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1972 Charger SE Project by CDN72SE #834710
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Hi All, I figured I would record my restoration (it will move slowly) here as I spend a lot of time on the site reading and following others restorations. I am also on the 71-74 site. This is my Y8 1972 Dodge Charger SE Brougham (production date 7-71) that I purchased from Nigel at National Moparts it was a rust-free North Carolina car that was parked due to a bad transmission and brought to Canada. To keep it running and because it was also a 318 car I swapped in my old 318 & TorqueFlite 727 from my first SE and drove it for about 5 years. It was last registered and on the road in 1992. It's traveled with me from place to place waiting for a restoration. I guess it's time to track what I will be doing, I am not a mechanic (or a body guy) but I have enjoyed working on my cars since I was young. I learned a lot early on from not having a lot of money to pay someone else to do the work for me. Funny enough now in my 40s I still don’t have the money.

This is basically how I bought it in August of 1992, I put on my Western Turbine rims that I had on my previous SE. It did come with 14" Rallye's which I sold to a guy with a Challenger. Then I bought a set of 15x7 Rallyes from Motor City Originals. Shortly after getting it home I added the Year One front spoiler, I also added the dual cut-out exhaust rear valence from a '74, it was pretty rusted, I cleaned it up and painted it, thought it looked cool even though my exhaust was nowhere near the openings. I never would have thought that 17 years later there would be new ones being produced, thanks AMD.

I’m not sure on the colour, I could go original but I probably won’t. I’m just adding the parts to it that I like such as the Ramcharger hood, front & rear spoilers, buckets, console with shifter, R/T taillights, hood pins and a tachometer to replace the clock. As far as the engine I will probably go with a 360.

I'd love to hear any comments or suggestions guys/gals.



Those are P275/60R15's on the rear and up front P255/60R15's.


Rattle-can WAL-Mart black primer:




Yes it has the rear spoiler decklid cut-outs and yes it is the original '72 decklid.  :2thumbs:


Here she sits, March 2007 just after me moved to the new house, double-car garage... finally, now I'll have some room to work on it. Don't really have a budget, I'll probably fund some of it by selling some of my extra "back-up" pieces (yes still have a few). This will be a slow restoration that's for sure, I'll be doing as much as I can.


Removed the hood, decklid, fenders, doors, etc.


Not too bad behind the fenders:


Quite a bit of undercoating.


Some rear shots:



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Re: 1972 Charger SE Project by CDN72SE [Re: CDN72SE] #834711
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The car is pretty much fully covered with factory undercoating:


Couple of my 318 from my previous 72 that I installed in this car:


Rented an engine hoist from my local Stephenson's Rental, took me about two hours by myself (I did take my time) to get it out, as you can see I left the tranny attached and pulled it out as a unit. I had to let the air out of the two front tires to give me enough clearance over the radiator frame. Maybe I could have gone higher with the jack but was a bit fearful that my anchoring bolts on the engine may give way.


Transmission separated:


After 18 years the 318 is out again.


Rolled it outside, you definitely don't see anything like this in my neighbourhood.


Removed the torsion bars, wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, really had to whack them though.




Then I removed the 4 bolts for the K-Frame and dropped the whole assembly on to some blocks temporarily.


Here's the front suspension:



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Re: 1972 Charger SE Project by CDN72SE [Re: CDN72SE] #834712
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Rallye Wheel Center Caps

Decided to do a little cleanup of some '71 Rallye Wheel centre caps (appliques) that I bought off eBay, I have seven in total some are the correct dark (charcoal) colour for '71 and some are the argent silver for 1970. I loosely followed an article that I have from a June 1991 Musclecar Review magazine. Materials I used include: Eastwood's Charcoal Rallye Wheel paint, 000-grade steel wool, chrome polish, 3M masking tape, and new rallye wheel center cap inserts. This is the procedure I followed:

1. Use a fine grade scuff pad like a 3M or Scotch to rough up the area which will allow the paint to adhere. Be sure to get into all the hard-to-reach areas, like lug nut holes.

