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Old Mar 13, 2018 | 01:07 PM
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The PO had put in cables on my 68 and they wouldn't alwayswork. I fiddled and adjusted and finally went back to the rods. Havent had an issue since
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Old Mar 13, 2018 | 07:53 PM
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I spent most of the day on the 2nd wall of the addition getting it ready for siding......no pics/Derek said they're not necessary....LOL.

Now for the work it took to remove the fiberglass from the shoulder of the deck. It's a good thing the previous body man didn't remove the paint from the shoulder where the deck lid sits. I was able to heat the fiberglass enough to pry it off with a flat-tipped screwdriver....2 hours of heating/cooling the area----which is better than a day of grinding out bonded fiberglass!





























Next......sand the area down to original fiberglass and build the underside up with fiberglass where any gouges are.
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Old Mar 14, 2018 | 07:23 AM
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Looking good Doorgunner, keep it up.

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Old Mar 14, 2018 | 08:22 AM
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DG;

You continue to amaze. Keep up the good work, and keep up the posts.
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Old Mar 14, 2018 | 11:52 AM
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Loving it! Keep it going!
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Old Mar 14, 2018 | 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Jack605
Looking good Doorgunner, keep it up.

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You continue to amaze. Keep up the good work, and keep up the posts.
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Loving it! Keep it going!
Thanks Members....my biggest concern having never touched a Corvette before this was having to do fiberglass work. Well......guess WHAT!

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Old Mar 14, 2018 | 12:28 PM
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Originally Posted by doorgunner
Thanks Members....my biggest concern having never touched a Corvette before this was having to do fiberglass work. Well......guess WHAT!

Lookin Good and you never can say, "You haven't done fiberglass work" again.





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Old Mar 14, 2018 | 06:03 PM
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so you got most of the original drip channel back. good chit mon!
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Looks good Tony, good to see you hard at it!
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Boy you got lucky they did a shitty job and it came off fairly easy.
Looking good and go easy on that back DG.
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Old Mar 14, 2018 | 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by randy ransome
Lookin Good and you never can say, "You haven't done fiberglass work" again.

Tell me about it!




Originally Posted by derekderek
so you got most of the original drip channel back. good chit mon!
Yep....I was worried that I would have to build a new channel!






Originally Posted by AirborneSilva
Looks good Tony, good to see you hard at it!
Thanks Airborne.....You haven't been jumping out of any perfectly good aircraft lately?






Originally Posted by Rodnok1
Boy you got lucky they did a shitty job and it came off fairly easy.
Looking good and go easy on that back DG.
Exactly.....I would have been up "that creek" if they had done it correctly.
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Not lately Tony but my back is sure feeling like I have after working on my other car these past 4 days! Keep up the good work and make us proud/er of you!
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Originally Posted by AirborneSilva
Not lately Tony but my back is sure feeling like I have after working on my other car these past 4 days! Keep up the good work and make us proud/er of you!
Thanks Airborne.......Today I need to divide my time between the garage addition and the fiberglass work

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We need garage pics!
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Originally Posted by derekderek
We need garage pics!


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In other news................................I spent a couple hours cleaning the channel in the body that the deck lid sits in. There are some "nice" gouges, so I will clean the underside of the channels and reinforce the whole area............


Before.................................








Passenger-side channel.................................








Passenger-side drain?..................








Across rear of deck.................................... .......








Driver-side channel.........................








Driver-side drain?.................................. ..






Can anyone tell me if the two rectangular holes are drain holes/what are they for?

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I can go look. Hold on
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there are holes on both the drivers and passengers sides. They look like they must drain into the rear vents. when the pics show up on my computer I'll post them
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Old Mar 16, 2018 | 09:41 AM
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Thanks RR....since the previous ???? broke the driver-side vent off/I also sealed off the astro vents on the top of the deck for the same reason....
I think I will install 1/2" diameter aluminum drain tubes to bypass the original vent/drain design.
I can't remember which member did the tube-modification to all the drains on his car since he didn't want to deal with leaks/rotted rubber drain tubes.

The previous body man wacked off the top radius when he fiberglassed the deck lid in place. The radius on the top rim of the deck channel looks to be approx. a 1/8" radius? What do you think?
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