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'67 122s, in way over my head

Slow going on the Amazon. M41 started making bearing noise. So I gotta pull that soon. I didn't feel like doing that right now and the 240 is occupying the garage for rust and windshield work.

Instead I decided to fix a 164 clock to put in the dash somewhere. These things are interesting. They seem to be a mechanical movement but the spring is wound by 12v? There is also a fusable link in the clock that is a low temp solder with a 120C fusing point. So when the solder hits 120C the solder joint will break one contact will separate from the other under spring pressure.

https://www.pelicanparts.com/bmw/techarticles/Borrowed/mult_vdo_clock_repair.htm

So the fix is to find the right solder, which in my case was 52% Indium/48% Selenium stuff I found online.

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Hooked it up to 12V and nudged the little wheel inside and it started ticking.

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Made some tweaks to the cooling system. On the aftermarket brass/copper radiators that Skandix and other places sell there are small holes in the side plates that fit #8 screws with enough clearance to not hit the core. I assume for the fan shroud on P1800ES models. I repurposed those to mount my "oh no it is summer and I'm in traffic" electric fan.
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I also got fed up with the noisy metal blower wheel I had on the aftermarket blower motor (supposed to fit an early 80s Wagoneer among other cars). I found a bathroom blower fan STL file online that looked similar to the quite brittle original setup. A few modifications later to match the original fan's dimensions and a few hours on the 3D printer and I have a new blower fan that is far quieter and actually moves more air than the metal blower wheel.
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Finally I put together a revised design for gauges and switches below the dash.
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