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Badger

Cameron said:
Patrick does everything badass, minivans not excluded.

Nutcase or not, I aspire to the level of detail Pat works at. It takes serious patience and vision to put together a car as clean as he does.
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I prefer to think of it in terms of being dumb enough to start and stubborn enough to finish.
 
Group A said:
When I restored VW's that was my work/daily driver. :-P
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so, back then, you werent known as Tuff240; more so as 'the long-haired creep in the scalloped aerostar smokin a clove, drinking too much Dr. Pepper?'
 
It was "T3 Xpert" and my friends in England called the cloves "dodgy fags" when I would visit. The local UK convenience store loved me though, they'd never sold so much DrPepper.
 
Group A said:
It was "T3 Xpert" and my friends in England called the cloves "dodgy fags" when I would visit. The local UK convenience store loved me though, they'd never sold so much DrPepper.
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pat d, keeping businesses afloat, one Dr. Pepper at a time.
 
Few more pictures and even a little weight secret. ;-)

Prior to powder coating the passenger side firewall panel I removed what is a 3-5lb solid steel rectangular "sound deadener/absorber" from the inside of the firewall panel. It is spot weld on in 3 places. I drilled out the spot welds, welded the holes up and had to metal finish the panel because it was being powder-coated.

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Last weekend I prepped the core support, inside edge of front fenders and the hood hinges for paint and painted them.

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I also installed the almost brand new wiper motor ( gotta love Pick n Pull ). As I was installing the last bolt it got kind of hard to turn and thinking it was probably just a little paint on the threads I tried to keep going. Bad choice because it snapped off flush. So I had to drill it out and chase all the threads. Luckily I didn't damage the threads so it was pretty easy to fix.

Broken bolt:
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Removed broken bolt and all threads chased.
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Wiper motor installed:
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Tonight I fixed the main harness to engine harness wires. New wires with correct ends and colors were sourced from a late model junk yard car. With the help of Eric V. the "new" wires are now soldered and shrink wrapped. I took a picture of it all together wrapped and in place on the firewall clip, but it came out fuzzy. I'll take another pic tomorrow.

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Got the zinc plating back today. The yellow zinc came out foggy/light looking so I'm going to have them redo them. The clear/silver looks awesome though. Super shiny! :)

Pictures from last night...


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Shiny mess...
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Sorted shiny stuffz
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Starting to resemble a car again!
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