Carl 61 Fleetwood Phyllis

[Clewisiii]

Man o man, I would give anything to have the skills to do a project like this.
I recommend a vintage alternator...it looks original.
Some where on their forum is my emergency trunk tool and parts list.
I keep everything in vintage bags from eBay.

I don't know if it is skills. I have more time then money. Which is why it has been 9 years. I spend more time thinking about what I will do then actually doing anything.

Again. I have never driven this car. I have never even driven a car with a carburetor. And though it sometimes hurts to say I do not care about this car on an emotional level. If I screw it up I do not care. So I am willing to try.

[Clewisiii]

I am not going to try to save most of these bumper bolts. It is not worth the effort of sandblasting them all. It is even a pain taking this all apart. It has had penetrating oil soaking for 2 weeks. They are coming apart but with a lot of effort. Two carriage head bolts have decided to spin. So those will need to be cut off.

[Clewisiii]

The High Pressure power steering hose from McVeys is much better then the hose from Caddy Daddy. The low pressure hose they sent might be to narrow though.

[Clewisiii]

So I have my splash shields from Rubber the Right way. I will need your help identifying where they go. Someone had said the kit comes with a sheet showing the locations. I did not have that.

[Clewisiii]

I believe some of these sheets install with bolts and washers. But j am not sure the holes are cut for the bolts.

[Clewisiii]

Back to power steering.

The McVeys high pressure hose was great.


 But the low pressure hose that McVeys sent was to narrow of diameter.

The McVeys hose fit my radiator overflow very well.


I cut the end of the Caddy Daddy return hose. It was the correct diameter to fit in.

So other then the Caddy Daddy high pressure hose that is a waste. I have at least been able to use most of what I bought.

[Clewisiii]

Ok placing and laying out the splash shields. I have figured out the three for The wheel well. It looks like the center shingles over the side pieces. The rear rubber covers two pieces bolted together then bolts secure the rubber on the second piece.

I still question the small pieces. Mostly just final alignment. The sickle shaped one just kind of sits over the part. I still need to take the small pieces of metal in for powdercoat. So I cannot install them yet.


That leaves two pieces unaccounted for. Which may not be needed.

[Clewisiii]

I will tape the sheets in what I believe to be the correct spot.

I will clamp a board flat across the stapled area.



Now he I flip it over I should be able to drill through the metal into the rubber and board for good clean hole locations.


The flat of the staples comes from the rubber side and the ends are curled on the metal side.

[Clewisiii]

One side done. Except for the bumper ends.

[Clewisiii]

I still need to figure out a good way to support these inner fenders while I work around them

[Clewisiii]

Not a job I would want to do on car. But less then half a casual day to get these ones installed at least. 

I have the 4 small stamped parts to do next after powdercoating.

[Clewisiii]

With the outer wheel well metal liner in place, I have a screw hole I can mount a block to securely hold the core support and wheel liners in place. This will work much better for supporting for my engine start at the end of October.

[Clewisiii]

I was hoping to wait to install the Y pipe to the headers until the rest of my exhaust hangers arrived. But this might be what I accomplish this next week.

With the rest of the pipes in place it has changed the angle so that I have some more room to that tie rod I was worried about.

[Clewisiii]

Having had a better look at the rear axles the bearings are fully seated. I was worried that one was an 1/8 off. The first time I painted these I did not even clean the old grease off first.

So cleaning the up and a coat of POR 15. But my quart can has finally hardened. I will only buy pints going forward.


I had to turn on my plating tanks to do the retaining bolts. These were not sent in the big batch.


I have been thinking about the lug studs. They seem fine. But should I press them out and replace them?.

[Clewisiii]

Sometimes it is the little things that bug you.

This little cap was on one of the bolt threads on the passenger side inner fender. I don't know if it was to protect the AC line passing over there. Or if there were multiple and I only have this one.

But anyway the annoyance. I had sprayed this with epoxy primer. Now I cannot get it off.

[The Tassie Devil(le)]

Having had a better look at the rear axles the bearings are fully seated. I was worried that one was an 1/8 off. The first time I painted these I did not even clean the old grease off first. 

If the fitting of the bearing is the same as that of the 1960, then the bearing has to be pressed on to a measurement, and not a register as in normal axles.

I remember this from when I had to replace one in my '60 CDV when I first purchased it.   I reread the instructions, as I had never seen it before, but there it was, written down.   Plus, it took a bit of pressure to get it to the right spot.

Bruce.

[6262]

Where exactly do these go?

Carl, there is an auxiliary dust shield set that fits under the sway bar near the frame. It was one of those forgotten pieces that I discovered during my restoration. I sent originals to Rubber The Right Way and they started reproducing them. Here's the link:

https://www.rubbertherightway.com/i-30497863-auxiliary-frame-dust-shield.html

[cadman59]

Sometimes it is the little things that bug you.

This little cap was on one of the bolt threads on the passenger side inner fender. I don't know if it was to protect the AC line passing over there. Or if there were multiple and I only have this one.

But anyway the annoyance. I had sprayed this with epoxy primer. Now I cannot get it off.

Many years ago I bought a set of these red plastic caps from Ebay. The description said these red caps were supposed to be on the studs you mention, but were almost allways missing (as in my case).

Still have them on the shelve Since I never ever saw a car having them I doubted the description was right. But now you found one on your car, it may be true after all.

Will see if I still have the printed Ebay add somewhere.

Edit: Here you go, the print of the Ebay add from 20(!!) years ago.

Still have the caps on the shelve, never installed them on the car. Since I never ever saw them on any other car I always had my doubts about the originality. Now you found one on your car it might be true after all.

On one of the smaller pictures you can see the original Dealers parts wrapper, but unfortunately the caps I bought just came in a plastic bag. The original wrapper might have shown the part number.

[Clewisiii]

Happy to confirm the use after 20 years.

[jwwseville60]

This Resto is simply breathtaking. Wow.