55 Coupe project
- Steve Harrison
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Re: 55 Coupe project
Here I am grinding out that seal so the quarter window glass would fit back into the frame. What a mess...but it worked.
What you're seeing is the seal clamped into a long jaw woodworkers vice with a green felt cushion. The green felt came off an old pool table top and it's quite handy to cover the woodworking table to protect it and make a nice assembly surface.
What you're seeing is the seal clamped into a long jaw woodworkers vice with a green felt cushion. The green felt came off an old pool table top and it's quite handy to cover the woodworking table to protect it and make a nice assembly surface.
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Re: 55 Coupe project
Horns in. Yea,...the tags are a little scrubby, but they're originals. So be it.
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Re: 55 Coupe project
Cutting out squares in the engine insulation panel so the regulator can mount. Pays to have a sharp chisel here.
P.S.,..there's a wooden board under there to protect the felt and table, haha.
P.S.,..there's a wooden board under there to protect the felt and table, haha.
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Original quarter window glass. Never knew there was a date code on these,..till I took them apart to rechrome the frames. See something new every day.
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Believe it or not this whole crazy mess fits inside the headlight bucket. You can't see them when installed, but there are relays for each headlight high beam, low beam, and fog light. A cheap and easy way to save your switches from all that amperage, and make the lights brigher to boot.
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Original? I have no idea, but unlikely it is. But I've never seen a bronze (brass?) battery terminal ever. Strange, so I kept it, haha.
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Here are some odd pre A details.
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Wire mounted behind the dash to a bracket on the trunk firewall. Obviously a ground,...but what's the purpose of the "paint" stripe? It's not paint, it's more like a corrosion tell tale trace of something. Any ideas?
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Dash on the way to completion. The fuse box is still hanging free. What you see there is blue painters tape attached to each wire with a note as to where the wire goes to or comes from. It's the only way I could keep it straight when I doped out the wiring from the chart. One of the confusing things that I had to get past in the beginning is that the chart and the fuse box are 'inverted' in their views. Left is right, right is left. Once I got that figured right in the beginning, everything fell more into place, haha. I can't stress enough how instrumental an ohm meter and a long (15ft) piece of wire with aligator clips on both ends is to the process. Time consuming, yes, but in the end, there were few surprises.
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- You can see the vinyl strips clipped aside. On the Pre A the A pillar vinyl is clamped by the dash itself. I wanted to get the dash in before the headliner and since the vinyl ends as a fold over that covers the headliner at the top of the A pillar I had to put the vinyl in, and then let the ends 'hang loose' till I can ge the headliner in after the dash mechanicals are done. Baby steps.
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Re: 55 Coupe project
Dash basically done. Getting the dash together, putting each part in, was like finally getting a date with that girl you always knew was just out of your reach back in school....
Oh how satisfying to put each part in, and savored each moment. Sometimes I had to take a step back and look. It's not about me at all,..it's about this car getting itself together after soo many years in unassembled distopian exile.
Oh how satisfying to put each part in, and savored each moment. Sometimes I had to take a step back and look. It's not about me at all,..it's about this car getting itself together after soo many years in unassembled distopian exile.
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Re: 55 Coupe project
Looking fantastic Steve!
It looks like they've scraped away the primer here to get a good electrical contact. I see this on the wiper assembly boomerang as well, which came to Porsche from SWF with a grey primer covering it. And of course where they scraped, you get some nice surface rust. =]Steve Harrison wrote:Wire mounted behind the dash to a bracket on the trunk firewall. Obviously a ground,...but what's the purpose of the "paint" stripe? It's not paint, it's more like a corrosion tell tale trace of something. Any ideas?
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Some 3M Hand Polish might clean those up a bit. The tags are etched, so pretty durable. But yeah, good choice to keep the originals. Only original once. Will you dab some black paint on the horn's perimeter screw heads?Steve Harrison wrote:Horns in. Yea,...the tags are a little scrubby, but they're originals. So be it.
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Re: 55 Coupe project
Steve, I do recall seeing the tape wrapped washers on the dash mount bolt holes when I pulled my '55 dash half-dozen years ago. I didn't take photos as I was hoping to someday forget the whole 356 dash install ordeal - and now I've got two more to do. I'll have a look at the '53 when I'm down at the metal shop next week. Great progress on your CC - looking real sweet!
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