Cleaning a couple of parts
Penny (my wife), Sebastian (my son) and I are spending New Years Eve with my parents this year, and as such, I get to do a little work on the car again (it’s been a good week). It was quite a hot day, so I only cleaned up a couple of things.
I started out by cleaning the heater controls. They had quite a bit of dust and grim on them. I cleaned it all off and then applied a bit of WD-40 to the controls and in the cable pulls. This freed up the mechanisms a lot and they move very smoothly.
I then started some work on the rear bumper. I decided not to get it re-chromed at this point in time. It does have a few imperfections, but it will do for now. I think I might need to build a new page of things to do after she is back on the road! I had been applying Penetrene to the nuts all morning and I was able to get a few of them off. I was mainly trying to get the overriders off. But, as always, the last nut seized and I ended up snapping the bolt. Luckily, I had a spare set of overriders that I was going to use anyway. The bumper didn’t come up too bad, but I still need to paint the brackets and the inside of the bumper as they are quite rusty.