ST162-7254182 "Dirty Deeds" Edited

I put the 2 pieces together and marked the seam


then I cut off the excess leaveing about 1/4" overlap


then I taped up the seam to seal it


and filled in the gap with some resin


so now their permanently sealed together


and I've started putting some reenforcing strips in strategic places and around the edge
to thicken it


I picked up some more hardware so I can make the metal bracket removeable and a strip of
aluminum bar to mount some leds with


I drilled some holes to mount the clips and placed some duct tape over the clips so they dont stick


then I placed some bondo inside the fiberglass and attached the metal bracket then I removed
the bolts that hold the clips to the metal bracket so the clips would stick to the bondo


then I removed the duct tape and re attached the clips to the metal bracket and put contact
cement on the clips and the bondo and once again attached the metal bracket to the fiberglass
and removed the bolts from the clips so the would remain stuck to the bondo again


then I fiberglassed the clips in place


I also added a piece of styrofoam to the inside of the metal bracket so I could overlap the
fiberglass a bit


I want to be able to remove the bracket so I can easilly run wires


getting pretty close now


all I need to do is make some mounting points for the power mirror motor

 

I'm not worried about that, I allways over strengthen my fiberglass pieces so I'm pretty sure
their not going anywhere. Actually I'm pretty sure they'll be wanting me to go faster :twisted

 

Thats the great thing about forums, more people sharing ideas. I had not considered
making the mirrors folding but in this case since the skull sticks out in front of the mirror
so much if folded 90 degrees your not going to get the mirrors any closer to the door.

The passenger side low beam had become intermittent so I took the headlight
plug appart so I could see what was wrong and discovered that the wire to this
clip had corroded away. Normally the black arrow is where the wire attaches to
the clip but thats corroded away so I will re attach the wire useing the red arrow
crimp area.


Most plugs can be taken appart and in this case you go inside the plug to find
these 2 tabs which will allow you to remove the backing cover


on the other side of the plug you use these 3 tabs to remove the electical clips


here you can see where I've sanded the end of the clip and cleaned the wire and put
some di electric grease on everything and re attached the wire to the clip


snap the 3 clips back into the plug


and now I have a working low beam on the passenger side again


and on the mirror front I have made the mounting bracket for the power mirror assembly
so now that I have all the functionallity and all design issues work out on the drivers
side mirror all I have to do is repeat the process on the passenger side mirror and final
body work on this one

 

In most cases I would sand blast or wire brush the whole thing since most toyota plugs
are waterproof but this is not a waterproof plug so there is no point in cleaning up any
area that is not needed for electrical contact. To clean the rest of the clip is just
exposing new metal for corrosion so it better to leave it alone you'll just speed up the
overall corrosion of the clip by re exposing bare metal, it will re corrode faster than
if left alone

 

I want to air brush some of these guys on the sides once I get a better flat black on the car


I'm going to put "Dirty Deeds" on the back left of the car just like on any other vehicle name
you can get plastic chrome letters on ebay. On the right back of the car you normally get
the model so for that I'll put "DDC"

 

I saw that before and thought shit that looks good but I think it looks
good because the rest of your car isn't flat black. You can go to far
with 1 color so I think the contrasting original grill looks better in my
case


The bottom of the mirror isn't finished yet it still has to have a led
housing added so the final shape will be closer to that depicted by
the red line

 

Unfortunately global warming has once again failed to prevent the inevitable
winter season so I'm going to split the garage and make a small little work
shop that will be easy to heat in the back. The main problem I have is that
I have soooooo much crap that I will have to move 2 sets of shelving. This
shelf has to go forward about a foot.


this is basically what I will have for a heated work area. Anything from the
work bench back which is basically the back 10' of the garage


The other shelf I had to move is the one I have in the center of the ceiling


for now I'm just going to use a tarp but eventually I'll build a proper wall so now
I have to figure out what to do with all the crap on the floor. I dont want to use
the center ceiling shelf again


I finished shaping the styrofoam for the passenger side mirror


and now it has some fiberglass

 

I cut the metal bracket in half now the mirror is complete I don't need
the other half of the metal bracket it was just used to make sure everything
was in the right place and angle


and finished shaping the bottom half of the mirror, you can see in the picture
that this mold is slightly smaller to allow for the thickness of the fiberglass
that will be applied


here you can see the space below the mirror that will hold some turn signal leds


so its time to get some fiberglass on it


I then took the new piece off and strengthened it inside and re attached it
to the bottom permanently and the passenger side mirror is progressing to


Now the drivers side morror just needs bodywork, leds and some lens's for eyes & paint