Hi Peter. You should be very happy with that result. That was quite a complicated job to make right. I have also used Araldite to fix a steering wheel. I drilled a series of small hole into the cracks and splits in different angles hoping to key everything together better.. Then dammed them up like you with masking tape and used a heat gun to make sure the glue ran deep into the cracks. I did have the Araldite start to show at a different height a few months later under the paint, but wet sanding the paint down level again, has not shown threw for a number of years now.
Loving your collaborations with Scott at Cold War Motors, this is a most interesting thread as I love both your channels. You should create a challenge for him to buy a Starlet or Falcon and take on one of those.....but he seems to have enough on his hands! Love from the UK.
Came out beautiful, I was so looking forward to the Plimmy wheel resto. That's easily the hardest part of small restos, finding the patience and willpower to walk away from glues until they set.
A fine job as always Peter.. Always showing me how to repair/modify and what to use.. Excellent. Thanks for another quality 45 mins..!! Hope you had a great New Year!! God Bless
Looking great, really nice 👍 remember when you were fixing the radio in the Plymouth, that was the first video from you I saw and I have watched ever seen😊 really like the way you work and enjoy watching it. Cheers from Henning in Denmark.
That looks great.. nice work. I was watching one of your videos with a Honda mc. Rebuild. Then went to watch ' T time CWM. & you was there wow you traveled really fast...lol
lovey job. you might want to invest in a either a set of triangle rasps or get a metal finger nail file. Either or will work with those finger grips. :)
That's a beautiful job you have done there Peter, I know you can see every fault in it every time you look at it but we are all the same with work we have done. You have done a wonderful job and you chose the right colours for it as well. We all know you will respray the engine and those panels on the lower front in the correct shade of silver and I can't wait to see how she looks :-) Keep up the great work!
Pete, add Q cell, to thicken and make the 24 hour araldite stronger and more easily sandable. p.s. So envious of your trip to visit Scott, his projects & agents..
Looking at the wheel in the car i think you definatly need to paint the part of the steering column that is red to black to match the wheel, that ties it in nice seperating the red dash from the black wheel, as you said there is much more red in the car as is. As the paint and body is in good condition it wouldn't be that much work to repaint the car in the correct color, esp as you not put the glass in yet and still have to strip the clip to do mounts, probably having the space is the major problem.the wheel looks great, when the light catches it and you see the wobbles and few imperfections it makes it even better, if you have ever painted a house door like you paint a car door the first thing you do is start hitting it with a hammer and chains cos it looks too perfect, some things are ment to have character marks to them. very nice save. I hope you and all you know are safe from the conditions out there at the moment.
I’ve noticed that Ford (at least at the time) shared and re-used a lot of interesting parts. My October 1992 build EB II GLi wagon appears to have a door handle borrowed from another model fitted to the tailgate, which is simply covered by the number plate surround/garnish.
Looks great I have to redo the steering wheel on our Wolseley 6/99 The original wheel has no plastic left at all So I purchased a reasonable but cracked wheel to repair and replace
Another great video, for what it’s worth I reckon painting the lower valance silver (aka Coldwar motors “shitmix silver!”) would help break up the red. Maybe when the front clip is removed?? Cheers
I've successfully used a product called PC-7 two part epoxy to repair cracks in a steering wheel. It's the same stuff The Eastwood Company includes in their steering wheel restoration kit, I was able to find it at my local hardware store. It works very well.
it's black in color, I don't believe they make a clear version. I know what you mean about your car, I have a '61 Bonneville and used to own a '65 GP. The only thing for them is to send them out to one of the few places that re-casts them, which unfortunately costs a lot of money.
Before the Restoration of the wheel, It’s like the Fury in Forza, the interior is completely inaccurate. Colour wise To be honest after you have restored it, I like the different colour, red on black... most of them are red on white. Nice to see a change.
Yes, I bought the car pretty much as you see it... to be honest, I think the Ferrari red (although a good job) wrecks the car... it was a beautiful green before and I wish they kept the original colour, cheers.
From memory what you call the "deluxe" wheel came only with the power steer option, and was therefore more common on the fancier models, and virtually standard on the Furys.
Have a 71 mk1 van but have not experienced this to the point of thinking that it was how it come from the factory but maybe done later by someone... Has a 75 cortina mother in it which is all metric, but next time I reach for a 10mm spanner to torque something on the car itself, I'll be taking a more careful look