2. Use the steel wool to to clean the unpainted chrome areas and use a polish to then polish those areas.

3. Mask off the clean chrome areas with 3M masking tape, leave some overhang and then trim off the pieces with a sharp knife or razor blade. Mask the back of the holes to prevent overspray.

4. Then paint the cap keeping the spray approx. 18-30 inches away, remember to turn the cap around a few times to get all the areas and 100% coverage.


Here is the finish product, with a fresh coat of paint and a new center cap insert which I purchased off eBay. I think they look good enough and I spent about 1.5hrs and less than $40. The taping and masking was the time consuming part.


Interior
I had removed the interior years ago, originally gold with a benchseat. I replaced the bench with one green and one white bucket seat that I had purchased and some panels from my previous SE that had the blue interior. Some of the panels I painted black (bad vinyl spray) and the back seat. I think I'm going to go with a white interior. Still debating the exterior colour.


Some more, I still have one of the Chrysler issued trash bags that came with the car. POR-15, peeled in a lot of places, yes I followed the directions, that was applied in 1992.


Back seat area:


Trunk:


More - really not bad, the trunk has some surface rust and all floorboards are pretty solid.

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Re: 1972 Charger SE Project by CDN72SE [Re: CDN72SE] #834713
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Valances
That's the original '72 valance on the left and the one on the right is a '73 piece that I picked up NOS back in '92, I painted it in primer black and installed it on the car. It's still in excellent shape, but I'll be using the '72 (as everyone probably already knows they are different). The rear valance I had to buy, thought I'd better buy one just in case they decide to stop producing them.



Here is some evidence of where it was painted with some kind of black paint, even have the running paint to prove it. I often see a lot of these left body colour, maybe some are?


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Rear Brakes
Got out the wire brush and the rust encapsulator, these are 10" drums.


I had some red paint kicking around so used it on the drums as I'm using rallye's.


Think I had changed the rear shoes once since I've owned it, not sure if the hardware is original or not, I did order a kit.


Took care of the backing plates, one finished and one unfinished, I did the vinegar, lemon juice and salt method for removing rust on these. Did an excellent job.


I used some rust encapsulator, primer and then some of Eastwood's black steel rim paint that I have kicking around.


Got the wheel cylinder gaskets from DMT, the wheel cylinders from Canadian Tire and the riveted brake shoes from Napa.



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Headlight Buckets
Well I've got a few things on the go and trying not to get too far ahead of myself, been working on the rear leaf springs, rear brakes, heater box and headlight buckets. For now I'm concentrating on the headlight assembly and the heater box. So here are some pics of the start of my headlight and accessories re-fresh.

Drivers side fender with assembly attached:


Removed... not much to it, four bolts I'll bag those and clean them up later.


Took a bunch of shots of the position of everything for later:


Before cleaning, discovered the part numbers and paint marks, looks like we have red, orange and blue and I think black on the different cups, I have to record them:


Here's HI-LO-5-RT-.122 after a bath:


Here's one of the mounts after a little sanding and a few coats of Eastwood's Underhood Black Paint.


Next I'll finish cleaning the other parts, install the new headlight screws and hardware, reproduce the coloured stripes on the cups, polish the headlight rings and install the new sealed beams.



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Heater Box
Compared my original heater box to one I bought off eBay, hoping to make one out of the two, unfortunately the parts one got damaged during shipping. I should still be able to put the two together.

Original:


Donor:


What I'm working with:


Acouple more:


Last of the many pics I took:


Ordered a kit to do the rebuild, I'll update as I go along.

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Front Brakes & Components
Started to take apart the front brakes, I will clean up the calipers, maybe I'll rebuild them. Strip down the dust shields and paint them black as I do see that they had black paint on them. I bought new brake positioners and I have a pair of NOS hub grease caps.



Further taken apart:


Did a little painting:


More to come...


