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[camxsmith]

Thanks I try to please   

[FireKraka]

Hi Cam;
I don't think you will be disappointed with the Taylors repair panels I purchased the front floor panels from Ray and am really please the sub chassis and rear floor panels I purchased from Rares for my FB/EK Ute leave a lot to be desired they are just not the same shape as the originals being slightly larger making the joins a little harder but I suppose when they is nothing else we have to use what we can get 

Regards
Neil H 

[camxsmith]

Great to here Neil
I got as much as I could from Ray's, And what a character he is. Oh my ...  what ever you do, do not ask about Telstra and bigpond   ..  But do ask about his business its an interesting story. Would love to see him in action making the panels and Im sure he has some amazing stories about it all. Another one with a wealth of knowledge which will I hope be past on.

I hope some time soon I will get to put some of these part in..   

[camxsmith]

Collected some more items over the last couple of weeks. 

Decided to go with a Trimatic instead of the Powerglide. More of a cruising car instead of drag car    It has electric kick down and is a later model, VB commo or UC Torana.



Got a proportioning valve from a HZ sedan to go with the rear drums and front disc. 



Cleaned up my HK steering arms and have nearly finished the rear diff HT drum plates. Hope to get the diff together for a lick of paint. 

[Errol62]

Hi Cam
Re bracing might I suggest fitting and carefully aligning the doors and tacking shut prior to fitting new sills. That will brace everything and make for no surprises. When sills are tacked on remove rear doors and tack b pillars. I haven't done this but based on advice from others and common sense.

Cheers
Clay


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[camxsmith]

Thanks Clay I will keep that in mind when I get too it.

[camxsmith]

At last some paint on some items, using KBS paint.


Diff with aqua clean on


Items getting the rust blast


Items with the rust seal, comes up pretty smooth with just a brush..  amazing really.

[DJ]

They came up really well.

[FCRB26]

Nothing like fresh paint..


How did you get it to dry ? its as cold as here in NSW..

[camxsmith]

Another few steps forward..

Cleaned up brake pedal.


Removed the lower part of the sill I had left on after cutting a strip out, I thought might as well as it will help with the sand blasting. Amazed at the number of spot welds and there locations, one was right in the middle of a drainage slot...

[JOX515]

G'day Cam,

Making good progress there  . Wont be too long and another quality car will hit the road.

Got mine up on stands at the moment doing the stuff the engineer requires which is not much at all really. 

Cheers, Graeme

[GMHwagoon]

 cam

     you call them spot welds     will show you spot welds
    l counted 40 in one 12inch  strip   the panel beater must have got a new toy when he put these sills on
    or the bloody apprentice was unsupervised
    took me a while hade to grind it back to where the floor pan was

[camxsmith]

HI missed your question Pete on how i was getting things dry ..  1. sun was out 2. heaters were running flat out and 3. was the middle of the day..  Took a risk and paid off.. 

Graeme hows the out look on the selling of the car..  Are you going to be able to keep it ..?

Greg you definitely win hands down on the spot welds.... that's insane 

[fe350chev]

Hi. Been off for a while. We did an assessment of the car and it was pretty far gone so we braced it all up and did some of the structural bits before blasting like inner and outer sills and butt welded some patches and pans in then blasted it to get the crap paint off the pans that were fitted.

That was on my FE. Since my blaster is mobile and I have a setup allowing for it, I did what Ken suggested and lightly blasted the inner sills on my fc after roughly cutting out the outer sill and cos this fc is much better than the other car (which I wouldn't have trusted not bracing but this one has solid floor and inner sill) I again listened to the guys here and used paint stripper and a polishing wheel with 80 grit on panels. My  blaster said to blast the floor from underneath to find pin holes. We didn't find many and lightly blasted both sides of inner sills. After now doing 2 of the same car, I think each car may need to be assessed individually in some respects.

I found that the rares pans on the fe were OK but the two sets of cross members that meet the gearbox mount area between the A pillars (front of main body) we're short and really not useable at all. So if I do a four link etc I might use them somehow then. I spoke to ray recently. He sent me an updated list. I have a few bits to get but not much left to get. We made our own bits from the A pillar across but using a mates fab workshop. We did them exactly like the originals in a decent gauge.

[camxsmith]

Hi it's been a while.. been doing my favorite things still blasting a couple of small parts. Have a couple of ideas one around the air cleaner.. making it look like a holden 186s air clean even thou it's a Ford ..



The other idea I'm playing around is the eh gauge pod on the dash in place of the ash tray.



So that's what's been going on ...

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[FCRB26]

Looking good jut keep on plugging along.
I have a FC speaker grille if ur after one ?

[camxsmith]

Thanks Pete, always looking after me .. I will have to check out how bad my real one is ...  I say that because I think you might think that is the grill im going to use ..  Its is actual I section I cut out of a really bad ute. Was nearly the only bit realy left stuck in a vise on my bench .  I wide angle shot will show you what I mean ..  the gill just came with it. ::   

If that was my real dash I would be a bit worried, I have bee hacking it it a bit  ...   

[camxsmith]

Its amazing some times its just cheaper to buy the whole item..  Been searching for HQ,HZ ...  rear backing plates and found I could buy the entire diff for cheaper then the backing plates by them selves.

I need to do a small adjustment to the inner circle so the bearing fits thru, but other then that they will bolt straight on with the HT drums, on the LJ diff. The HQ have the inner mount section pressed in more, this is required if you dont the wheel cylinder hits the shaft flange which holds the studs. Love to say it was my idea but found all the info here http://www.fbekholden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=20071

Other things I have been doing is cleaning up the steering box and the vertical channel pillar, All sand blasted and painted. Have to take some more pictures of these.

[JOX515]

Car seems to be coming along nicely cam 

[VAN059]

Great progress Cam

Are you running the LJ diff, with HQ stud pattern? I have a HR front end that will be running HQ, & I have a LJ diff lying around, so wanted to convert that to HQ as well.

Cheers
Marc