you are doing a good job on all your patches..... mine has all the same rust in the front.. rear is all good .
A wise man told me that good welders don't like to grind ..... Well i am not a good welder! here are some pics after the grind so i am not a great welder but i am getting better as the days of this car go on. I am still plugging away out here looking forward to warmer weather so i can get out here more often it sucks when you have to wait for 1.5 hours before you can do anything because the garage is to fucking cold to even move in.
glad to see progress dude... one chunk at a time. remember, you're savin a car because of rust damage 99% of em would shake a head at and walk away from
stubborn ain't the word for it my wife loves this car it's gotta get done i imagine me and Tracy and our son rolling to shows in it I have a motor from a great friend ottoman on here and the transmission is laying here ready for a block to get mocked in Before me and some friends started on the bottom end of this thing when you jacked the front end of the car up the doors popped open... The car is up on 4 jackstands with no issues now. Just gotta keep going on this bitch get it on the road. Gotta remember that front drivers door wasn't held on by anything but a hope and a prayer it opens and closes like a brand new car now.
Go for it man. Regardless of the welds, and you ARE getting better, saving a rustbucket is commendable!
NO welder like to grind! A good welder just doesn't have to, or doesn't have to much. You're improving, practice makes perfect ya know! I teach basic MIG and Stick welding at a local tech school. I tell my students that by the time they are halfway through the class over half of them will be better at welding than I am. They weld for about three hours a night two nights a week (plus every other Saturday morning... classes are four hours, breaks/prep/cleanup takes up one hour). I show them a few, tell them what I did wrong, and get them to work. So I don't do a lot of welding. I don't practice before a demo either. I just set everything up and start. I'll screw up the first few and just tell them what I did wrong and what I'm going to do to correct it. If I luck up and get a perfect bead the first time I just run with that too. I might have to intentionally do something wrong just to show them what can happen, but I usually don't. Takes me a few feet of beads to get back in the groove...
Neat little car! I remember one of my dad's friends having one of these. I couldn't resist doing a Photochop of it.
ok ottoman did the begging our friend Jimmy has the motor and the two of them will hopefully be putting it together for me. If i did it myself it would never run
Well i have some mock up parts here at the house for the rambler i realize it's a v6 but a lot really doesn't fit in these cars so go ahead and give me your worst for not having a traditional engine in a car that i won't open the hood on anyways
Hey, if Dr Goggles and the Aussies can go 200 in a bellytank with one You should be able to travel I90 at 80mph!!!!
Building it to actually drive? V-6 is a good choice! Enough power, and can afford gas to drive it around more often! That's why I have a 4.0L AMC/Jeep straight six in mine! Left the EFI on and gave it a better cam and a few other goodies, but it gets decent gas mileage and has enough power to keep up with most cars on the road too.
Gerg has balls the size of a Buick, most people would have run away screaming Mommy! I dig that wagon,especially the rear view trim line across the back and on to the fins. The Cross Country Custom is a super rare model, good save, I hope you are saving all the original badges, they are so cool. I am very impressed with this pal, keep it up. The child is adorable bro!! ~sololobo~
That's the one reason I shyed away from Ramblers.. rust! I've had 2 in the past and they sure do love to rust.. up front, cowl area... you must REALLY like Ramblers to take on such a project... !
They don't rust much more (if any) than other unit body cars of the period. Prior to 62 lots of them rust out pretty easy, especially from up north. The cheaper the cars was used the less likely it was taken decent care off (washing salt from underneath on occasion), so the more likely/faster it would rust out. Ramblers were cheap second/winter cars for a long time...
4.0 Jeep straight six should go in without to much trouble. I believe they were based on the same block that was original to the Rambler. And since they been building it since 1960, most of the bugs have been worked out. Still quite a bit of after market go suff available also. Jeep motors with 200K on them are just getting broken in.
Wow Greg that is some major work......I still have some work to do in a couple places of the floor in my rambler. But damn man your taking on a hell of a project. Great work stick with it. I will get mine on the lift tonight and take some pic's. Anything other than the rear suspension you want? Are you air bagging this one?
plym 46 is correct, but that would be late 64+ 199/232/258, not the 56-65 six. The early one (195.6 OHV or flat-head) is a totally different animal, way different mounts and all.
Yes i am planning on doing bags on all corners eventually but i have a ways to go before that happens. all pics of your suspension setup would be great I just can't wrap my head around how to do that backend properly
Did some junkyard recon today, windshield looks good but hood does not. The other one that was there was an earlier model, totally different. Not sure if there was other stuff you were looking for or not.
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