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Valances
That's the original '72 valance on the left and the one on the right is a '73 piece that I picked up NOS back in '92, I painted it in primer black and installed it on the car. It's still in excellent shape, but I'll be using the '72 (as everyone probably already knows they are different). The rear valance I had to buy, thought I'd better buy one just in case they decide to stop producing them .


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Crossmember
You can see how much undercoating I have on the bottom of this car, I plan on removing it. I guess some options are to just apply more undercoating over what's already there, leave it and patch or... what others have done use Lizardskin and re-cover the bottom. I have noticed in some spots where I have removed undercoating there is surface rust there so that leads me to believe that no everything is not going to be perfect underneath. I had gotten the car rustproofed over the years (Rustcheck) so I think that helped a lot and helped me dismantle the car with the basic tools I've always owned. I don't think I have ever broken a bolt.

The crossmember I'll de-grease and paint with Eastwood's Extreme Chassis Black. I bought a set of NOS crossmember bolts, they were cheap, mine were ok but all four were not the same. Does it make a difference? No, but hey they were NOS and now I can say I have some NOS parts.  

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Ramcharger Setup
Well here's some of my Ramcharger parts, looks like I am missing one end cap or flapper or whatever you call it. Think I will be ordering one from PG Classics. I've bought many parts from them and the delivery is quick and the packaging is very good and oh yes the parts are nice as well.  :2thumbs:






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Undercoating & Removal

Well, on sunday I got my propane torch and putty knife and decided to start removing the undercoating, I am planning on replacing it at some point. The bottom of the car is starting off very easily, I think mainly because I used to get the car rustproofed so it's kind of supple. I haven't come across any rust yet, I know there is a little bit of surface rust where the gas tank resides, there was no undercoating there as the undercoating was applied after all the components were already on the car. Needed the torch on the stuff in the wheel wells and the front wheel well area. I almost regret removing it but I didn't want to take a chance of their being rust present.

Here are some before pictures showing how much coverage the car has.




Gas tank area with a little surface rust:


You can see the little patch that is missing and how clean it is underneath:


Here are some progress pics, nothing too exciting:


The whole floorpan basically looks like this, I was trying not to scratch it too much with the putty knife.



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Rear Axle & Differential

Thought I'd do a little cleaning of the axle, what a lot of caked on grease. I may replicate some of the paint daubs and markings not sure yet. Main goal is to strip it down, prime it and coat it with some of Eastwood's Extreme Chassis Black. With the differential I think I'll hit it with some Detail Gray.



Differential:


Started to do some detail of the rear.



Took care of the pinion snubber. De-greased it, soaked it in some Evaporust, primed it and then painted it.


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Brake Pedal

Here is my brake pedal assembly that I just finished freshening up. Did it over a few days as time permitted. Here it is as removed from the car.





Disassembled:



Gave this part a little bath in the vinegar, lemon juice and salt solution. For the rest I used Evaporust, for light stuff I used the red scotchbrite pad and/or steel wool.



Cleaned up and painted:


These pieces I left their natural colour and coated with some of Eastwood's clear.


Here is a before shot:


Some more:


another, painted the whole thing with Seymour Stainless Steel paint and then sprayed over most of it with Eastwood's Underhood Black. Mine originally faded from black paint to bare steel.



Here it is all back together, wasn't hard to do and I think I'll move on to the emergency brake next.



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What a great job you are doing! Thanks for taking the time to do a step by step process with photos...alot of this info will help me with my Satellite.
Keep it up!
Mark


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Thank you Mark, your comments are much appreciated.

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I really like your car and what you're doing with it. Keep up the good work.

Sheldon

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Thanks Sheldon.

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Just picked up one of the blemished Tuff repro wheels from Dale's Cuda Shop, it's the one on the left. Nice part.


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Cleaned up and painted the Wheelhouse Vapor Canister & Shields.

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After:


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Bucket Seats

My car was originally a benchseat model, ember in colour. I replaced that soon after I got the car with a pair of mismatched buckets; drivers side is white and passenger green. Both I painted with some cheap vinyl spray, duct tape and cheap seat covers.

