Memorial Day, Hot Dog, and Ford

So I had a retired flag from the front yard (one hangs out front year round) hanging in the garage and thought this was a good moment captured for Memorial Day.  We were dead from the work the previous day.  I felt like I had done a string of crossfit workouts.  We scuffed the doors and put down a second coat of pant and decided to keep going by replacing the rear brake shoes and hooking up the emergency cables.  After the yoga mat adhesive failure, I grabbed some black silicon that I had in a chauk tube and affixed the panels back to there position.  They aren't moving now.

Baptism is over, get to work

Had to go to a Baptism on Saturday (glad to be there!) and still had Sunday and Monday to work on the truck.  Alaina and I got busy sanding down the doors and door panels, something that I discovered that Alaina doesn't care for.  We got one coat of paint on and then I jumped on rebuilding the "wind wings" (as I knew them growing up) or window vents as some call them.  Wasn't to bad of a project and only took 1.5 hours for the first one and 30 minutes for the second one.

Door Dings

The doors dinged me.  I look like I have been attack by Edward Scissor Hands.  When working on the doors I recommend that you put some tape on the door access portal.  The edge of it is sharp and it appears that it won't be a problem, but it is like sticking your hand in a razor blade hole.  Removing the black channel below doesn't seem to be a likely culprit of pain and agony, but it was.  The rubber had grown very fond of its home and took me about an hour per door to get it removed.  It broke into pieces and flew everywhere.  Cost of this channel 41 cents per inch, need 109" per door.  Seriously!?

Friday Night Madness

Things got outta control on a Friday night.  I got home a little early and attacked the final treatment of the door jams with 2 coats of clear.  Then after the paint had time to dry Alaina and I decided to take on the windshield install.  Having learned from the back window that the rubber doesn't like to cooperate when pushed against steel, we used a little Vaseline on the lip of the seal.  When we roped it in, it went in pretty smooth.  All said it took us about 20 minutes to install.  Then I discovered one little corner of chrome didn't make its way into the groove. :-( I jimmied it in the best I could and gave up.  Can't hardly notice it but it irritates me that it took 20 minutes to do the install and fixing the chrome took a hour and a half.  We laid in the carpet and fire wall cover in so they could form to their environment.

Downward Dog vs. Upward Roof

It was a beautiful day in Fort Worth.  This is the weather everyone begs for.  Good thing too.  Patience was side dish that came with the weather as I almost lost mine.  The windshield was not one of  Henry Fords better ideas.  I am still wondering how the heck they put these damn things together on the line.  After struggling for 2 hours, we managed to get the rubber and chrome on the window.  Side note accomplishments were painting, and destroying a yoga mat. 

I did the following in the roof of my F'er today.  I am absolutely stunned at how well it worked to stop the roof from sounding like a tin can.    I did a ton of reading and though I thought my idea might work, I must admit, I didn't think it would work this good!  Wish I had done this to the back wall of my cab instead of the peel and seal.  It will be what I do to the doors!

Expanded foam PVC yoga mats come in many colors.  To do this right and really knock the sound down, pink works best. 

Materials needed

1. small paint roller
2. razor knife
3. 10" x 10' Aluminum Flashing ($9)
4. 1 cheap PVC Yoga mat  (My wife hasn't missed it yet)
5. Contact cement use for counter tops. ($9)
6. Glove
7. Rolling pin

Process:

1. Lay out flashing on yoga mat to mark area to be glued.
2. Apply glue to the Aluminum and the yoga mat and let dry for 15 min.
3. CAREFULLY lay the aluminum on the yoga mat and roll with rolling pin.
4. Trim excess and repeat until all flashing is covered.
5. Cut into 26" lengths
6. Using one of the pieces to be glued, mark the roof for the glue areas needed.

7. Apply glue to the yoga mat side of the panel and the roof, dry for 15 mins then smooth the panel on     with pressure of a gloved hand.

Peel and Seal

Good 'ol Peel and Seal roof patch.  It doubles as a sound barrier!  I also installed the cap for the dash to repair all the cracks and such.  So far it looks like I will have a quite ride with a nice dash.

What's Next?

I put the wiper motor and pivot points back in the fire wall.  The door jam paint wasn't quite dry due to the damn cold weather.  Alaina came out and said "What's Next?" and I responded with an "I am not quite sure".   She said "Lets do the back window", so we did.  Never done any window work, other than breaking them, so I was a little reluctant.  In less than an hour we had it in.  Had a small debate about whether or not to keep the nostalgic parking stickers on the window or to tint it.  We will let you decide if we made a good choice.

Alaina said "What's next" again, and the next thing I knew I was doing body work.  I should run next time she says that.