AoT's White Wonder

[Tom]

thanks for all the help Joh!!

Who is Joh ?

[AoT]

thanks for all the help Joh!!

Who is Joh ?

a/k/a Varnish

[AoT]

Got the rebuilt stater in today. Seems like it always the coldest day of the year when I do this. Last one was New Years eve day. Second time around is much quicker since I knew what to expect and it turned over on the first try. Took a pic of the one that was there to show what looks like the CV joint showing some wear and leaking. You can see the stater is streaked.



Also there is an oil leak. The engine compartment is dry but under the car forward of the tranny mount and dripping off the left side ridge next to the oil drain plug. That is not leaking but this is the lowest point and liquid always finds the path of least resistance. I took a pic of the splatter that is above this area to show both.

Lower ridge under cylinders

Black spots are fresh oil.


Just thought this was a different prospective of where the starter meets the fly wheel.

[Tom]

Thats where mine was leaking from , it gets on everything from there . Did you replace the FRONT engine seal before you put in the motor ?

[volksbugusa]

is the boot ripped? it looks like the final seal in the tranny is leaking...not sure on the engine leaking oil .knowing glenn i am sure that he would have replaced the main seal...hope the clutch is not getting a soaking...all fixable..even the tranny leaks but the engine and tranny must be pulled out if it is the final seal leaking...matt

[AoT]

Got the work done on rebuilding the carb. There was lots of dry rot on the diaphragm that was casuing the gas to leak and when it was pulled off it looked like a spider had made it inside. Thanks for all the help, John!!

[AoT]

In anticpation of the wonder making its first public appearance this weekend I thought I'd give it a little facelift for the cameras. The front fenders are going to be replaced so this is just temp to make it look SWEET and give me a litlle more practice on doing body work. If I thought of it sooner I would have done the area around the headlamp, but I had just spent about 1/2 hour getting the lights adjusted and didn't want to take the ring off since there's not much support holding the lamp in place. Got new ones for the new fenders.

The front driver side has a lot of rust on the lower edge so I went at it with wire wheel. No rust through just surface rust and lots of pitting.


Got the edges feathered and went over the good paint with a fine sandpaper to rough it up.


A little rattle can primer and today I'll go over it with the finished coat. Looks a lot better already.


Let the parade begin!!

[Raj]

Looking great!


I cant wait to see it!

[AoT]

While some of you were busy trying to figure out the solve the "countdown", I thought I would keep working on my car. After some discussion, took off the headlamp ring and cleaned up the rust on the bottom rim. The weep holes in the headlight buckets were clogged so there is lots of rust from the water pooling. Put some bondo over the pitted areas and resanded and reprimed. Tomorrow I will do the top coat and install the headlamps.
All the paint under the headlamps just flaked off and the bucket is rusty.



Took off the bumper seals to clean up and spray with black satin since there was lots of overspray


Looking forward to Saturday!!

[mannys66]

look at you!! that fender looks sweet!