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Headlight door motor retrofit overview
The original RS headlight door setup is complicated, unreliable, and expensive. 1967 was an electric system, 68 and 69 were vacuum-operated. You can purchase aftermarket reproduction parts to re-create those. There are also a couple of aftermarket retrofit kits available. Here’s a relatively inexpensive retrofit that will operate the doors if you are not concerned […]
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Both Headlight Doors Test
I still need to take care of a bunch of details, but the basics are working!
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Mounting the headlight door motors
After playing around with the motors and the headlight bucket and door brackets, I decided the simples solution was to drive the original arm directly from the motor. I drilled holes in the bracket, mounted the motor, then made a D-shaped hole in a scrap 3/16” metal plate, and bolted it together.
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Headlight door motors
From what i can tell, this car was originally a base model (manual transmission) car. The RS pieces are OEM, probably from a wrecked car. The headlight doors did swing on their brackets, but none of the mechanism or wiring to open and close them were on the car when we got it. The original […]
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Heater case paint
A quick shot of black paint to seal up the rest if the ugly
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Heater case clean out
In addition to repairing the core leak, there was a mouse nest to clean up After some wire brushing and scraping:
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Heater core rebuilt
I got the heater core back from the rebuilder, looks great!
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Heater Core Repair
The weather here is getting cold, and although the heater is hooked up, the car wasn’t putting out any significant heat to the defroster or cabin. I took it for a drive a few days ago, and noticed this on the garage floor: Maybe it’s a loose hose connection inside the engine compartment? looks damp, […]
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Dummy Cigarette Lighter Element
When I had the center of the dash apart to fix the heater controls, I also replaced the cigarette lighter socket. I don’t smoke, but I wanted the socket to work so I could charge my phone, or run a GPS. The lighter element was rusted into the old socket, so when I pulled on […]