I recently ordered some white front seat covers from Dante's. The plan is to colour match the interior with the front seats, I'll be switching the interior from black to white. Here's the seats as they sit.  :'(




Recently received my covers from Dante, very nice Legendary covers, I'll tackle these myself a little later.



Some interior color change. I lightly went over the panels with a scotchbrite pad on some of the scratches and followed the SEM procedure, here are some of the results:









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Not too much to show lately, still removing paint from around the trunk and front & rear window gutters. Not very interesting stuff so I've kind of been starting other little projects as an aside.

Figured I'd take the plunge and buy a new Spectra gas tank, of course it's cheaper to buy it in the States and have it shipped to Canada, even though it's Canadian made there is not much choice as to where to purchase it here and it's more than double the price. Mine is dented quite a bit, so to avoid hassles I thought I'd purchase new.



Here's my new tank, what a beauty.



Test fit the tank:




Started going through my stash of Slapstick shifter stuff, before AMD came out with theirs I purchased some original brackets off ebay. I'm going from column to floor shift.



I also started stripping the front and rear bumper brackets. Will use some rust encapsulator on them followed by some eastwood's extreme chassis black.







Got the rear bumper guard brackets finished up as well, one NOS and the other has some slight surface rust that I removed after soaking in Evaporust for a few hours:


Here they are after a couple coats of Eastwood's Rust Encapsulator and Chassis Black, with original nuts and clips:


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Hidden Headlight Grille

I'll put the refresh of my grille here as I work on it. Not a bad set-up does have a bit of the usual pitting but not too bad and nothing broken.



Did some masking and used Eastwood's Underhood Black.



Added the DODGE emblem, going for a similar look to the 71 style.



Here's the grille surrounds:


Got the surrounds done, still need to polish the chrome, I'm happy with the results. Here's a couple pics.



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**Edit, after all that I decided to go with the '71 setup.


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Got the front sway bar finished.





Used Eastwood Chassis black, Seymour's Stainless steel paint and the bushings are Moog.


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Received my set of KYB shocks from Just Suspension, these are to replace the set I last bought in 1991. I was tempted to re-use them because the car has mostly been off it's suspension all these years. I did have to cut the two rears off so that swayed me to buy a new set. They are sort of a dark silver colour, look good but I thought I would paint them black, three more to go.

I paid US$125 for the set, in 1991 I paid CAD$105 just for the front!


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EXCELLENT write up! Excellent pics too.

Don't worry about the speed of the progress, as long as you're making progress!



John

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Thanks John and I love that wagon.

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CDN72SE – Great project car! We look forward to more updates. What do you plan on doing with the car when you’re done? If you’re going to drive it hard, you may want to consider at least upgrading the front sway bar . Dodge didn’t put great sway bars on their early musclecars, in fact some didn’t even come with one.


Re: 1972 Charger SE Project by CDN72SE [Re: Hotchkis] #834739
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Your doing a bang up job!attention to detail is first rate.....its always satisfying to do the hard stuff yourself!keep up the good work....look foward to seeing it come together and on the road...

Re: 1972 Charger SE Project by CDN72SE [Re: Joesixpack] #834740
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Thanks a lot Joe that means a lot, I don't get much encouragement on the home front. Alan.

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Thanks for checking out my little thread, lol. I have seen your sway bars and I have seen them on a '72, very nice. Don't think I'll be doing much hard driving but I have been considering one when the price is right. I'm also considering a rear bar.

Re: 1972 Charger SE Project by CDN72SE [Re: CDN72SE] #834742
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Small update, got the rear drums finished.

Got the wheel cylinder gaskets from DMT, the wheel cylinders from Canadian Tire and the riveted brake shoes from Napa.


Re: 1972 Charger SE Project by CDN72SE [Re: CDN72SE] #834743
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Rear Taillights

Decided to take a look at these this past weekend, I have one NOS black and one a nice argent taillight. The plan is to re-finish them both with the tri-colour effect, black, grey (or darker argent) and argent. I am not too concerned with them looking OEM exact. I've got so many different cans of silver, argent, aluminum, grey it's getting nuts so whatever I have on my shelf that is the closest I think I will use.

