Washed it for the British car show this Sunday. My machinist buddy came by and dropped off my new stainless ignition resistor cover, I think it came out excellent!
Now over to Clint's to help with some wiring projects.
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Washed it for the British car show this Sunday. My machinist buddy came by and dropped off my new stainless ignition resistor cover, I think it came out excellent!
Now over to Clint's to help with some wiring projects.
Jon
1981 DMC-12 #02100. July 1981. 5-speed, black, grooved w/flap.
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Originally Posted by jawn101
Washed it for the British car show this Sunday. My machinist buddy came by and dropped off my new stainless ignition resistor cover, I think it came out excellent!
Now over to Clint's to help with some wiring projects.
Wow! That is awesome! Is this purely a one off? Would he do more? Not sure if I'm truly interested, but it looks awesome.
David Proehl
Location: Olathe, KS
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+ 1 I'd be interested in one
Andy Lien
VIN 11596 Jan 1982 build - owned since Nov. 2000!
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Photography and Backpacking is life.
Was Fargo, ND
Now Kansas City
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Good news then, I had him make you one too. They are hand done in stainless and I commissioned 2 since Clint doesn't have a resistor anymore.
Haha, OK! I'll start a new thread tonight and see if more people want them and I'll order up a batch.
Jon
1981 DMC-12 #02100. July 1981. 5-speed, black, grooved w/flap.
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+1 I might be in for one too.
Cheers.
Steve
Cheers
Steven Maguire
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Went for a drive in the D. It may be just the suggestion that the poly sway bar bushings helped....But it sure seems better. Less steering wheel vibration.
Location: County Donegal, Ireland
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Got my new tyres all fitted at last. Holding on to the originals for now!
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Add me to the list Jon. I'll keep an eye out for the new thread.
Sept. 81, auto, black interior
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Thread started!
http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?39...6830#post56830
Post your "I'm interested" replies there so I can get a solid count of how many we might want to put together
Jon
1981 DMC-12 #02100. July 1981. 5-speed, black, grooved w/flap.
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Location: Minnesota
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Did a little bit more real work today.
Reinstalled the freshly painted windshield trim panels. Reinstalled the outer weatherstripping around the windshield. Trimmed back the main headliner fabric which have been wicking water since I installed them in 2004, whoops.
Started cleaning the body under the windshield cowl with lacquer thinner. This rubs off the paint on the fiberglass leaving a semi-gloss finish of the gelcoat. Learned this trick from Dave Swingle on my engine rebuild thread back on .com. Then I ran out of lacquer thinner.
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Also pulled off the drivers door vapor barrier to find an OEM window regulator! I had this door apart in 2002 or 2004 and I could have SWORE the regulator had been replaced with an A1. What is even more amazing I that the plastic elbow is still completely intact. The only thing wrong is a small section of spread worm gear guide which is easily repairable. Anybody looking for a good condition OEM drivers side window regulator?
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Also performed a "wedgectomy" on one of the latches. This removes a section of plastic whose only purpose seems to be to intentionally prevent of latches from locking when the doors are open. I already did this to the passenger latches a few weeks ago and it works great!
Latch before procedure...
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Latch after procedure...
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Sorry about the random rotation.
Jim Reeve
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