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Good fix, I was completely off with what I thought was wrong.

What did you use for the filler between the Trunk skin and the trunk frame?

Doright wrote:Good fix, I was completely off with what I thought was wrong.

What did you use for the filler between the Trunk skin and the trunk frame?

This: https://www.ebay.com/itm/274444263990
It was recommend by someone on the forbidden site who has used it a number of times.

On the hood and roof skins, I used this: 3m 4274 Duramix NVH

Installed the trunk lid and got is sprayed with 2 coats of epoxy.


Moving on to some spots of rusted metal that I need to replace.

Once I get everything rust free and in epoxy, I can start working on getting it all ready for paint.

Trunk lid looks amazing!

Thanks. It still needs some work before painting but all in all, I'm glad it fits as good as it does.

It always amazes me how quickly and efficiently things get done in the hands of a pro.
Nice work.
Im more like 4 hours googling to one hour of work.Then 3 hours to fix.

Dismantled the steering column today.


Needed to get it all apart and cleaned up for painting.
The steering wheel is going to need a lot of work. You can see it is quite discolored and weathered.


It has a few small chunks out of it as well:


A reproduction wheel, without any extras, is about $400 plus tax and shipping. So it looks like I will be resorting this one.

Steering wheel restoration YOU have my attention!

What products will you use ? PC7 ? JB weld? or????? I have heard good and bad about both.

I was going to use Polyvances products to do my 57, I have had good luck with their products in the past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hchiLpoXWE

Trunk looks fantastic by the way.

One guy used 3M 08237 semi-rigid urethane to repair much larger cracks, then epoxy primer, base and clear. His was a black steering wheel and it came out looking great.

Another guy, thoroughly cleaned his steering wheel and then over a couple of days simply applied multiple coats of epoxy. Sanded it and then shot base and clear.

I'm leaning toward the second method right now.

Mine has some heavy cracking and pulling of the original material, I am leaning toward the methods and material used in the Polyvance video.
I have the stuff they use in the video its not hard to use and sands easily enough and is very tough once it set up, and bonds well to many plastics I have not seen any signs of shrinking on parts I have tried using it on.

I used it to make a part from scratch and repair other parts of my f250 headlight adjusters worked out very good.