Here's the black bezel.



and the argent:



Started masking:


Got it painted:


Ready to spray some argent I had kicking around for the outer part of the bezel:


Thought I'd share my mistake, I painted these two bezels two weeks apart and somewhere along the line I mixed up the finishing paint, one I used Eastwood's Spray Gray and the other is Detail Gray. I think the top is Detail Gray, when I have made the correction I'll straighten it out.  :brickwall: Well at least I have two different samples.



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Thanks Darren.

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Really impressive you are doing great work! keep the pictures coming. Awesomeeeeee

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Thank you very much Dennis and I've been watching your build, very nice work you are doing on your '73 I can't wait to see it finished.

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everything is looking nice.


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License Plate Brackets - Rear

Not in too bad of condition, let's see if I can clean it up a bit, here are some before shots.





After:





Last one:



Front

Soaked in Evaporust & then a couple coats of Eastwood's Rust Encapsulator.



Then sprayed with Extreme Chassis Black:


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Awesome job your doing my friend.
I'm doing the same to a 71. Nut and bolt rotisserie restoration. Just keep plugin away a little at a time.

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Keep up the good work!!

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Thanks Rich & John.

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Is that silver type paint the rust bullet?


Looks awesome btw

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Hey your doing a great job, love the pics I wish I had the time to document my car like you are doing, but I never seemed to have the time. Looks like your starting off with a nice solid car, it will save you a ton of money in the long run, keep up the good work. By the way what color are you painting it.

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Thanks, the silver paint is Seymour's Stainless Steel on some parts and the license plate holder I used Eastwood's Galvanized paint.

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Hey your doing a great job, love the pics I wish I had the time to document my car like you are doing, but I never seemed to have the time. Looks like your starting off with a nice solid car, it will save you a ton of money in the long run, keep up the good work. By the way what color are you painting it.




Thanks, much appreciated. I only have the time because I probably won't have body and paint done for at least another year so I'm taking my time with the small things. I'm going back and forth on color but I'm leaning toward B5 Blue or Y9 Tawney Gold Poly.

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Rust Bullet

Applied the first coat this past Sunday and used about half of the one gallon container; I did the engine compartment, the interior, tail panel and most of the trunk, I used a sponge roller.

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Few more:













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Did a little fender clean up as well.

old Walmart primer which wasn't the best idea:


Not looking too bad:


Fun stuff, not too bad to get off and the metal is perfect underneath:


Fast foward and I realize that I will not be able to get into all the nooks and crannies so I decide to take my pair of fenders to Technostrip (www.technostrip) which is close by here in Brampton, Ontario. $300 for the pair, came out really nicely and just so nice to see so clean. Here are a few shots:

First:


Second:


Last:



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Dash:

Front Speakers:

Still doing little things here and there, saw some other members doing this so I thought I would give it a try as well. Bought the two speaker template from 74 Sport (Jerry).



Bought a pair of 3.5 Infinity speakers:


Painted the bracket and removed the plastic ring from the speakers:


Backside:


In the dash frame:





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Have the k-frame kicking around the garage so I thought I would start sprucing it up a bit. Unfortunately I did not loosen the front nuts on the strut rod when they were attached to the LCA's and on the car. This makes it a bit more difficult to keep the rod from spinning when turning the nut.



Did a search on the topic and read about the idea of using a torsion bar tool, have one of those, now I have a second use for it.



Tightened it and stepped on it with my 245lbs and turned.

Success



I purchased Moog kit K7026, but I think I may end up just buying the bushings and re-use my original parts. Yes these are the originals that were on there.

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Door Hinges
My door's have never closed (hinged) correctly and I was never really sure what part(s) I may be missing for the hinges. One side had a roller the other didn't, one side had the little piece the roller rolls on and the other didn't and the hinges were just loose.

Many years ago I bought the door pin and bushing repair kit from the local parts store (Canadian Tire) and had it laying around, then I thought I may need something better. so I purchased the Door Hinge Pin Kit you see on the right in the first picture.



