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Re: Charlies 86 SE
« Reply #150 on: June 14, 2020, 04:10:29 pm »
And.......... the car and cradle are now one again. Nothing is tight but the car is back on the dolly. Charlie has a picture.

Will need to install the cradle bolt repairs and hook everything back up.

Charlie, don't let me forget to put oil in the AC compressor

This picture is from Scott.  I have other pictures including Standing In The Engine bay, but the file size is so large that to get them under 3K they would be very small.  500 pixels wide and they're still at 4.15 mb.

"Well, the car's on the cradle and it wants to go vroom"  Sorry, Harry Chapin.  My apologies. 
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Re: Charlies 86 SE
« Reply #151 on: June 14, 2020, 05:23:59 pm »
Awesome!
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Re: Charlies 86 SE
« Reply #152 on: June 14, 2020, 08:14:33 pm »
If the pictures are on a phone, text them to me (six 7 eight four 6 four 3780). If they can be emailed, send them to me(at)patswayne(dot)com. In either case, I'll get them posted.
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Re: Charlies 86 SE
« Reply #153 on: June 14, 2020, 08:20:21 pm »
When do ya'll plan to, um, start it?
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Re: Charlies 86 SE
« Reply #154 on: June 14, 2020, 08:49:17 pm »
Who is the phantom editor?
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Re: Charlies 86 SE
« Reply #155 on: June 14, 2020, 08:57:09 pm »
It was me.  I believe Pat and I are the only ones who can edit someone else's post. 

Pat, I'll email the pictures to you.
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Re: Charlies 86 SE
« Reply #156 on: June 14, 2020, 08:59:52 pm »
And Ron R.
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Re: Charlies 86 SE
« Reply #157 on: June 14, 2020, 09:30:24 pm »
Scott texted me the following pictures...
The guys who worked on the car.

Other pictures from Scott.




Somebody's going to have to explain this one.

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Re: Charlies 86 SE
« Reply #158 on: June 14, 2020, 09:41:46 pm »
Jordan welded the battery tray?
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Re: Charlies 86 SE
« Reply #159 on: June 14, 2020, 09:52:39 pm »
We told Jordan it would good for some real world experience.......

the other picture is the remains of the front cradle bushings, the missing parts turned to powder when I drilled them out
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Re: Charlies 86 SE
« Reply #160 on: June 14, 2020, 10:43:30 pm »
Quote from: GTRS Fiero on June 14, 2020, 09:41:46 pm
Jordan welded the battery tray?

Quote from: scottb on June 14, 2020, 09:52:39 pm
We told Jordan it would good for some real world experience.......


That's something I need to do. Learn how to weld.
But I certainly don't need to experiment on Charlie's (or anyone else's) "azz-paper-thin" sheet metal.

Good show, guys.

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Re: Charlies 86 SE
« Reply #161 on: June 14, 2020, 11:14:48 pm »
That's what was done to me.  They gave me paper-thin sheets of metal, and an arc welder.  When I tapped the weld spot, both pieces of metal lace turned to ashes.  They apparently found much humor in this.  Different they.  This was back in the early '80's.
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Re: Charlies 86 SE
« Reply #162 on: June 15, 2020, 09:03:14 am »
Quote from: GTRS Fiero on June 14, 2020, 09:41:46 pm
Jordan welded the battery tray?

Mark and Zach started the repair and we ran out of time that day.  Jordan and Mark worked on it Saturday with Jordan displaying his skills.  I never inspected any of the work.  I trust the capabilities of all 3. 

We got to see Jordan dance a few times when he got some slag falling into his shoe. 
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Re: Charlies 86 SE
« Reply #163 on: June 15, 2020, 12:09:36 pm »
Regarding the battery tray area repair..... Hindsight being what it always is.... 20/20  It would have been better to simply cut out all the rust boogered non structural sheet metal in the area and weld new back in instead of using patches or at the very least use a nonstructural / floorpan repair kit from POR15 as I have in the past.

Between Zach, myself, and Jordan.. that tray metal was so thin it would literally burn and curl up like lit tissue paper when an arc formed.  We were chasing our tails the entire time.... lesson learned...
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Re: Charlies 86 SE
« Reply #164 on: June 15, 2020, 05:52:35 pm »
Quote from: Fierofool on June 15, 2020, 09:03:14 am

We got to see Jordan dance a few times when he got some slag falling into his shoe.

The beads were usually considerate enough to jump down my shirt.
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