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cannante

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  1. I have been looking for the right type of tape to seal my windows for a couple months now, and I order something and then it doesn't turn out to be what I'm looking for. Butyl tape I thought I ordered Butyl tape I thought I ordered from a hardware store but it looks like it is just one sided tape Is the butyl tape I'm looking for double-sided?
  2. so I'm so I'm rebuilding the inside of my sunrader from scratch. I'm doing the windows before I do the floors so that the floors don't warp! And there's nothing inside the wall of And there's nothing inside the wall of the fiberglass. So, I am asking about where I should put butyl tape? Should put it's on the inside of the window frame and then seal it to the front of the fiberglass? And then use proflex on the outside of the fiberglass on the outside of a frame? Or is butyl tape only for the inner wall?
  3. My brake lights have been temperamental, as well as the indicator light on the dashboard. Now the brake lights are not working at all, after I replaced the alternator and Battery. Basically the electrical system is only the brake lights the turn signals on the reverse indicator, the engine, and the headlights. There's nothing else that needs wiring. I'm thinking I should just rewire the whole thing
  4. Compound? Is that a cleaner? I have a few cracks that I am working on. Repairing this week.
  5. I am going to put in I am going to put in 3 by 4 beams and the two by four with the one-inch curve as per the above suggestion as soon as I fix the leaks. The week's is this week's project before it rains and snows here!
  6. hello, hello, all! It is just to get the ball rolling on my blogging this stuff. Here I am in New York having arrived with an almost Frozen clutch thanks to the traffic before George Washington Bridge for an hour in first gear to stop first gear to stop first gear to stop it was quite scary. I popped it into third from second though on the bridge and that seemed to reset everything, and I'm driving up with the first load of found objects to make the outer covering of a hobby horse. I have described this in my profile. Is also clearing out my apartment which is thrilling. The clutch thing though is a big deal and I will have to replace the clutch and I don't trust myself to do all of that work, so while someone else is replacing the clutch I will replace the fuel lines and the fuel pump and clean out the fuel tank find the connection to the left brake light, and then steam clean the whole undercarriage. That is the plan, anyway This is all new for me because I am a person who always had mechanic work done for me as a kid. Now being poor enough to not afford that, but desirous of the vehicle makes me adapt, and hopefully improve my brain as a way to Stave off dementia! I'm also planning on doing the breaks because there is a weird light going on when the emergency brake is completely off. I check the brake fluid it's full I definitely need to get new vents, and the internal support for the fiberglass repair the plan is to make a quick carport for it upstate and then keep it out of the snow this winter as long as it is safely driveable which is the other reason I've been posting right now I would love advice about how to replace flooring if it's worth getting a new chassis since it's an 82, this is going to become a sculpture that would be nice if it had some morphing capability and since the inside has been torn up and is empty of supports it would be easy to build a novel set of supports. Step one is to get the clutch and all of that stuff replaced Pre Xmas update Thanks to the unexpected expense of a new alternator, that I should have known about because it started giving out before the clutch did, which I still have, by the way because it was an overheating issue, not a replacement issue. Anyway thanks to the alternator, I put aside any plans to go up and fix the skeleton which is going to be 3 by 4 beams and a suggested 2 by 4 with a 1 in Arc it. First I must repair the cracks in the top of the fiberglass and I'm still not entirely certain about how to do that there are a lot of different opinions here and the good news is that in the process of repairing the alternator I'd also killed the battery having ignored it for so long and now both are new and it would be hard to imagine what else could go wrong dear Jesus please let that not be a mistake to say... But the good news is that my brother Michael is coming out to visit for two weeks and he likes fixing stuff so I feel like if I get the fiberglass repaired he can fix all my mistakes and we will put the skeleton in together losing the alternator while almost on a Parkway, and then losing the battery while on the highway the next day after picking up the car, was something else so I'm so stressful that I can't tell but I feel like it is writing much better than it has before all the pieces of some beautiful Pine that I pictured here into what will first be the floor and then a set of benches that will open up to a platform bed right underneath the windows finishing these three things will make it possible to hop down to Florida for the winter! None of that until the roof is repaired however! Please advise in copious amounts!
  7. Now that I know what you need, I can even see on the inside where the wood goes thank you!
  8. yes the 5/16 yes the 5/16 works. Now if I could just get my rig on a mechanics hydraulic lift system I would be able to replace all of the fuel line! Thanks 😎
  9. I drove a certain amount of mileage in between two towns and filled up the tank at the first town and then filled up the tank at the second town, and I got at least twenty one point five miles to the gallon. Unless the road Milestones are off, that's the mileage I got it from my 1982 Toyota sunrader
  10. the fuel the fuel lines AR finally cracking on this sunrader and I need to replace them. Is it a quarter inch or 5/16?
  11. I just bought a Sunrader that is completely gutted on the inside. It can only really go 50 to 55 miles a maximum, because it shakes something terrible any faster than that. Also, I live up a mountain with a windy dirt road that is severely rutted so the bamboo support column is falling off now on average every two rides up or down the mountain. Does anyone have advice about how to build a support structure for the inside of the vehicle?
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