Bought the drill bit and gave it a shot, had a hard time with the drill bit and then gave up. Figured I would bite the bullet and get the hinges rebuilt instead of buying the new AMD hinges. Searched around with what others were saying and decided on SMS.



Here they are cleaned up and lubed and the rods and rollers look very solid, better than originals.

When received:


lower hinges:


Upper hinges:


Close up of pin:


Another view:


Lower installed:


Upper installed:


My car is nowhere near ready and I only installed the doors to get them out of the way but it's nice to see the doors open and stay open and close smoothly.

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Rear Defogger
Rather simple just took apart, soaked some parts in Evaporust and others I stripped and repainted. The finish may not be exactly correct but in my opinion looks better.
















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Here is the car on the way to our new downsized house. Where am I gonna put everything, lol.



Arriving, was fun watching it "drive" down the road.



Currently looking for someone local to take the car on for body work and paint, finding it a bit challenging. Will talk to a couple of shops next week before the Canadian long weekend Thanksgiving.

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Hit the road early Saturday morning, off for body and paint.



Waiting patiently...


Safe and sound  :2thumbs:


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Getting ready for media blast and seal, fenders, doors, trunk lid, valances and hood off.




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Just picked up a fan shroud for my 26" radiator:


and some fan shroud nuts and clips:

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A few pics of the car after being stripped and coated with some sealer primer.








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First day of spring, thought I'd take a trip out to the shop.

Here she is sitting next to a rare Ford.



Primered inside and out, bottom stripped of all undercoating (what was left) and primered.


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Just two little pin holes on the drivers side rear lower quarter.



Well you can see the mistake from my youth, 5 spoiler leg support holes instead of 4.  :brickwall: Will be welded instead of electrical tape being there.


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Driver's door, not bad, couple of small dings and a little damage from not having the door hinges do their job properly along the front edge of the door.



Passengers door, one little ding and a dent that's been there since the late 80's, soon to be gone.


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Passenger fender, rust-free and nice shape.



Driver's fender has a few more dings:


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The Hood  :2thumbs: looking good, just some minor work, there's my cars notebook, outlining what we have discussed about the car and kind of a record log.



Looking forward to this view as I have not been behind the wheel since 1992.


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Interior shot, some pin holes on the drivers side floor, not bad at all, also my AMD front and rear valences sitting inside.



Have to figure how to treat the corner part that has had some rust damage near the bottom of the window.


Blasting cleaned this area up better than I did.



The three tape references say it all, not bad.


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The repairs have started!



Common rust area, will be fixed right, passenger side lower windshield.



Area previously stripped:
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The extent to any cowl damage, just some pinholes, again on the passengers side:
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Passenger fender was a little thin, needed a fix:

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Driver's side, glad they are uncovering this stuff:



Drivers side Dutchman panel repair:

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Rear Quarter work:


Lower rear quarter on the drivers side:


Much needed rocker panel repair, drivers side:



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Right rear trunk lip area:


After:

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Been wondering what was behind this rocker panel.


Time to cut it out:


So this is what we have:


Cleaned up and primed:


Template made for new hand crafted part:


The new piece with 20 gauge metal:


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Before shot:


Inside done:




Coming together:

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Funny what gets uncovered, swore this was looking better (drivers side floor):


Another patch made and fitted, like the detail:





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A few shots from my visit at the shop this past Saturday.







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Some more progress today on the drivers side rocker panel:



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Looks like the hood has it's final prep:









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Getting the slapstik brackets welded in and shifter and console test-fitted:














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Smoothing out all those bumps created by stuff banging around in the trunk (well further toward the rear):









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From my latest visit this past Saturday, some random pictures.








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Getting mounted on the rotisserie:










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Turning my attention to the gauge cluster, my original had the clock and cut-out for some 80's cassette deck I had in there.



Installed a new tachometer from Charger Specialties in place of the clock, also changed the lens to one without the hole for the clock thingy.





