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Offline MaskNMI

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Re: My 84 Wagon project
« Reply #180 on: November 26, 2010, 08:29:34 PM »
you sure do some nice work juhap, nice looking car
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Re: My 84 Wagon project
« Reply #181 on: November 27, 2010, 01:35:04 AM »
The Hatch of Sport Wagon needed some work before it would be ready for Limited Wagon. First its lower part soaked in citricacid for several days to get rid of rust.

Welding...





Some lead added...







Now it needs body filler and some paint.






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Re: My 84 Wagon project
« Reply #182 on: November 27, 2010, 08:32:25 AM »
What kind of container do you soak parts that large in?  Looks like it is coming along nicely.
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Re: My 84 Wagon project
« Reply #183 on: November 27, 2010, 02:24:44 PM »
It ain´t nothing much... Just two 7/8"x6" headboards (from my old bed) nailed together straight angle. And couple of pieces of 1/4" plywood as head pieces. No pics so far. There was a piece of plastic film inside of that "container". Amount of acid is only about 1.5 liters! Cost is about 1 euro! (1,4 $)

I have an electrolysis tank made of old board (taken of my scrapped barn) and 1/4" round ironbars (leftovers from my homeproject) and of course plastic film inside. I have used this when I did rearaxle (Eagle and another AMC 35 with Aussie locker) rust removals. It is not suitable for citricacid because it takes so much of that "medicine"... But when I use caustic soda cost is about 2 euros!!

EDIT:

I found a pic of another electrolysis tank for smaller parts... pic has shown here before. Here is just a link...

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/JuhaP/autot/IMG_4620.jpg
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Re: My 84 Wagon project
« Reply #184 on: November 27, 2010, 02:32:59 PM »
Thanks Juhap.  I need to build some tanks one of these days.
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Re: My 84 Wagon project
« Reply #185 on: November 28, 2010, 02:23:25 PM »
I started steering colomn job a couple of days ago. First thing to do was paint stripping of those Chevy parts. It needed only paint thinner... After that little sanding and then it was time for plastic primer.



 And then paint...



After that it was time to modify -81 Sport steering column similar as Chevy so that newer AMC blinker switch can work.

It needed an opening.



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Re: My 84 Wagon project
« Reply #186 on: December 16, 2010, 03:17:44 PM »
Not being here for a long time... Hmm... what has happened...

Bad paint... there were a lot of silicon spray under new paint. It needed many tries to get it right..





What else?

I sprayed a couple of spraycans of underbody coating (wax) on rear axle area. After that I did final assembly of leaf springs, stabilizer bar and axle. I found Monroe rear shocks of Monroe leveling system, that is not automatic system...  Only modification to get Nissan parts to fit was changing lower grommets. And then I tried to modify one trailer hitch to Eagle, but that didn´t fit at all.

I have made a couple of orders from APD with my friend. During next weekend I´m going to get them home, so I can start final assembly. Rear brake drums are still missing and defogger switch and... and...
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Re: My 84 Wagon project
« Reply #187 on: December 16, 2010, 11:14:47 PM »
Impressive Work - egg for you!
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Re: My 84 Wagon project
« Reply #188 on: December 17, 2010, 08:16:57 AM »
Nice work!
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Re: My 84 Wagon project
« Reply #189 on: December 17, 2010, 10:43:50 AM »
Great work.  Keep it up. 
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Re: My 84 Wagon project
« Reply #190 on: December 17, 2010, 11:36:54 AM »
Thank you of those kind words...

Here are pics of Nissan Cedric (84 and on) shocks... that old gas tank is on its place just for mock up... I´m gonna get new one tomorrow...  ;D And new brakes too...



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Re: My 84 Wagon project
« Reply #191 on: December 18, 2010, 12:44:00 PM »
New gas tank and another box full of parts...  ;D These parts came from APD in few days, but finnish customs kept them about a week and finnish post needed another week to get them from Customs to my friend (distance was under 100 kms! 60 miles!). Talking about quality deliveries...  >:D






New mirror is not exactly the same, but close enough...

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Re: My 84 Wagon project
« Reply #192 on: December 18, 2010, 05:34:11 PM »
Was the mirror supposed to be like original equipment or a general replacement?  Nothing like fresh new parts. Did customs get some more money from you?
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Re: My 84 Wagon project
« Reply #193 on: December 18, 2010, 06:20:36 PM »
I take it they drained all the moonshine from the gas tank  ;D
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Re: My 84 Wagon project
« Reply #194 on: December 24, 2010, 06:47:56 AM »
Started a couple of days ago rear brake job... Found out that I hadn´t bought new brake shoes. I bought Jeep ones. Then I noticed that years ago I had cleaned all brake parts, parking brake levers, struts, anchor plates and such, but I did not paint them. So they went to citricacid bath again. I have to use old self adjuster parts because I forgot to buy new ones! And so on... And all paint and cleaning jobs are made in very cold garage, outside there is almost 30 Celsius degrees below zero...

New rear drums are the next problem... Old ones are dead and there are no substitutes... Jeep drums maybe... Money flies....
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