Other things keep getting in the way of my Lemans restoration. I ended up spending some time getting my Roadmaster wagon in running order. It seems my girl friend wants to bring her new dog with her and the dog wants to stand on his hind legs and put his front legs on the wood trim on my M45. Well this isn't going to happen so I need my old beat up Wagon to run. Changed the steering box and had to replace the steering shaft with a Borgeson custom made shaft since parts are no longer available from GM. I had about 3 inches of play in the steering wheel due to a failed rag joint and worn out steering box.
I have been trying to get everything I need to install the door and window glass. After stripping the purple tint and cleaning the door glass, I'm not happy with the amount of scratches on the glass. So new glass is in order. I picked up new door glass and quarter window glass from AMD. I also ordered new rollers after finding one of them was cracked. So I'm waiting on parts to be delivered.
Door Assembly. I got the power window installed. The glass is the old. The window works fine. The aftermarket power conversion moves the glass quite fast. Much faster than I remember power windows working on 60's cars.
Quarter window.
Cleaned up the frame.
This is lightly cleaned with a conditioning pad and clear coated.
Stripped the inner fenders. They cleaned up nicely but I ended up doing some straighting on one of the inner fenders. One of the attachment points looks to have been torn off.
Missing attachment point.
Made a clean cut and a pattern.
transfer pattern to scrap metal.
Cut the patch. You don't need a cutter like this to make the patch. The yellow handle cutter is more than adequate to cut the patch.
Patch in place. I used a copper backing plate for this weld since the metal seems to be pitted and thin.
The patch was difficult to weld even with the copper backing plate. The other weld beads are where I repaired cracks in the metal.
Inner fenders degreased, hung and ready for paint.
Painted with Epoxy Chassis Shield.
