Here's the upper trim attached That black stuff is a rubber strip which pads the glass from the channel, a gasket couldn't be used, the gaps will be filled with a rubber strip and urethane, it will be water tight.
Here's the rubber I'm using. That's masking tape on the stainless bottom trim, it's welded to a fabricated filler piece which will be painted body color.
Here's the filler piece, it has a drain hole in it which will have a rubber hose directing water out of the body. The bed trim will cover the ugliness.
I have to make a parcel shelf from scratch, I don't know what I wanna do, maybe tuck and rolled, maybe a squiggle formica pattern with diner table banding, I dunno.. This was a hell of a lot of work.
The trim looks nice, I hope mine goes back together as well as that. Where did you get the new clips and the rubber for under the trim on the back window.. I took mine out this weekend and most of the clips are junk. I also had the felt/rubber piece under the roof trim, not sure why. Did you consider a hole directly into the bed to drain, instead of a tube through the quarter panel, I am looking at that on mine because the drain tubes are stupid. On the package tray, I'm going to Louver a panel for mine. I did this on my Stude and it looked good. Food for thought.
Will it's a straight shot down to the rockers, there are slits cut into the rockers to drain water out from the factory, the replacements don't but I can cut them in, there will just be a small half inch hole the hose will come out of. I got the clips on ebay, they're the same as for Impalas, the rubber I got from a place called Skycraft in Orlando, it's just a generic molding that's the right width, I couldn't use the factory gasket. There shouldn't be anything under the trim on your Elky, someone musta put it there. I'm not gonna put the cab roof molding on until I'm done painting the roof, it still needs a few more coats of clear.
The clips along the bottom (only) were the shorter ones for a 55 6 7 back window clips. That's how it ended up working for mine. Otherwise the moldings weren't pulled in towards the rubber, close enough. The sides and top were the 59 clips I had. That make sense? Prolly not
Just started on my ford F1 pickup and discovered that the entire truck was covered for some reason with a half of inch to a full inch of bondo on every single body panel on the truck. So far, I have 8 hours stripping, removing bondo and removing rust on just the cab and my garage looks like it snowed in there. Why would anyone do such a thing? -WD
There are people that believe you have to cover a vehicle with a skim coat no matter what... I don't get it, and I really can't fathom why people do it in places that get cold like where I live, the filler expands and contracts so much it will cleave right off of the body.
The idea is perpetuated by the shows on TV like Boyd Coddington's guys on American Hot Rod. They'd slather a couple of gallons of filler on every car and he had people with more money than brains lining up to over pay for their butchered cars.
I laid down my Dyna Glide, bruised ribs, busted leg, then I went on a cruise, a rock n roll cruise at that, got a really bad chest cold and have made no progress. It hurts to cough. I'll report back when I'm feeling a bit better.
I just read the entire thread and I cant wait to see the rest of the story. Nice work...Subscribed Don't post much, but read a lot...
Somebody did that to the rockers in my 66 Coronet before I got hold of it. I dunno what they were thinking... Maybe so it would float better during water crossings?
My mum bought a brand new 74 Chev 3/4 ton and it started to crack in the first year, turns out the drivers rear fender was full of bondo... from new... figure that one out.
I'm fine, the leg was rashed and has still got a nasty bump, it's on the shin, the same one I dropped a 5 gallon bucket of roofing tar on in November. The bike only suffered a bent turn signal. I'll be OK by next week. Me bohat gadha hoon!
Hey Mr. Nads! Here's the pics you asked for. I made two of what you see here. One for the front, one for the back. You can see where I welded in a strip to make up the space on the raised portion of the bumper support. Now I need make a trip to the hardware sto'! Get me some grade 8 bolts and that. Once it's painted you'll never ever notice it!
Thank you so much. I'm doing my valances now, boy are they straight, I found some good sets, I'll have painted soon.
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