Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Glue This, Re-Enforce That

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I know it will turn out nice Davis but it is a real PIA job and the wife
is really getting on my nerves with all her complaining. It's a good
thing she works and I can work on he grill in peace during the day. she
usually comes home tired and I throw some food in front of her and don't
hear a peep out of her the rest of the night. It's just in the mornings
some times before she goes to work or on the week ends. Arthritis in my
hands is also slowing me down too. It's going to be another couple of
weeks before it is finished. The stripping and painting of the AMX
flairs should be far less tedious and I will be doing them at my friends
shop so I won't have to hear her.
"Doc"



 
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• From: Davis Martin <martin-davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:22:44 -0800 (PST)

It will be well worth it when your done Doc. I remember when i restored the grille in my gremlin 2 years ago. I worked on it for about 30 hours and it only had a couple of cracks to fix!

 Davis

AMC74HORNET@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Still working every day for 2-3 hours on my grill since a week ago last
friday. Since the grill is out I decided to re-enforce all the grill
mounting points and forget about them. The wife is on my case about the
grill being in the house, to bad!!!! I had one area that was warped and
that was where they made a spot to reach in under the hood to release
the hood latch, the material was just to thin. I picked up some 1/2"
square plexi glass at the local plexi place friday and made me a
re-enforcement for the back of this area after I clamped the grill and
used the wife's hair drier as a heat gun to remove as much of the
warpage as possible. I glued the piece of plexi glass in with JB Weld.
Before gluing the plexi in I used my battery powered Dremil to grove the
plexi to make it fit the curve of the back of the grill. Tomorrow I will
start to glue in the mounting tabs I made from scratch to mount the
headlight door screws which were missing. I also need to make a few
re-enforcements in the grill that factory should have put in but didn't.
All this work may seem like over kill but it is a 32 year old brittle
plastic grill that once it goes back in will not come out again in my
life time, I hope. By mid week I will have put the grill back in the
1"X1" wooden jig I made and start the sanding and painting to finish it.
Before the grill goes back in I will add a tranny oil cooler.
I got 15 hours in the grill so far. It looks like its going to be a 40
hour + job like my door sill resto. :-(
"Doc"




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