Friday, March 30, 2012

You do get a heart attack when you press the brakes and you get an earful of revs

the foot pedals... where a serious issue... If you remember in one of my post many years ago the pedal cluster and fuel pedal were put back together by panel repair shop run by Nanda... this what happens when you do things many years ago... but only can see a problem many years later when you put everything back together...

Im not even sure if its a measuring problem cos even the seat rails seems like its not in the correct place... but i seriously dont know.... anyways for now im just going to redo the fuel pedal...

So after everything was put back together... i found that the gas pedal was actually hitting against the brake pedal ... i had to bend the fuel pedal towards the right so that it would clear the brake pedal... 

I bought a gas pedal repair kit from LKW.

This is after bending the pedal towards the right...

Unhooked the pedal and took a grinder to the bracket and chiselled out the rest of the welds 


Prep'ed the area and put the pedal repair kit together... 






repair kit assembled in this manner (below) ... i couldnt use the s-joint supplied in the repair kit so i reused the old one... as seen below the new part is shorter then the old one... and would snag and jam the pedal when assembled... i guessing this is for a left hand driver car... 


Bolted the pedal to the floor....

hmmmm is there any difference?... it does feel better when driving but i think i cant where my basket ball shoes while driving

looking good with some nice new rubber pads...


Thursday, March 15, 2012

Fuel Gauge

The needle on my fuel gauge actually turned to dust.... seriously!!... so i put in an after-market gauge till i can refurbish the old one... or get an a new one that looks original...


Thursday, March 01, 2012

Oh! so there's suppose to be something behind the door cards la!...

Tackled the door cards next....   the interior guy was going to do it for me but i was not to happy with how he wanted to do it... If i had let him do it... water wld be coming down the vapour barrier and out the bottom  and onto the inner side of the door sill... just enough to get the carpets wet... and in malaysian kind of rain I probably would have drown inside the car.... you know la...with all the new seals and all....



Spread out the PVC sheet

put the cards on top to roughly draw out the size of the cards

rough guide...

The top and bottom photos shows what i wanted done but the interior feller didnt want to put in these extra sheets of plastic to guide any water running on the vapour barrier to flow into the inner part of the door channels...  You of cos will need to make sure the drainage holes are clear of debris or if the doors even have the holes intact... if not you will need to drill out holes in the proper place... 


Door card clips placed ready to be clipped onto the door...


Blue tacked the vapour barrier in placed and cut out the excess plastic. I did the back also no reason to but i though might as well do it... 


found this clip in the rear inner well. Is this an original 1965 clip?




DOOR CARDS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!