Next I used a silver craft paint pen to go around the edges to make things look better.



Put back together:


Also went over the surrounding and the Charger SE emblem with the same pen.



Since I had the pen out I did the dash vent as well.



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Dropped by the shop last Thursday to drop of my Hood Pin kit that I bought decades ago at a local car show.
Just some more random shots, not a lot of progress, could be in paint next week.

Kit was produced by D.C.S., did a quick Google search and it looks like they are still around. (actually think it's Dales Cuda Shop)












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A little bit of an update, little more touch ups on top and bottom. Should see some colour by the end of this week. Fingers crossed.




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Progress update for this week. Panels are off and sanded. The large panels to go in for primer tomorrow and following that the car body is going to be shot in colour on the firewall, underneath and in the passenger compartment all in colour. The car will be primed on the outside with slicksand and the panels will be installed and blocked to the car, then the car will go into the booth for final paint.


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Well the time has come... PAINT!!!!!













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More pics from today, should be in full colour this time next week, just waiting behind a Mustang before mine is back in the booth.








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In the booth, will see paint tomorrow.



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Dropped by the shop yesterday and snapped some pics, next is cut and polish to bring out the metallic and get rid of a couple of imperfections. The car is a bit dusty and under different light making the colour look a little darker. Definitely a big blue car.  :yesnod:















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Decided to take a look at the Parking Brake. Here is a before:



And after being left in Evaporust for a few hours:

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Dropped by the shop today to drop off my vinyl top stainless trim. They said my new 20 year old Legendary vinyl top had a really nice grain and was very good quality.
The car is mostly cut and polished, was still a bit dusty. Should be ready to come home in another week.







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Here is the vinyl back in 1999.




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Started doing a few things, trying to get the boxes to slowly disappear that are filled with parts. Just installed my 20+ year old hood pins.
Pretty simple, was just cautious when drilling to make sure the drill didn't slip.




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Had a bit of a mild spell the other day, so I dug up my trunk weatherstrip that I had kicking around for quite some years. Watched a few YouTube videos to aquatint myself. My biggest challenge was trying to figure out what side glues to the body. Figured that out and applied a thin film on the weatherstripping and on the body of the car. Have to say that 3M adhesive is very good.






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Some purchases from MegaParts.

Don't think I actually need the door body plugs as I can't see where I can actually use them.
Also don't need the spoiler brackets as they do not work with my spoiler that I had bought in the late 80's.
And still debating about the headlight decal.



Then I placed an order with Year One, haven't purchased from them in years, thanks to the 30% off I purchased the following:
Door weatherstrip was from Metro - Supersoft
The Jack sticker and Hidden Headlight decal (wanted the green one) both came from Dale's Cuda Shop.

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Door Assembly
I've got the two doors in the basement where I started installing the door weatherstripping. Used some more of the 3M Weatherstrip Adhesive.





More to come...

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Also brought the fenders and front valance to my basement after I blacked out the front end so I could add the headlight buckets with their correct mounting hardware.
- Added my NOS wheel lip moulding.
- Added the NOS side marker lenses.
- reproduction Pentastar
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Will drill the holes for the front spoiler next.

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Reproduction weathered washer bottle.



Test fitting:


Reproduction Hood to cowl seal w/clips, fit nicely.





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Installed SE laurel and script, the script is a nice NOS piece. Also installed the original moulding.






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Installed the Vapour Shield:

Used some RPM on the screws and Eastwood's Extreme Chassis Black on the shield.
Also used all the original screws and clips.










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Picked up a couple more parts.

Pulled the trigger and bought a repro fuel filler neck, now to do something with the other four I have collected over the years, long, short who knows what i have.





Clips for the ramcharger hoses, already had some black but thought I would go with the more original looking ones.


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Juts continuing to do little things, didn't want to spend money replacing the rear axle bumpers so I re-used what I've got.



Here they are after being removed for the first time, full of dirt and partial undercoating:



Soaked the brackets and screws in Evaporust, wiped on some RPM. Used a wire wheel to clean up the bumpers and sprayed a couple of coats of SEM black.





