How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Jordan Baker]

Busy busy busy has been my life since mid August. Now its all back to normal again and Im happy.

Spent a few hours out in the shop today working on my dome lights.

The right side one is an original NOS light. The left side one has been made from scratch. I picked up 10 sockets on ebay for a few dollars and free shipping from China. Two months later they showed up. The orginal sockets were held on by rolling an edge over on the tabs. I decided for simplicity to solder them on. My next step is to redo the wiring with proper modern period style wires.

One thing I am looking for is a picture/details of the bracket these lights mounted to.

[Jordan Baker]

Finished the work on the spare tire carrier and tool box yesterday. This box is a copy that was made a number of years ago. I had to go back an do some minor work on a couple of details to make it closer to the originals. The pivot brackets for the clam shells and the hasp for the locks needed to be rebuilt. Lastly the clam shell retainers were made as the one original I had was rusted out.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

Finished the work on the spare tire carrier and tool box yesterday. This box is a copy that was made a number of years ago. I had to go back an do some minor work on a couple of details to make it closer to the originals. The pivot brackets for the clam shells and the hasp for the locks needed to be rebuilt. Lastly the clam shell retainers were made as the one original I had was rusted out.

Great job Jordan! Would you be so kind to post the dimensions of the pivot brackets for the clam shells? These were rusted out on mine, so I need to re manufacture them.

Thanks in advance!
Hanno

[Jordan Baker]

Sure Hanno. Ive got the rusted right and left originals still at home.

[Jordan Baker]

Figured out the hole issue for mounting the tool box today. Drilled the holes and eveything lined up really well. I did a final fitting and then pulled it all off to repaint the bottom and do some touch ups. I even tried out fitting the tool box into the tool box.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Lovely work again Jordan!

Alex

[Jordan Baker]

Rebuilt the steering gear box and the steering wheel this past week. Thankfully it didn't involve too much work as the internals were all in really good shape. Everything measured up well within the specs. I did the usual POR15 treatment for the case and the tube. A new wire was run for the horn connection between the button and the contact brush. One thing I wanted to clean up was the inside of the steering shaft as it had a lot of surface rust. I ended up using a 4' long steel rod with a slot cut in the end. I then wrapped some sandpaper into the slot. Put the whole thing into the tube then attaced my drill on the end and let it rip...errr..spin. A few minutes later I was done.