would tend to believe I would have went with the rubber ones, but not sure.

Made them up out of thin air. All just a guess on what I thought would work. Now I wish it was a little higher for working underneath but then would be too high to work on the top .

Thanks. Sadly I didn't start filming until later in the project. I wish I had filmed when I replaced everything forward of the firewall including the floor supports.

US made just a easy to miss alignment issue when it was jigged for welding. It's a nice heavy piece and looking forward to getting the car off the body cart and on the ground.

Maybe