The Resurgence of Ruby

Couple of pics of the re-dyed carpet back in. Sorry for the out of order pics, as the below carpet pics are on junior's camera which he lent to a friend. More stuff coming soon. Did NOT take any pics of the power steering hose replace. It got pretty bad, about a pint every 20 miles.....lots of undercoating for him, lol

Also swapped out the window switch cover on the pass front door, to one that matches colorwise.




2 cans of 'dye' from Advance Auto, medium gray. Looked pretty dark at first, but alot better once it got in the car.
Probably could have used a third can as it looked a little stripey in a couple of spots, but once in, not so noticeable.

While I was out of town for 3 weeks, junior took it upon himself to pull the drivers door panel and pop the window arm back into the slider so the drivers window works proper like now. Kudos for him. Got a set of manual seat rails for the pass side, so by tomorrow he'll have a passenger seat bolted down (he's cleaning and painting them today as they were surface rusty from sitting in a mosuito farm of a car at the JY (pool of standing water in the cabin, thousands of little blood suckers while we unbolted them)

hard at work

have a 9c1 cluster and dash surrond to go in, along with a few other goodies.

Yo save that for Thanksgiving, I'm coming down that day LOL

Like that sound deadening!!!

Curious about that Lowes/Home Depot sound deadener.Does it work as well as the high dollar
stuff and will it stick to the roof in the future as well as the good stuff?

Ive used it in a few wagons (currently in Jade). Not on the roof though...but I see no issue with it. Its the same stuff ( just not as thick and 1/3 the price ). It works and is better than nothing.

Let's put it this way. As soon as we got on the road in my OCC after Chris drove out of the airport garage I noticed the difference. How you may ask? The blue OCC is my 10th wagon and it was noticebly quieter. It took me two rolls to do Ruby. I will be doing it in every car I pull the carpet out of from now on. Wasn't very expensive at all, find it in the roofing section.

Stingroo wrote:

Yo save that for Thanksgiving, I'm coming down that day LOL

Deal, it's all wired up, you can copy the pin out.

It functions?

What is that deadener called and where was it purchased?

Gastt wrote:

What is that deadener called and where was it purchased?

Lowes is where I buy mine...

About how much does a roll cost? It looks rather thin I would probably double up on the floor.

I redid my floors in this stuff. Cheap ($3 or so a roll) and effective. Good for rust control too

It's thin but heavy, single layer is all you need. It has tar or someting in it. I was surprised how heavy it was. I got mine at Home Depot in the roofing section, I thought it was more than 3 bucks though but it was fairly cheap.

I went to home depot last night the only stuff they had there was $16 a roll. I'll have to check out another HD or a Lowes.

That was it...it's about $13 a roll at Lowes down here. Not sure what Robert got for $3 though...

Okay, finally got the cluster swap done up to a point. Only issue is the woodgrain on the dash surround, doesn't match the doors or the spear on the right side. For now, we decided to black out the spear with electrical tape to see how that goes. I voted to black out the AC vents OCC style to tie into the seats better, but was nixed on that deal.

Ran a wire from the tach out to the ign coil and spliced it in. Went out with the ebrake cable through the firewall the up between the wheelhous and the fire wall and dress it out with a tie wrap on the accelerator cable.


Here we are with oil pressure (put the sending unit in during oil change today) and RPM!!! Wooot!



Dash back in almost there (bottom cover still off in this pic)


View from the back seat


Another view


The center console is just sitting there. We have a grey one with a center shift, but he's not sure if he wants it or not. For now, it's there. I think we are going to Two-tone, grey and charcoal to spruce it up a bit.

Sprocket wrote:

Ran a wire from the tach out to the ign coil and spliced it in. Went out with the ebrake cable through the firewall the up between the wheelhous and the fire wall and dress it out with a tie wrap on the accelerator cable.

THANK YOU! I have been wondering for ages where to run that wire to on the coil.

I could have told you. Fool.

I did ask you fool! And you told me to run it to the ECU

That's what I was told. Then I got new info. :p

It was a tight fit. Luckily the car is 20 years old and grommet is kinda hard and dried out so there was a little bit of space. I used 16 gauge wire, stripped about 2 inches of insulation off the end and twisted the strands around a wire hanger and the taped to make the diameter progression as small as possible. Then pushed it down though the firewall and slowly (as not to scrape the insulation off) until I had enought to push it up to where we needed it. Was a lot easier with two people I would guess.

Stingroo wrote:

That's what I was told. Then I got new info. :p

That's what I told him, as I heard that from siljknot who sold me the cluster. I did find a reference and a link to that method, but the link was before the great crash of 2009 over on ISSF.

