Interior Work on Ms. American 3.14159

Originally Posted by ShotRod64

Did you figure out your fresh air to heater box thingy dilema?

Hey mon Deb,
Actually, I don't think it's going to be a full fledged dilemma. But it's going to get tricky.

They must of given you the wrong heater core. Mine when right in with the correct amount of spacing. The first one though was wrong and i had to take it back and exchange it. Been a while back so don't remember what the problem was now.

If this were a machined part, say an Intake Manifold, or a Cylinder Head, and the holes were off 1", there'd be lots of flak. That this is a fabricated part, and can be adjusted means that it just needs the aforementioned "massaging".

As for the "it must of been some poor guys job at Ford to be sure there's a glob..." That was just it. It probably was his only job all day long on every car that went through. A glob and stick the part on then repeat or something to that effect.

So I'm working out a way that the thing will adhere to where it's going. I've done some preliminary checking on the situation, and there's still lots of the Gray/Black Goo still on the place where the flange goes.

A man came by my car at the big ford show in CA, I was out roaming so missed him, but his job was to place the piece of trim on top of convertible windshields and screw them down all day long.

And the big problem with doing that is keeping "Quality" as Job One!

So factory work most anyone can do because they only need to learn that one skill in which they will be doing all day. Like Dexter...and hearing Omeletter du fromage all night. Even I could do it...maybe.

"Omeletter du fromage"? "Dexter"? You could "maybe" do WHAT?

That's all he could say, they learn the job, that's all they do unless they can move up or something? Get promoted to mounting the heater box instead of globbing the goo. LOL

I've got the big ball of Gray/BlackGoo and I think I'm going to roll it out to about 1/8" thick, and then cut it into strips, and apply it like tape. Or maybe "weld" with it. Applying a "glob" of it and massaging/kneeding it into a single piece of stuff.

I'm also in the process of starting to think about putting the rear seat back in. That's going to take doing whatever to the floor where it had some surface rust. It should have some kind of coating of something. I'm thinking that in fact it needs a grid to keep the insulation off the floor so that water won't get there and cause more rust. I have some wire grids that could go under the rubberized insulation which would permit airflow, and that would keep moisture from getting trapped there. And it wouldn't show because it is all under the rear seat.

Then comes the actual re-installation of the Rubberized Insulation. I'm thinking of adhering it with some kind of fastener.

Then there's partition between the seat back and the trunk. There are a lot of things that need to be done the way it was done when they initially built the 3.14.

Anyway, I've got some other stuff to do .

Hope you are well.

JC