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Worked on more smalls today.  Tedious.................

Got a rebuild kit for the brake proportioning valve, so need to rebuild/restore it, along with the blower resistor and firewall plate.  Looks like decent enough parts to work with.

Wish I had some of the skills many of you have.  I'm used to working on race cars, where it's all about performance and not necessarily the little visual details, but sure is fun.




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My car being a very early build 70, it came with the dual vacuum advance. I'm sure after 50 years it is shot, and don't believe they are available anywhere.  What are others doing in this case, just replacing it with the single line vacuum advance?
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Also, as I have my car back and am ready to start assembling it back together, I'm debating on whether to use the original type repop under dash/firewall insulation, or just use Dynamat.  The carpet is going to cover it either way where it would be visible.  Thoughts?
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Boom mat installed.  Will cover with padded interior carpet.

Does anyone have a good pic of the rear kick panel (behind seats under  1/4 window trim).  Someone had just glued carpet to the sheet metal on mine, and I think there should be a cardboard/plastic panel covered in vinyl?




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Legendary makes correct panels for the 1/4 trim cover.

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Originally posted by amxdreamer amxdreamer wrote:

Legendary makes correct panels for the 1/4 trim cover.


Thanks Tony, I will check that out!
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For a "race car" person you are doing a great job on the details. It is looking great. Thumbs Up

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Originally posted by pit crew pit crew wrote:

For a "race car" person you are doing a great job on the details. It is looking great. Thumbs Up

Thanks!  Now I have a few questions which show my lack of AMX knowledge:

1)  For the life of me, I can't figure out how this attaches to the hood pull latch.  My car did not have this on it but I ordered and am trying to figure it out how to mount?  Anyone have any pics?  

https://www.amarkamc.com/product.sc?productId=111&categoryId=-1

2)  The jute cowl padding, asssume it should be glued on with 3M Super 77 or something similar?  Anyone have pics of their cowl after attaching the repop jute padding?

3)  The firewall pad/insulation, with the four plastic push in clips.  Was it glued to firewall, or were the push in retainers meant to hold it on.  Carpet go on over these push in clips or does the carpet stop before these retainers (pad overlaps carpet which in that case, pad should go in after carpet)?  Also have to say, these sure don't line up very well with the cutouts and holes in my firewall.  Going to take some significant trimming.

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You hood latch has two rods one goes straight down from the latch to a pivot mounted on the hood latch support and one from the pivot straight out under the bumper-above the plate. The second rod goes through that bracket to support it.
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Originally posted by 1970390amx 1970390amx wrote:

You hood latch has two rods one goes straight down from the latch to a pivot mounted on the hood latch support and one from the pivot straight out under the bumper-above the plate. The second rod goes through that bracket to support it.

Ok, so the bracket I listed from Amark mounts under the front bumper.  That's what I thought but wanted to make sure I mounted it correctly.
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