I spent an hour in manual trying find a Pinot for the ECU and found a page for the U11 cluster that showed the wire coming off the white from the coil to the cluster. Now there are two white ones, one goes to the distributor (I cut that one) and the other goes into the harness, so I'm guessing that's the one for the cluster but don't know where it pops up inside the cabin.

Works for me. Thanks for the rest of the info. That'll be the 1st thing I do when it comes out of the garage. I'd like a working tach, it's only been a year.

So a year and half later, Ruby is coming back into my life......

I took her back from my boy, after he bought the white 96K 92 wagon. I was planning on using her as a parts storage shed, however, my decision to sell the OCC will see her pressed back into service, while I complete the t56 swap into the 94 (I NEED a wagon on the road). She looks like hell right now and needs a tune up and a headliner, but the AC blows cold.

Glad to see this one is going to come back to life.

Pull a Crovo and paint it a flat color. Cheap and easy and will look a lot better.

Keep the updates coming!

-Mike

Looking forward to seeing your progress!

ordered a tune up kit today.

Need to pull the headliner and fix the rust in the roof, then respray the car in a flat. Haven't decided on a color but want to do at least a two tone, FL is too hot for black

Looking forward to seeing her back on the road.

Is that a 67-68 Cougar peeking out of the garage?

autoarcheologist wrote:

Looking forward to seeing her back on the road.

Is that a 67-68 Cougar peeking out of the garage?

1968, 95K one owner as my wife's Mom bought it new. Need to work out the details of the title as she has passed and her Dad can't locate the original title . Unfortunately, it sat in a different garage for 16.5 years and the top of the fuel tank rusted away. I've had it for about two years, and haven't done much with it yet....

Still, what a great story, and a one family car. I'm sure with a little work it could be a runner again, I've saved much worse.

I almost inherited a 68 Mustang GT convertible in high school, but of course it didn't work out. But I was happy to have the '74 Valiant, at least I had transportation!

As soon as my t56 is in my 94 wagon, she'll be getting a new stainless tank and the carb tumbled

As I pulled this thread up for reference on sound deadening for another thread, I'll throw out a quick update.

I swapped back in the 9C1 cluster as my boy had swapped it out to put in his new car (it sat on the workbench for two months and I claimed it), Replaced the front wheel bearings as they were getting pretty noisy, and some other general maint items.

Trying to figure out which color spray paint prior to WF as I will NOT have the t-56 done in time (haven't started and working on my bathroom still).

Leaning toward olive drab with the Flying Tigers shark mouth on the side or something WWII throwback kinda look for fun.

Also thinking trying to buy a single stage red and try spraying it myself...

My vote is for the WWII theme.

Buy single stage olive drab and spray.

Check out the Earlex 3500 HVLP spray turbine you can get various size brass spray tips for it for automotive paints and lagrer tips for plastic dip. Jeff

Battleship Gray with big white numbers....

I'm thinking: USS RUBY CC69

I thought about making a turret for the roof with a plastic laundry bucket and some schedule 40, lol

Jeff when I bought my compressor it came with a classic spray gun (not HVLP), so I'd most likely use that


this is a little too big of a mouth and well beyond my painting abilities...

Took a little bit to notice the turret on the rear side of the van, I was thinking of a tank turret on the top! One of those could be mounted to the roof rack and taken off when going for a drive over 5 mph!

Naval Camouflage

Well I wnt in a different direction and no pics until Friday so I can surprise everyone.

For Robert and everyone else that will critique the 30 foot paint job. Bite me. I'm pissed off about how it went down (literally, how the paint went down). The body prep was rough and I I only had 150 grit so there are lots of scratches showing. It was windy and 88 degrees so it was hot and breezy which caused the paint to not go on right...... I did a much better job on Grimace and in less time.

It took 4 days to get the old paint off the hood as it was so bad I had to strip it clean and it still looks like ass as I didn't have time to skim and smooth it. At one point I made a command decision to change the primary color and the paint I got was shooting out like textured stuff despite what the labels said. I gave up and went back to the first color, but now the A-pillar is sort of textured as I simply have run out of time to fix it all.......It's a mad scramble between now and Friday to put it all back together again. It is what it is at this point. I hope I have time to at least clean the rims....

That said it looks GREAT from 25 feet away, lol

Idea for new Flamingo award. "Best paint from at least 25ft.away."

Don't want to be accused of inventing categories where I'm the sure winner, lol

Can we at least see some pics?

I would NEVER critique your work (to your face )
It will be fine... no matter HOW bad it is.....

stewzer55 wrote:

Can we at least see some pics?

Tomorrow night I'm sure some pictures will surface...

Superior Finish wrote:

I would NEVER critique your work (to your face )
It will be fine... no matter HOW bad it is.....

The Great Chalkboard of 2011 proves that.

Ive had the same frustrations on some paint projects.... lets see the photos. Jeff