Leaking rear window, dammit.

I was yesterday at the garage to do a clean up on those rear window corners and as I scrape and poke that surface rust away, I noticed how the sound was a different on that tight corner. As I poke and scrape a bit more it revealed a rusty edge of sheet metal.

As you can see it's straight through, but that light that you can see is inside c-pilar which doesn't lead to inside the cabin. And it wasn't that bad before I started poking it with a screwdriver. So now I have to cut it up and make a template from cardboard and make a small piece from the sheet metal to fit in and spot weld it in place. And same thing to the other side.

I was affraid that it was this bad and I was relieved that it wasn't as I post on my last post, but now I am a bit of stressed. I know how to use welder and bend the steel, but it's always a bit of work for me as I am not used to fabricate sheet metal for tight spots and corners. It takes time and patience. I was hoping that this would have come to me when I have planned whole stripping down to bare metal and do it propeply.

Well now I guess I have to do it because I have the window off and there are still time left before I'll take her out in the open road for a drive. Driving season is planned to start in mid-May. So till next time I'll be in the garage and keep you updated on how this little project goes on.

Rear window leaking.

 It wasn't a huge suprise that rear window leaked on the lower corners. El Camino
s are know that it has a weak spot on those corners. Luckily mine was just that sealer rubber had turned hard by ageing and not the rust eating all healthy metal around the corners. Minor surface rust of course which can be sanded of and sealed in with rust preventing paint.

It was really hard to cut that old sealer rubber. I don't know how many times that piano wire broke in half when we tried to "saw".

So, next move is to grind all that rubber and surface rust off and paint it and put the window back on. I could do it propeply now, but I know that in few years I'll have to address whole car with rust and I have planned stripping it don't and send it to sand blasting or likewise to get all the rust off. There aren't really a point to do it right now in a one spot and then stripping it down in few years. Right?

That's all folks for now. I'll be updating as soon as possible when I get grinding and sanding done.

The El Camino Social media uprising!

Last night my facebook.com/Camino70/ fan page hit 600 likes! That's awesome! A little over month ago I had around 450 likes and I haven't been promoting facebook fan page and it hit 500 likes in mid February and now it hit 600 likes! I mentioned that I need to make a something special for that 500th like, but I have been busy doing things that aren't related to my El Camino. And now it hit the 600th mark and I made post about doing something special, twice. So I now I have to think something special before we hit 700th like. Twice.

So, I haven't been garage since early February and I have some jobs to finish before this years driving season starts. No big jobs, but just those needs to be done before I hit the road again. And oh yeah, yearly inspection is also need to be done. That could have been avoided if I had done it last autumn but I rather drove around and postponed it till spring.

Weather is by the way awesome. I really should get those few jobs done so I can start the engine and cruise around back roads.