No pictures to show today but I made a little more progress on the NYB.
Tonight I removed the remaining door panels from the car. I removed the
switch packs from the door panels and reconnected them to the wiring harness
so I can more easily troubleshoot the electrical system. I removed and
cleaned the dash pad.(it looks great!) I replaced the "Brougham" medallion
on the dash pad. The old one was missing the crystal. I replaced the front
right door's switch pack with one from my 77 NYB parts car. The original
had a physically broken switch. Some of the window motors and power locks
work and some don't. Some of the lights work and some don't. Fixing the
electrical is going to be a long process. Fortunately, it shouldn't cost me
much.
Tomorrow I'll probably pull the instrument cluster out to aid in
troubleshooting electrical issues. There isn't much electrical that works
on the panel at all. None of the guages work and most of the lights are
out. I know that big round connector on the back is very loose and poorly
connected. I'll also figure out then how many window motors I need. I
don't expect any of the power lock solenoids to need replacing as I have
never seen one of those go bad. I guess there's a first time for everything
though. I'll also have to connect power to the power seats to determine if
the motors and switches in the seats ok or not.
Till then!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Hogg" <roadhogg@xxxxxxx>
To: <chrysler1978@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [NYBML] NEXT!
I just finished taking the carpet and underlay out of the car. I had to
scrape most of the padding off the car with a putty knife due to all the
surface rust on the floor. There is quite a bit of rust through as I
suspected. I'll probably end up replacing all four of the pans with either
replacement pans or just sheet metal.
I cleared out as much debris as I could from the car. Next step is to get
the vacuum out and clean it up throroughly. Then I'll cut away all the dead
metal and see what I am really up against. Then I'll weld in new material.
The carpet is shot. It was so rotted that it came apart in pieces
everywhere. One place I saw that had new carpet stated that their carpet
comes with the padding attached to the back. That's good because that
shredded too. I wonder where I can get that padding that has the thick
tar-paper material on the top. Does anyone know?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Hogg" <roadhogg@xxxxxxx>
To: <chryslernewyorkerbrougham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [NYBML] NEXT!
I tied into the NYB today. Basically, I took the seats out. This doesn't
sound like much but anyone who has lifted a NYB front power seat, will
understand how wore out I feel now. Not only that, but you may not be aware
that you need to jack up the car and unbolt the front seats from under the
car. The back seats aren't as heavy but they can still be a bit of a pain
to remove. Once you do it a couple times like I have though, it's not
exactly rocket science but rather just a bunch of work. I took some
pictures of what I have been doing and I also restructured my 76 NYB page on
the site. Have a look!
http://www.nybclub.org/membercars/bradhogg/76NYB/index.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Hogg" <roadhogg@xxxxxxx>
To: "NYB ML" <chryslernewyorkerbrougham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 6:48 PM
Subject: [NYBML] NEXT!
Well, my garage has somewhat of a revolving door. One project out (1990
Imperial) another project in (1976 NYB). The temperature here got warm
enough for me to dare start my 78 Newport and to have a hope of starting the
76 NYB. The Newport took off no problem but the NYB, having summer oil,
wasn't as forgiving. Neither of my big cars have block heaters, being from
the west coast. I had to start the Newport to get the NYB out of the
driveway, plus I needed the Newport for a power plant as the NYB has a poor
battery. The NYB took some cranking (and a healthy boost from the Newport)
to get it to fire. It ran a few minutes and flooded itself out and died. I
let it sit a few minutes while I cleared the foot of snow off it and then
tried again. After cranking a while it fired again. It runs nice after it
warms up but that warm-up is pretty painful in that car.
The NYB is now in the garage and the long repair project will soon begin. I
will start with that high labour, low cost items first, then move onto the
more expensive items like vinyl top and paint. Basically it needs the
following:
Some rust repair on the floor, not sure how much. I get to weld more!
Two or more window motors need replacing. Anyone got spares?
A bunch of the dash electrics are dead as well as the power seats.
I'll take out all seats and carpet to do the above.
Exhaust needs work. I'll just get the muffler shop do that.
right side mirror broken. I think I have a T&C mirror still lying around.
right rear marker broken. Anyone have a spare?
Don't even think about Auto Temp at this point.
The cruise worked half way home from the coast so there might not be much
wrong with that.
I am hoping to be driving it some time this summer. That will all depend on
the finances, which are VERY tight right now.
Brad Hogg
Winnipeg, Manitoba
http://www.nybclub.org/bradhogg/index.htm
1990 Chrysler Imperial 4-door Sedan (the KImperial)
1978 Chrysler Newport 4-door Hard Top (the Newporker)
1976 Chrysler New Yorker Brougham 4-door Hard Top (the Black Beast)
1968 Chrysler Newport Custom 4-door Sedan (Grand-Dad's car)
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