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Welcome to my world as a restorer, we have to muck around with this stuff everyday. And people wonder why it takes so many hours to put a car together when it only took a week to take it apart!coomo wrote:Thought I was the only crazy one, chashing mm here and there.Sometimes,you have to sit back then realise these cars didnt fit this well when they left the factory.Its the only way to reconcile, the voices in your head!Gary71 wrote:Spent a little time on it and I think we have a fix, it’s nearly there, I’m going to have to stop or it’s going to annoy me!
To resolve the mismatch I ‘dressed’ (i.e hit it with a block of wood) the 1/4 window flange to gain 1mm. The rest came from trimming the door trim profile to the window frame. The clips don’t work then so the rear three have been replaced with 3M tape. The gap isn’t parallel, and it looks different from every angle, but there is genuinely nothing I can do about that one!
Totally agree, the bumper trim is 5xM5 nuts. Just bolt it on… 2 hours later…DustyM wrote: Welcome to my world as a restorer, we have to muck around with this stuff everyday. And people wonder why it takes so many hours to put a car together when it only took a week to take it apart!
A minute or two to take those trims off, a couple of hours to get them back on correctly, or in the case of those bumper trims, a mornings work.
As said above we are trying to restore these cars to a fit and finish in excess of how they left the factory because that's where peoples expectations lie in our modern world.
DustyM wrote:Welcome to my world as a restorer, we have to muck around with this stuff everyday. And people wonder why it takes so many hours to put a car together when it only took a week to take it apart!coomo wrote:Thought I was the only crazy one, chashing mm here and there.Sometimes,you have to sit back then realise these cars didnt fit this well when they left the factory.Its the only way to reconcile, the voices in your head!Gary71 wrote:Spent a little time on it and I think we have a fix, it’s nearly there, I’m going to have to stop or it’s going to annoy me!
To resolve the mismatch I ‘dressed’ (i.e hit it with a block of wood) the 1/4 window flange to gain 1mm. The rest came from trimming the door trim profile to the window frame. The clips don’t work then so the rear three have been replaced with 3M tape. The gap isn’t parallel, and it looks different from every angle, but there is genuinely nothing I can do about that one!
A minute or two to take those trims off, a couple of hours to get them back on correctly, or in the case of those bumper trims, a mornings work.
As said above we are trying to restore these cars to a fit and finish in excess of how they left the factory because that's where peoples expectations lie in our modern world.
Ha thought no one would notice! Fortunately is only resting.Actually once bolted down it fits really well,for a home cobbled part!Gary71 wrote:Is this a good time to tell you the grille doesn’t fit
I’ll get my coat
OEM or pattern.Not that OEM guarantees anything cept, more numbers on your invoice!RobFrost wrote:I just spent two full weekends fitting a bonnet and it's not right.
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Yup been there done that.However, take some solice that one of the Pelican guys, bought factory RS rear bumper quarters to save time havingGary71 wrote:I forget sometimes the hours already in these parts. One of the 1/4 bumpers on my car was pretty much scratch built by the time I’d done all the repairs. That it’s still the right shape I regard as a miracle!
The centre panel has had about 6hrs of my work, 2 from Barry and untold from the paint guys. Probably would have been cheaper to buy a new one…
Dunno but it fitted before it came off.coomo wrote:OEM or pattern.Not that OEM guarantees anything cept, more numbers on your invoice!RobFrost wrote:I just spent two full weekends fitting a bonnet and it's not right.
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Just a trick that I use to make sure that everything goes back precisely in the original position - I drill small holes through the mounting flanges or brackets before I remove the panels, even in panels that get scrapped so I can re-check their original positions....RobFrost wrote:Dunno but it fitted before it came off.coomo wrote:OEM or pattern.Not that OEM guarantees anything cept, more numbers on your invoice!RobFrost wrote:I just spent two full weekends fitting a bonnet and it's not right.
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