My learning/patience curve was tested today....
Helped Pat Skelly with his '56 SkyHawk hardtop today.
He had a plastic baggie full of rollers and funky springs.
He had two window frames with this rotten rusty...something out at one end.
Rotten and rusty is not a fair description.
Whatever was there was unidentifiable.
The pic's in the parts manual were useless.
The pic's in the SI catalog were great.
Now I knew exactly what was in the bag.
But exactly 'how' they fit into the window frame was a mystery (to me).
After sandblasting the end of the window frame, and prying the fossilized whatever they were out of there (and sandblasting everything again...
Painted the window frame end, and started the jigsaw puzzle.
Took an hour to get everything in the first frame
(eleventeen trial assemblies to learn that I put something in backwards, or the wrong roller in the wrong hole.
After getting the first one put together right, it took ten minutes to do the other window.
My first hardtop window roller experience...from scratch....
It'll make a coupe guy out of you...
But... I am still learning!
Jeff
Helped Pat Skelly with his '56 SkyHawk hardtop today.
He had a plastic baggie full of rollers and funky springs.
He had two window frames with this rotten rusty...something out at one end.
Rotten and rusty is not a fair description.
Whatever was there was unidentifiable.
The pic's in the parts manual were useless.
The pic's in the SI catalog were great.
Now I knew exactly what was in the bag.
But exactly 'how' they fit into the window frame was a mystery (to me).
After sandblasting the end of the window frame, and prying the fossilized whatever they were out of there (and sandblasting everything again...
Painted the window frame end, and started the jigsaw puzzle.
Took an hour to get everything in the first frame
(eleventeen trial assemblies to learn that I put something in backwards, or the wrong roller in the wrong hole.
After getting the first one put together right, it took ten minutes to do the other window.
My first hardtop window roller experience...from scratch....
It'll make a coupe guy out of you...
But... I am still learning!
Jeff
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