Monday February 14, 2011
A productive day:
I tackled the Plymouth Model 36 Special Deluxe heater. I have two and both are basket cases. I stripped them both down to the component parts and choose the best of the lot to work on.
- I had the tires removed from the rims for sandblasting and then paint.
- I was going to sandblast them today but it was way to windy and decided to chip away on the interior.
- I disassembled the electric motor which was original to my car and cleaned both bearings and the commutator.
- I put shrink wrap on the wirers because they were starting to fray and replaced the 8x32 - 3.5" casing screws The rear casing, bottom pan, and fan shroud.
- I dropped it off at the local NAPA store to be bead blasted.
- I flushed out the heater core with warm water by attaching a hose from my slop sink and another hose down to the drain. Pressure tested it at 50 psi for one hour with no pressure loss so I think it's good to go.
- Cleaned all rust from the remaining parts including the heater core.
- Painted the heater core with a flat black Rust-Oleum.
- Painted the housing and other parts with a Rust-Oleum Hammered finish (7210 Gold) paint which is extremely close to the original color.
- Really looks better then the picture. The Hammered finish is really nice.