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Be very careful with that rubber O ring! It could slowly work its way out and cause a major leak!

See those little round buttons above the door lock on the passenger side door? That it the door button that opens the door, same on the interior.

Today the '50 Crosley convertible got its teeth!

Rambler should be a unibody, no body mounts?? I agree with checking the front motor mounts, if they are worn that could be causing your problem, a 1/4" drop in the front mounts could cause the tailshaft to be up enough to hit floorpan.

This is what I have been dealing with for the last 5 days. Western PA along with other parts of the country have been dumped on with rain. We had torrential rains just after Easter (almost 4")and again last Thursday and Friday (again almost 4"). The hillside behind my new building began to shift and leaned the concrete block wall to within inches of the building. After 5 days of digging the wall is back where it belongs and I can now relax a little and maybe even sleep! Lots of work now to make sure this doesn't happen again. And tons and tons of fill to get rid of!

Haven't got a lot done on the convertible, dealing with a mudslide. I did get a chance to work on it some today, polishing and installing a few stainless steel trim strips. Also installed the horn, water pump coupling, the front fender trim and a few other things. I need to order some trim clips to install the rest of the stainless trim, along with a host of other items.

Started tinkering with the convertible today, put the push button start switch back in the dash as well as the choke cable. The installed the hood prop rod after painting it. The on to the back of the car to install the license plate light and bracket after cleaning and painting. Got several other items painted and will go on next chance I get.

Kroten Green and Mist Gray Green, My dad had an Ambassador the same color combination.

How long ago did you have the machine shop do the work? Maybe you could go ask them politely if they remember putting the cam bearings in and if they aligned the hole.

Single stage.

Today was paint day, a little over 70⁰ and dry. It is now all one color, took almost the entire gallon of paint also. There is one run on the drivers door window frame that I should be able to touch up without too much trouble. Otherwise looks good. First several pictures are after the first coat with the HVLP, then I switched over to my old gun to finish it off.

Yesterday I put the hood on the convertible and it didn't fit at all. When I took it off several years ago it fit pretty good. Those are the pictures with the car in black primer and red hood. I didn't do any major body work on the upper parts of the fenders so I don't know what happened. So today I twisted, bent, adjusted, pushed pulled to get the hood to line up better and close properly. For those that don't know there are no adjustments on a Crosley hood. Now I can do final prep for paint, and when the weather warms up and stops raining I will paint.

Sweet!

Did a little more painting on the 1950 convertible today. My HVLP gun gave me fits today, the needle would not seat after releasing the trigger and that caused the paint to drip, more like run out the nozzle. I switched over to the old gun and finished what I wanted to paint. Now I need to get ready to paint the exterior by sanding the overspray some and masking off what is done.

Wiper arms should have just a spring type clip, a small screwdriver to release the clip and then pry the arm up with another screwdriver.