It's been so long since I did some work on the Dodge, well, really just a few months, but still, too long of a pause when I was working on the car on and off for the greater part of the year with only brief pauses while I waited for parts. Well after having stopped working on the car for the last few months, keeping in my mind the few things I still need to get to finish the car enough to get it running and driving, I finally had a chance to get some more parts.
After scrapping the Grand Prix, I had enough money to get a few parts for the Dodge. I focused on the remaining brake parts and the ignition parts. This included the set of brake calipers and pads (hopefully I won't need a master cylinder), and the distributor, spark plugs and wires. Some stuff was bought on Ebay while some stuff was bought at auto zone since the prices were close enough or better at auto zone. I had to order the calipers and the distributor from Ebay. The brake pads, spark plugs and wires came from auto zone. With that I went ahead and installed the spark plugs and the wires, situating them in a way where they should be able to be plugged right to the distributor when I do drop it in. Along with that little bit I did go ahead and install the battery that was in the Explorer, since for all intents I'm probably not going to really be continuing to work on that vehicle. The other thing that I did after the battery was install a conduit clamp to the fender apron right by the electric fuel pump in order to cradle the fuel pump. The clamp is for 2" diameter pipe. I had to drill a 5/16" hole in the metal right above the frame to secure the clamp with a single 5/16" bolt. I also had to cut a couple of pieces of old hose to use as insulators for the fuel pump body. After cutting 2" lengths of hose I cut the pieces the long way then opened the pieces up a wrapped them around the fuel pump prior to clamping the pipe clamp around the unit. This made everything be nice and tight and secure. With that I just need to get the distributor and calipers so I can assemble those items and hopefully when I bleed the brakes I won't discover that the master cylinder is shot. We'll see. The other thing I did was clean up a small mess that was on the Scion's driver's side door. Apparently someone glued the mirror or something on the mirror and must've gotten carried away with the glue to the point that glue ran down the door. Of course once the shit dried it wasn't going anywhere. I tried using some shit remover geared for automotive paint and that really didn't do shit. I tried using a steel wool pad and even that didn't help and I didn't want to just keep scrubbing to the point that I mess up the finish. I ended up using a razor scraper and just carefully scraped the surface at the glue to get the glue removed with minimum damage to the paint finish. All in all I was pretty successful with removing the glue from the door. The only spot I couldn't get was on the plastic trim at the bottom of the door as the razor immediately dug into the plastic. I'll probably have to sand that off whenever I come around to finishing the bodywork and going ahead and painting the car. Otherwise, everything looks pretty good.
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