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post Nov 1 2021, 08:52 AM
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The next thing I unboxed was the climate controls. Years of grime and dirt and dried grease. Overall it was in pretty good shape though.

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post Nov 1 2021, 08:56 AM
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One thing I did find is that it appears there is a piece missing from the upper slide control. There are 3 detents on the top of the unit and what looks like two mounting holes on the slide, which lead me to believe that there should be something that slides into these detents, Can anyone tell my if this is the case?

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post Nov 1 2021, 08:59 AM
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So I spent about an hour dis-assembling parts of the control unit, cleaning and re-lubing all of the slides and cables. and cleaning all of the electrical contacts.

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post Nov 1 2021, 09:02 AM
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Then re-assebled the clean product. Everything seems to work much better. Still need to find out about the detent issue on the top slide and obtain parts if necessary.

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post Nov 1 2021, 09:11 AM
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Cleaned up the passenger side B pillar trim, couldn't find the driver's side, must be hiding in another box somewhere...

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post Nov 1 2021, 09:14 AM
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Then cleaned and checked the center console. Hooked the clock up to my wifes car battery and low and behold it works...yeah.

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post Nov 1 2021, 09:17 AM
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To finish up the weekend, I cleaned the entire guage cluster. To include dis-assembling the guages, cleaning inside and repainting the needles etc. Also changed all of the cluster lights to LEDs

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post Nov 1 2021, 10:11 AM
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Welcome to Texas. I had to look up Mineola, wasn't familiar with it. We retired and moved here from Michigan last December, now down in New Braunfels. Lovin' it!
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post Nov 1 2021, 02:02 PM
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Welcome to Texas. I had to look up Mineola, wasn't familiar with it. We retired and moved here from Michigan last December, now down in New Braunfels. Lovin' it!


Thanks Steve, wish we were closer.
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post Nov 3 2021, 03:23 PM
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Since today was a rainy and cold I decided to lift the car onto the rotisserie. I left in on the rolling cart and started lifting first at one end then the other, 5 inches at a time.

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post Nov 3 2021, 03:25 PM
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Only had 20 inches to get it onto the mounts

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post Nov 3 2021, 03:27 PM
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Then after getting it onto the rotisserie had to remove all of the lifting block materials and the rolling cart





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post Nov 3 2021, 03:30 PM
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And some 5 hours after starting, Its finally on the rotisserie, a day I wasn't sure I'd ever see. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)


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post Nov 3 2021, 04:38 PM
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I feel ya on this.. I did kinda the same song and dance, raising the car a little at a time until it was in place. Took more effort than I expected. I may add a lifting/lowering mechanism of some type, would probably be easy enough.


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post Nov 3 2021, 07:18 PM
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QUOTE(Puebloswatcop @ Nov 3 2021, 03:30 PM) *

And some 5 hours after starting, Its finally on the rotisserie, a day I wasn't sure I'd ever see. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)


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Now you can look forward to the day it comes off! Mine was on the rotisserie 6 months.
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post Nov 4 2021, 07:43 AM
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QUOTE(bkrantz @ Nov 3 2021, 06:18 PM) *

QUOTE(Puebloswatcop @ Nov 3 2021, 03:30 PM) *

And some 5 hours after starting, Its finally on the rotisserie, a day I wasn't sure I'd ever see. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)


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Now you can look forward to the day it comes off! Mine was on the rotisserie 6 months.



Yes Bob, I was already out there planning new work strategy. I think I need to go get a white board like you used, that will help keep me on track.
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QUOTE(Literati914 @ Nov 3 2021, 03:38 PM) *

I feel ya on this.. I did kinda the same song and dance, raising the car a little at a time until it was in place. Took more effort than I expected. I may add a lifting/lowering mechanism of some type, would probably be easy enough.


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Wouldnt have been so bad, but it was raining outside so I couldnt back the Hot Rod out of the garage....wife told me if my car touched that hot rod I was a dead man...lol...kinda wanted to live to work on my car....

Yeah I think I will try to find a different way of raising it when I do the second twin. Maybe a maintenance lift or something....
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post Nov 4 2021, 04:41 PM
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So today was spent stripping the undercoating from the car. I had started doing that in Colorado, but will be much happier now that I dont have to lay underneath it to get the job done.

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At least some of it was already done, but there are places where it is about a quater of an inch thick

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The good thing is the engine compartment is pretty much scrapped clean where it had undercoating. Does anyone have any pointers though on removing the glue that was used to hold in the pad on the firewall?

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