So, I found this heap while driving home with a for sale sign $1,000, offered $800 cash and brought it home. P.O. told me about the blower not working, SES intermittently and the ABS light. No surprises. Dexfool, yep. Back door handle broke, all stories we've heard before.
No, the bull bar was not a factory option. The P.O. installed it as the guy before him rear ended someone.
It was almost a dead square hit but with rust on the core support broke them both.
I'll weld that and I have the grill, hood, bumper and cover from my '97 to swap on.
I'll use other goodies like the ladder rack and interior walls and ceiling. (1/4" ply with FRP laminate) I'll grab some other parts before I call the wreckers.
My first day wrenching on the Wench.
I'm starting with the front end and that core support. I just moved into this house and can't find a thing I need. It took me all day to get 2, 1/8" plates welded under the core support.
I haven't gotten to the "face" inverted t shape yet, just the plate that is on the bottom. I loosened the middle and jacked the body from the top of the core support. The pass side capture nut was toast so I made a new one. I had a couple new body mounts handy so those got used. I needed juice for the plasma to cut the 1/8" steel so I had to make a 220v extension cord.
I'm amazed I found those body-mounts and 220v plug in amongst the piles of unpacked boxes...
While that was going on I gave my wife some lessons on the riding mower so she could cut the lawn, moved the gutter drains, edged with the push mower and after she finished I spent a 1/2 hour cleaning what she missed.
2, 4" x 18" pieces of steel and I'm exhausted,,, getting old I guess.
While I have the grill off I'm thinking to replace the condenser, I think it has been holed. Is there a way to test other than putting in the stuff with dye? there is a leak. P.O. put in 2 cans and there is no pressure at the Schrader valve.
No, the bull bar was not a factory option. The P.O. installed it as the guy before him rear ended someone.
It was almost a dead square hit but with rust on the core support broke them both.
I'll weld that and I have the grill, hood, bumper and cover from my '97 to swap on.
I'll use other goodies like the ladder rack and interior walls and ceiling. (1/4" ply with FRP laminate) I'll grab some other parts before I call the wreckers.
My first day wrenching on the Wench.
I'm starting with the front end and that core support. I just moved into this house and can't find a thing I need. It took me all day to get 2, 1/8" plates welded under the core support.
I haven't gotten to the "face" inverted t shape yet, just the plate that is on the bottom. I loosened the middle and jacked the body from the top of the core support. The pass side capture nut was toast so I made a new one. I had a couple new body mounts handy so those got used. I needed juice for the plasma to cut the 1/8" steel so I had to make a 220v extension cord.
I'm amazed I found those body-mounts and 220v plug in amongst the piles of unpacked boxes...
While that was going on I gave my wife some lessons on the riding mower so she could cut the lawn, moved the gutter drains, edged with the push mower and after she finished I spent a 1/2 hour cleaning what she missed.
2, 4" x 18" pieces of steel and I'm exhausted,,, getting old I guess.
While I have the grill off I'm thinking to replace the condenser, I think it has been holed. Is there a way to test other than putting in the stuff with dye? there is a leak. P.O. put in 2 cans and there is no pressure at the Schrader valve.