Rubber, Rubber Who’s Got The Rubber?

Well, the rub­ber issue has been resolved, my final con­ver­sa­tion with Rub­ber The Right Way on Wednes­day had them blam­ing the snafu on Steele Rub­ber and telling me the ear­li­est they could expect the ship­ment was next week.  I can­celed the order and to their credit, they issued an imme­di­ate refund and the next day I placed the same order with Steele Rub­ber, all of the items were in stock (huh?) and they shipped it the same day with a deliv­ery expected tomor­row.  End of the issue in my book.….….….

This week­end I fin­ished tak­ing the dash apart and prep­ping for paint­ing, I had hoped to be done with it by now but the steer­ing wheel put up quite the fight and it took me more than 2 days to get it off.  I tried every­thing with­out suc­cess, finally I put the puller back on, had Paul help me and we cranked it down until it would not budge any fur­ther.  After swear­ing at it for 5 more min­utes, we decided to use a pipe on the ratchet for more lever­age and decided we would just keep crank­ing it down until it either let go or some­thing broke.  When it finally let loose, it went off like a gun­shot and I really thought the ratchet shat­tered, but it was in fact the wheel finally com­ing loose after 52 years.

I spent the rest of the Week­end clean­ing and paint­ing the rest of the inner fender pieces get­ting them ready to install, they have all new splash rub­ber on and a fresh coat of under­coat on the exte­rior sur­faces.  The inte­rior side of the roof has been primed and painted to elim­i­nate any rust down the road and it is ready to have the new head­liner installed at a later date, it will be one of the final items to go in.  I sent the rear pas­sen­ger side win­dow out for replace­ment as it had a small crack in it that man­aged to grow as I was putting it back in the door, the glass com­pany sent it back say­ing they were afraid to take the frame apart for fear of dam­ag­ing it.  Five min­utes with a screw­driver, a ham­mer and a block of wood and I had it apart for them, now they are able to cut the glass and I need to go back and pick it up tomorrow.

Final note, Sat­ur­day I left a mes­sage for Gary at Cadil­lac Inter­na­tional about the rear fender mould­ing that is still miss­ing in action since being ordered and paid for July 7th.  He never returned the call but I’ll give him the ben­e­fit of the doubt, maybe he was away for the week­end.  Accord­ing to my pre­vi­ous call, he promised that it was going to be shipped on the 21st or 22nd, we’ll just have to wait and see what the new week brings.…

Until next time.….….….

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