Rust E?

[MoparBoy72]

Thanks Mark

I had some time after the Thanksgiving holiday and set out to remake a set of oil tank buffers (911.207.307.00) on my 3d printer for the "E". Another Early S member had made some but I could not find the thread. This was a nice project to try and get the ball rolling again. After a few tweaks these printed out reasonably well and I was able to cross one small item off my list.

[MoparBoy72]

New year with new goals. I have two goals, the goal to actually begin reassembly and the goal to complete assembly. My living room will thank me.

Progress on the first goal:

Another cleaning of body shop dust. Fixed the dash vinyl with a little contact adhesive. I did some light touch up on the door black out masking in the upper lock area where the original had been masked. I cleaned up the driver’s side foot well, a light surface rust was present from the master cylinder failing (you know over ten years ago). Scuffed and painted with a POR15 like product.

As I have been cleaning I have noticed green overspray on some rubber trim. Leading me to believe that early in its life there was some kind of repair, maybe a low speed parking lot event. There is no green overspray on the makeshift fuel vapor tank (74+ type) in the left wheel well but there is red overspray on it. In addition one of the banjo horns in missing with the wiring harness just hung bare. Not to mention the front bumper trim being changed out to the larger “S” type trim. I am still trying to put these clues together.

There is red overspray certainly a chore to clean off parts. I have been working to clean and reuse as many original parts as possible. I was able to refit the smugglers box lid after spending about an hour cleaning the red paint out of the multiple folds in the lids’ seal. I was quite surprised at the resiliency of the seal. My main tools for this were a plastic razor blade and some 3M adhesive remover where needed.

I do enjoy finding all of the date codes on the original parts which seem to mostly be 3.72 for a 4.72 built chassis.

My next steps are some masking/painting the interior for the black out paint at the seat rails and center tunnel. Once this is done I will need to plan for the chassis black out. I have seen many different takes on this and luckily one a “sister” car to mine was at auction on BaT (9112200726 and there were a significant amount photos taken. I have used these along with many others I had collected over the years to work on formulating a plan on what to paint and where (chassis wise).

PS- As time allows I plan to fix some of the older linked files which had been hosted elsewhere to be hosted on this site.

[MoparBoy72]

Lots of cleaning over the past few weeks. It is amazing where over spray can reach. I have been reviewing a few small detail parts which I had removed and was curious about their originality.

(photos are seemingly in a mixed order)

#1

Strips of black fiber board under the batteries, these were under each battery, like little skids.

#2

Fabric (maybe nylon) tape on the sheet metal of the fresh air vent, possibly masking the opening to be black or maybe helping seal the opening somehow. My reference photo shows that this tape had red over spray on it meaning it was on my car for a good period of time.

#2a

Looking at an older parts diagram I noticed that there is a "spacer" (901-559-491-20) called out in the area of the fresh air vent. this looks to support the grille mesh in the center points. I found a seller online who looks to sell a modern version, this looks to just be a piece of black foam. If so does anyone have the dimensions or a photos showing the original in place?

Thank you,

-Andrew