Back on the car:

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Cleaned up, SEM Black and RPM original screws and repros.




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Realized my old mirrors did my shiny doors an injustice so I purchased a pair of replacement mirrors from Classic Industries. They look very nice though the stile line on the mirror is not as crisp as the original, it does come with an odd plastic gasket and screws that are not like the originals. Think I will keep my original gasket and mounting screws. Here they are, just noticed the box says E-body.



In case you can't tell the repro is on the left; my original on the right has a bad replacement mirror over top of the original cracked mirror.


Passenger side:

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Also picked up one of these tools to install the lock ring in the fuel tank.


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Just got a delivery at work, when I looked at all the effort that would have to go into cleaning, de-rusting, removing ball joint (I did buy the socket) and painting I figured I would buy these.






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Interior Rear Quarter interior panel and support:
Or whatever it is called.  :scratchchin:



Cleaned up the panels and sprayed them with some gloss black paint:


And applied some of that caulk from DMT to replace what was there, think it was there so the panel and the support didn't make any rattling noise.


I'll install them after I get the rear quarter windows in.

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Not much but got this done.







Highly recommend this 3M 90, works well.

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Did the window chanel molding, gasket and new clips.



Repro clips in the middle:


Before:


After:



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Beautiful.

A word of advice. I would remove any and ALL RPM that you put onto your metal parts and PAINT them with something that will resemble their factory appearance. RPM is just that, rust PREVENTION and it will be MAJIC if they don't re-rust inside of a year.

If you plan on driving your car and not leaving it in a climate controlled bubble, your parts WILL rust again.


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Thanks cdstl, and thanks for the comment about RPM and I do plan on driving it, really miss the feeling of being in it. Interesting about the RPM as I have only heard positive comments, but thanks for your advice.

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Thought I would drill the holes for the front spoiler and install the parking lamps and front licence plate bracket.










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Looks great, no mater which forum I see it on.


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Wow

Wow

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Just Beautiful!!!


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Re: 1972 Charger SE Project by CDN72SE [Re: bee1971] #2513513
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Thank you bee1971.

Re: 1972 Charger SE Project by CDN72SE [Re: CDN72SE] #3103473
12/18/22 11:59 PM
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Where did this go? It was just starting to look amazing.

Re: 1972 Charger SE Project by CDN72SE [Re: cal30_sniper] #3114551
01/19/23 04:41 PM
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Hey cal30_sniper, thanks for reaching out. I should post some updates.

Re: 1972 Charger SE Project by CDN72SE [Re: CDN72SE] #3114553
01/19/23 04:45 PM
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Got my Top Cat Whiskers delivered. Got them from Dixie Restoration Parts, nice quality.

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Re: 1972 Charger SE Project by CDN72SE [Re: CDN72SE] #3114555
01/19/23 04:48 PM
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Here's my latest purchase, time to start putting those rear quarter windows back, picked these up from National Moparts here in Canada, this is the place I actually bought my car back in '92. Hey Nigel.  :cheers:

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Removed the old seal, the new seal slides in and this little metal tab goes through the whole in the rubber seal. Used some silicone spray as the seal was a very tight fit; which of course you want.
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As we know with most repro parts they are usually a little off, the hole that was drilled in the seal was out of place so I had to drill a new whole and it had to be a little more oval for the rubber seal to fit over it.
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Finished product, I am very happy with it and glad it was available in the aftermarket, mine have always looked like crap.
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Re: 1972 Charger SE Project by CDN72SE [Re: CDN72SE] #3114559
01/19/23 04:55 PM
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Re: 1972 Charger SE Project by CDN72SE [Re: CDN72SE] #3117538
01/29/23 04:47 PM
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Good looking stuff.

So you applied a little of the RPM to protect the parts of the mechanism?


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Re: 1972 Charger SE Project by CDN72SE [Re: DynoDave] #3120332
02/09/23 07:23 PM
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Exactly Dave. up

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