Re: [Amc-list] Made a boo boo today

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

That trough is the Passenger side of the Ambassador!
Thank the allmighty supreme being or beings that Americans don't have those dam things!
The drivers side is going well.
It's actually easier now that I've realized it is usually easier to just cut a bigger hole and use a bigger plate!
I gets rid of more questionalbe metal and allows more room to work!
I have acguired some skills I had not recognized or taken the mind to learn before.
Did one patch today and it was in a very akward spot, mostly upside down and had to be mig'd in by the touch the trigger, release, touch the trigger, release, repeat. and this particular stitch weld came out very nice in 80% plus of it length! I no I ain't now pro, but the job is safe and will be there for a long time!
I really hope I get a "fresh" start tomorrow.
  It's miserable to have to wait for a pill to kick in, then still have to ease your bones and joints into working. Today it just did not want to give. The I got a miserable headache that also did not give.
   I had to take Luke, my baby, in to get his drivers license skill test. He passed! Great there goes another $8-900 every six months for car insurance... 
  I got my fingers crossed tomorrow will be a good day, so far that days after I work on the car are not good days.
I'm rambling, but it seems a day in between helps a lot. I had planned on taking off the mon-tues before Tsgiving, but seeing as how I'm doing I will probably just work on the conv on sat-sun, take it easy at work on Mon-tues, then do conv on Wed, stuff myself wit turkey on Thursday and then conv on Friday. If that all works out, maybe that 287 will be in place by Sunday after Thanksgiving! Running would be super extra special!

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
" I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens! "

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Me, no make boo-boo today!
> > I got a fair amount of metal welded in the drivers side corner of the vert!
> 
> Cool! If it's anything like the trough you made for the American, it's 
> gonna be very nice!
> 
> At the other end of the skill range... for the very first time, my 
> banging on metal improved it. The little American's rear valance and the 
> lower trunk part of the body had a crap repair, a dent bondoed, then 
> dented again, with chips of 1/8" thick bondo the size of a quarter all 
> over. Dropped the bumper, chipped it all off, bumped out the metal 
> "close enough", got all the rust, and paint, off it all, down to bare 
> metal, then two coats of Eastwood Rust Encapsulator. "Close enough" 
> means visible, shallow dents, a faint ripple, but defnitely flat enough 
> to sand, and with all that crap gone, will last forever or until it gets 
> professionally painted. Which could be not on my watch, to be honest. 
> Ten times nicer looking anyways.
> 
> Cleaned all the rust and old trunk seal, more Rust Encap, new trunk 
> seal. Fixed all the trunk water leaks (we'll see).
> 
> 
> 
> > Anyway after i took a pill and it took effect I got a good bit done. I hope to 
> have the corner pretty well finished tomorrow!
> >    I don't know if I will make it as far as getting the trought done before my 
> 4 day weekend is up, but just getting somewhere is good!
> 
> Is it a complete front tower repair like the American?
> 
> > For now it will get a 287, a 4bbl carb, the factory trans and a single exhast 
> dumping in front of the rear tires.
> 
> That shoudl be sweet! I was thinking a shorty exhaust on the American 
> too... I ordered a Summit turbo muffler, 2" in and out.
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