Roostre's 1967 C20

[Roostre]

Had another productive day today. First up, I sourced a new clutch fork return spring. It's a Dorman universal that you cut and bend the tail to whatever length you need. It was less than $5 on Amazon.

Next up, I spread a bunch of body filler on the patches that I welded into the fenders, door, grill, and bed.

While the body filler was curing, I decided to install my rear window. I have done this on this truck before, but it has been so long that I don't remember how I did it other than I did not use the rope method. I tried to do this last week with a pick, but the new seal is a little oversized and did not want to stay on the glass, so I got frustrated and stepped away before I accidentally broke the glass. This time, I decided to try the rope, I've never done this before. So I taped the seal to the glass, and threaded some rope into the seal starting and ending in the middle of the bottom of the glass. I started installing the glass. My wife wandered out to see what I was doing right when I was trying to figure out how I was going to navigate the bottom corners with the rope while holding the glass in place. I put her in the bed of the truck holding pressure on the glass while I pulled the rope the rest of the way around. Then I showed her how to tap on the glass while I pulled on the inner seal lip to seat the seal on the pinch weld. She did great, especially since she's never done anything mechanical before. If she had longer arms, I would recruit her to help with the windshield!

Once we got the glass in, my body filler was cured so I sanded it down. It's not perfect, but like everything else on this truck it's good enough and definitely better than it was.

I was on a roll today, so I didn't get any pictures. I may go out and snap some of the finished body filler tomorrow. Next up I need to get the hood on and start sanding to get ready for primer. I'm still hopeful that the weather will cooperate enough to get the rest of the paint on her yet this fall.