Not a lot to report as the brakes just didn't want to cooperate with me this week.. I'll spare the boring details.. but suffice to say they need fluid and a good bleed once I put the drivers seat back so my son can push the pedal!
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Posts: 13409 | Location: Arlington Mass | Registered: 01 May 2005
Steve gets the gold star today.. the compression fitting inserts are the hot ticket.. You have to put wood underneath and really whack the crap out of it.. but it works!
Here are the fittings checked for diameter on the original mat...
tom @ camaropacecars.com ( remove the space between m,@,c)
Posts: 13409 | Location: Arlington Mass | Registered: 01 May 2005
By the way... these repro mats.. not so good but theres nothing else to compare:
The color is too dark. The material is too hard. the cut is oversized on the ends and the sucky part for us is that the coupe is actually SHORTER than the Convertible.. I don't mind cutting.. but I can't add
The circle on the coupe is to go over the shock.. we have the divider that lengthens the need as it slopes upward
tom @ camaropacecars.com ( remove the space between m,@,c)
Posts: 13409 | Location: Arlington Mass | Registered: 01 May 2005
Looking good Tom, thanks for the gold star! Does the car have the spare tire hold down? I'd like to see what that hole cut looks like on your original trunk mat to compare it to what I have from a survivor 1969 trunk mat. I can see somethings changed a bit over the years on the matt, the bumper mount reinforcement on 69s are cut out instead of being completely covered in 67.
Car look really good Tom, excellent work bringing it back to proper. Love the thread and the detail. Often wonder if there aren't a huge group of restores with 67's following along and taking notes.
Posts: 1602 | Location: Canada | Registered: 13 May 2005
So much for the fast paced improvements.. The brakes tortured me so badly Saturday that I could not face that beast Sunday.. Instead I had full motivation to try and straighten the doors in the hole and the fenders to the door. let me be very clear... If you don't take the time to line your doors up and then you put your fenders on you have screwed the next guy.. I suppose a good analogy is painting over the wallpaper in your house and then taking the wall paper off... not to hard to understand why thats not gonna work .. SO.. with bloody knucks and cut down sockets, two jacks, a bunch of towels, a vice bent 1/2" speed wrench and a 12 year old punk at my side we had at it... The better door on the driver side took a while.. luck was on my side with the way off passengers side.. I had the door adjusted in about three attempts.. this left me time in the day to polish out that side jambs and dress the doors some.. Keep in mind last month I made all the adjustments to the door for the " in & out " its the "forward and back" thats the toughy..
tom @ camaropacecars.com ( remove the space between m,@,c)
Posts: 13409 | Location: Arlington Mass | Registered: 01 May 2005
Does the car have the spare tire hold down? I'd like to see what that hole cut looks like on your original trunk mat to compare it to what I have from a survivor 1969 trunk mat. I can see somethings changed a bit over the years on the matt, the bumper mount reinforcement on 69s are cut out instead of being completely covered in 67.
.. SO.. with bloody knucks and cut down sockets, two jacks, a bunch of towels, a vice bent 1/2" speed wrench and a 12 year old punk at my side we had at it... The better door on the driver side took a while.. luck was on my side with the way off passengers side.. I had the door adjusted in about three attempts.. this left me time in the day to polish out that side jambs and dress the doors some.. 
