{"id":4396,"date":"2024-02-27T10:34:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2024-02-27T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:34:41","slug":"weekly-update-2-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2024\/02\/27\/weekly-update-2-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Update, 2.26"},"content":{"rendered":"

From what little UPS has told me, my seat covers are gone. I had to go to the location I mailed them from and ask, and the guy went into the back of the office and looked and claimed they cut me a check at some point for $100 plus the amount I paid for shipping. Which also hasn’t arrived.<\/em> So I have to organize a meetup with Jeff somewhere between here and Pittsburgh to hand over the seats.<\/p>\n

My spare fuse block made it out to the Scout Connection<\/a> on Wednesday, and Dave called me to let me know it’s actually not the right fuse block for my truck. I asked if we could swap it for a correct used spare and call it even, and he was happy to do that. So that process should be underway, and hopefully I’ll get a harness in the mail sometime soon. I can’t wait to open that Pandora’s box<\/del> get that process started; having a working electrical system is one of the three biggest obstacles to getting this girl on the road.<\/p>\n

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I bought a basic hammer and dolly set<\/a> from Harbor Freight on Saturday morning and got to work hammering out the dents in the driver’s fender. It took a bit of time to understand how the tools worked; there’s a hammer with a small contact area on either side and a flat spoon for wider areas, as well as two solid steel dollies for the backside. I started with the hammer and quickly realized it was too small a contact patch, and switched over to the spoon almost exclusively. In a couple of hours I had the edge shaped correctly and most of the valleys flattened out, as well as the overall curve of the fender re-formed. Hanging it on the truck I was pleased to see it matching up with the body line really closely, and the panel gap looked really close. After a few more adjustments I re-hung it to confirm everything aligned, and then got things ready to skim some filler over top.<\/p>\n

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Sunday morning I had a little free time so I used the orbital sander to knock off the high spots in the filler and then skimmed a second coat over the fist; the filler portion of things is going to take a lot of time (as the other fender did) to flatten the large areas and also match the curve over the fender.<\/p>\n

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