Re-stapled My 67 Dust Shields - Pics
I finally decided to bite the bullet and re-do my dust shields since the ones currently in the car were just loosely glued and in and the shield on the passenger side was missing its lower half. I gave it alot of thought and here's what I came up with:
1. Jacked up the car and removed the driver's side tire. Placed jack stands under frame.
2. Carefully removed the old driver's side dust shield and cleaned up all the glue and paint in the depression for the shield inside the engine compartment.
2. I used this shield since it looked like a very old replacement as a template and cut out an identical copy of the dust shield using thin cardboard (pic 1).
3. I could see all the original staple holes on the driver's side. Interestingly, my car only had 10 original staples, not the eleven called for the in the AIM.
4. Placed a light in the engine compartment shining towards the holes and used a large paper-clip to clean out all of the holes. The light made it easy to see most of the holes.
5. Carefully taped the cardboard template to the engine side using the depression for the outline of the shield as a guide. Needed to use duct tape to hold the template in place tightly so it wouldn't slip.
6. Used a large sewing needle to carefully poke holes from the wheel well side through the cardboard template on the opposite side. This transferred the original staple hole pattern on the wheel well to my template.
7. Oriented the template on a replacement dust shield (found the Paragon shields most closely matched my old one, so I used them), and then used a small battery-power hand drill (not much power - but you don't need much) to transfer the hole pattern template to the replacement dust shield.
8. Took each pair of staple holes in the wheel well and matched up a corresponding staple to it -some needed bending in, some out, some none at all. I then put the staple in the corresponding holes in the dust shield.
9. Went to car and carefully lined up each staple with the pre-existing holes and put the staples through. Starting at the top middle, I held one end of the staple with bent needle nose pliers and the other with regular needle nose plies and proceeded to bend the staple end over using the bent nose pliers. Took a bit of getting use to, but after two or three it went like clockwork.
10. Tidied up the staple ends and heads in the engine compartment using pliers and I was done (Pic 2 and 3).
In the process of doing this, I cleaned up the A-arms and ball joints and found what appears to be original orange paint on the spindle (pic 3). I also found some yellow paint on a bolt on the back-side of the spindle or brake drum (pic 4). Is that also suppose to be there? It was identical on both sides. Anyway, the template approach to dust shields worked like a charm. I know there are some significant NCRS boo-boos with my A-arms (ball joints bolted), but at least they are now clean. Had some difficulties on the passenger side, but that is for my next post as I think I have some evidence of repair work and would like to get some opinions. Give me any and all your thoughts.
Kirk
1. Jacked up the car and removed the driver's side tire. Placed jack stands under frame.
2. Carefully removed the old driver's side dust shield and cleaned up all the glue and paint in the depression for the shield inside the engine compartment.
2. I used this shield since it looked like a very old replacement as a template and cut out an identical copy of the dust shield using thin cardboard (pic 1).
3. I could see all the original staple holes on the driver's side. Interestingly, my car only had 10 original staples, not the eleven called for the in the AIM.
4. Placed a light in the engine compartment shining towards the holes and used a large paper-clip to clean out all of the holes. The light made it easy to see most of the holes.
5. Carefully taped the cardboard template to the engine side using the depression for the outline of the shield as a guide. Needed to use duct tape to hold the template in place tightly so it wouldn't slip.
6. Used a large sewing needle to carefully poke holes from the wheel well side through the cardboard template on the opposite side. This transferred the original staple hole pattern on the wheel well to my template.
7. Oriented the template on a replacement dust shield (found the Paragon shields most closely matched my old one, so I used them), and then used a small battery-power hand drill (not much power - but you don't need much) to transfer the hole pattern template to the replacement dust shield.
8. Took each pair of staple holes in the wheel well and matched up a corresponding staple to it -some needed bending in, some out, some none at all. I then put the staple in the corresponding holes in the dust shield.
9. Went to car and carefully lined up each staple with the pre-existing holes and put the staples through. Starting at the top middle, I held one end of the staple with bent needle nose pliers and the other with regular needle nose plies and proceeded to bend the staple end over using the bent nose pliers. Took a bit of getting use to, but after two or three it went like clockwork.
10. Tidied up the staple ends and heads in the engine compartment using pliers and I was done (Pic 2 and 3).
In the process of doing this, I cleaned up the A-arms and ball joints and found what appears to be original orange paint on the spindle (pic 3). I also found some yellow paint on a bolt on the back-side of the spindle or brake drum (pic 4). Is that also suppose to be there? It was identical on both sides. Anyway, the template approach to dust shields worked like a charm. I know there are some significant NCRS boo-boos with my A-arms (ball joints bolted), but at least they are now clean. Had some difficulties on the passenger side, but that is for my next post as I think I have some evidence of repair work and would like to get some opinions. Give me any and all your thoughts.
Kirk
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