Today worked on cleaning, fixing and painting the radiator and fan shroud. The small vent nipple broke off yesterday while I was removing the hose likely because I was pulling to hard plus 50 years plus it didn't look like it was soldered well. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. At any rate I cleaned it up and re-soldered it. Then cleaned the radiator inside and outside and painted it. Along with the fan shroud I think they will look better and I think the radiator will work better sans grasshoppers.
Then on to one of my pet peeves, carelessly inflicted damage to the car from jacking it up. Terry, one of my Buddies cut me some black walnut inserts to fit in the groove under the front 'picture' frame. I've always wondered why Jaguar didn't do something like this from the factory, even welding a piece of flat steel in there would have given some protection.
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| Damaged frame rail, notice the drivers side horn. I'll fix that before the car goes home |
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| After straightening, not perfect but a lot better. |
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| Now with a hardwood jacking point, black walnut no less. |
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| Radiator and fans before separation, soldering, cleaning and paint. |
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| Cleaned, fixed and painted |
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| Fan shroud painted with wrinkle paint, will look a lot better. Hope you all have a pleasant and thoughtful Memorial Weekend! "That's All Folks" Cheers, Lynn 4.5 hours *Big thanks to Terry T. for cutting the hardwood blocks for me |
The radiator repair and painting look great. And the shroud wrinkle paint does too. I need to paint the heater air duct in wrinkle paint before my car gets back. The original paint is on most of it, but they sprayed it with color when they painted the car many years back -- with a brush! Nice jacking wood too. Where do you find black walnut? Idaho seems to have some good, if hard to find, hardwood trees. When we were camping along the Middle Fork of the Salmon River back in the 90s the guides would have us look for a special hardwood for the nightly campfire that was among the other high water debris. I can't remember the name, but they really liked it for its hardness. I even kept a piece that I have in the new garage. Hope you and Jan are having a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteThanks Drew, heater air duct? I can't visualize that piece... Your not thinking of, OH, nevermind just dawned on me what your thinking of. I had a little trouble getting it to wrinkle the way it should have, it may not have been warm enough to get the thick wrinkles but it still looks better than it did so will leave it be.
ReplyDeleteThe black walnut came from my Mom's estate, my Dad used to build clock cases and it was in the rafters of their garage for 35-40 years. When my Mom passed I gave it to Terry who is a fantastic woodworker so he helped me out.
I'll bet they were looking for Tamarac, not real hard but sought after for it's burning qualities. Sounds like a fun time!
Hope your having a great weekend too! Thanks for posting,
Cheers,
Lynn
Don built my last jacking wood piece and I think I will need another fairly soon. I'll ask him about black walnut. My grandmother had back walnut trees in her front yard and I remember the nuts were dang near impossible to crack and had hardly any meat. But very tasty. The wood they asked us to find was not very big around and was strong as all get out. They just said it burned a long time was why it was good.
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