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Yarkle
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 Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 7:25 am Post subject: Re: 73 Thing for the middle Daughter |
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One thing that continually baffles me is when you see things of one original color repainted to another original color..eg white over orange yellow over orange, orange over yellow. i jsut think its odd
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doublecanister
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what's with the four things on the bumpers?
like they had a over the roof rack or were feet for a tent maybe?
Neat idea, tent feet for a popup over your THING! LOL
Don't worry, I'm sure yall will get it cleaned up and purring again!
Good luck with your project!
T
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EDragnDean
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63ziggy
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 7:16 pm Post subject: Re: 73 Thing for the middle Daughter |
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Great to see another Thing under restoration in the Houston area.
Keep the pics coming |
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doublecanister
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| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 10:38 am Post subject: Re: 73 Thing for the middle Daughter |
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I know it's probably a tad bit early,
but what's your thought on seats?
I've been mulling swapping mine with some (I think they are BMW) seats I everything was manual on these, now power. But I need
to make their seat tracks fit the THING seat tracks in the floor, so
I found an old cruddy set of seat bottoms to use but they need major cleanup.
Since you don't have seat tracks right now, maybe now's a good time to spec out some seats?
Just asking/mentioning as I'm curious myself what i'd do if it were mine.
Good luck with it and keep the photos coming.
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EDragnDean
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63ziggy
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2016 10:16 am Post subject: Re: 73 Thing for the middle Daughter |
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so it's been a while since I had mine apart. sounds like you are referring to body mount bolt that goes through the shock tower arm up into the bottom of the body.
if so, an easy way to repair/replace a captive nut that is buried behind sheet metal is to cut open a square in sheetmetal around the captive not/bolt area.
you can then weld in new nut or weld old not back in place. then weld sheetmetal square back in place.
hope that makes since.
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EDragnDean
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Making progress.
Separated the pan from the body, trimmed and welded all the necessary attachments (seat tracks, battery mount, seat belt mount, pedal stop, jack points, jack support braces).
Three rims/tires stacked on top of each other make for a good body holder over the pan... wish I had taken pictures of my getto stand... 
Driver side rocker needed rust repair lower three inches inner/outer, and repaired holes on both sides.
Put POR 15 on outer edges of the new floor pans, installed new floor pan seal, then bolted pan halves to body. Dropped body back on the chassis and bolted everything up before welding pan halves to tunnel so I wouldn't have any issues with alignment.
POR 15 with Chassis Black Top Coat.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 8:25 am Post subject: Re: 73 Thing for the middle Daughter |
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| if you have not already, pull that tape line. Por-15 dried will give you fits removing the tape in crisp line. |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 12:09 am Post subject: Re: 73 Thing for the middle Daughter |
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| Outer rear spacer has the bevel in towards the CVs and the larger part facing outwards and it mates up with the brake drum. |
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