Heater box removal , A/C 1980 F body

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Great write up!

Did you get any pictures that you could post, of the area (for others to understand what you are talking about)?
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I'll try and snap a picture....

Its basically the area right where the fender, door and windshield meet that is the area in general....there is a bolt in that area that I assume is the rear most fender bolt.....there also seems to be like 3 flanges that meet together, and the factory used seam sealer....when we ran water over the BOLT half of that area, water would leak in...we think its either the bolt area itself or the water is just running down from there .......and that's where we have no idea exactly where a leak would be since it is impossible to see with the fender on. SO the kiddo cleaned that area up and gooped the silicon on to see if we could at least redirect the water away from the path it is taking......I guess we'll see.

The fender looks like it will be a pain to take off what with the plastic (I assume) front cap and the way there is factory sealer/paint sealing the fender to the rad support etc......

He uses the car year round so any down time is a PITA. But with cruises and being the "fun time" of the year, not really wanting to tear a fender off right now.....so thats why we are thing we may try and seal the leak from the inside for now.....the spray sealer he used didnt work -- water is still getting through it which I find really strange....but I saw it with my own eyes....gonna strip all that stuff and start over with either silicone or seam sealer or.....maybe spray bedliner?
 

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Realized I never followed up on this.

SO after considering yanking the fender , we decided to make one last ditch effort in sealing what we could get to....

Had the boy strip all that stuff off - both inside the car along the floor seam and along the cowl areas in the door jamb......we also did the same areas on the drivers side....pulled the seats and carpet to get to it all and found some pretty poor workmanship from the factory where the front and rear floor pans meet. (Assumed it is from the factory). Big gaps sealed with dried up tar.

So we stripped and cleaned every seam we could and used real seam sealer.

To date, no leaks. Hallelujah.

Of course now we are once again considering how to pull the heater box.....decided to get the AC working. Hoping the evaporator doesnt need replaced but the way my luck is...LOL
 

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Yeah we did....have to dig them out and try and upload.

Ever since photo bucket played their games, its a lot harder to share online photos.....
 

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I have found it easiest to download pictures to my computer. A person can crop and/or resize your pictures, so they are smaller than 1 MB (my cell phone takes pictures that are about 8 MB), if applicable, and then post them. That way, the forum software holds onto the picture(s). Have you ever looked at old forum posts and pictures that describe something in interest to you – but the picture(s) are no longer available (which is typical for Photo Bucket, or other services)? It can be frustrating, especially if on a topic you need to know about, right then.

I also have a Photo Bucket account (and something else from Google) – but found it a hassle to get links posted.
I can’t give any good advice on sharing online photo’s – but I can at least let you know what I do with photos.

In most cases, I use “Paint” in my Windows computer. In my case, I don’t toss out photos (maybe I should with some . . .).
This is a screen shot of my Windows Explorer just now:
Picture Pic2.JPG

The system I use is (which works for my – might not work for you): first picture is from a recent car show. The unaltered picture (file name 20180609_120612.jpg), using this phone is 4032 x 3024 for a file size of 5.47 MB.
I cropped the picture then resized the picture to 2350 x 1083 for a file size of 1.0 MB – both within paint.
JPEG pictures are odd, and I don’t understand them exactly (and please – don’t tell me, for I don’t want my head to explode) and resizing pictures – the file sizes are not linear.

Another example. The unaltered photo (file name 20180622_154607.jpg) is 3024 x 4032 for a file size of 4.00 MB. I cropped the picture some then resized the picture to 1635 x 2000 for a file size of 0.98 MB.
Picture Pic.JPG


I generally will mark my photo names with an R (resized), C (cropped) or M (modified) – but that is what I do sense I have a lot of photos (maybe 11-12 GB worth) on file – not counting PDF versions of my FSM (Factory Service Manuals), Part Manuals or magazine articles I’ve saved (which is another 25-26 GB).


When resizing pictures - I use my Windows Snipping tool to take this picture (titled Picture Pic.JPG). This picture size is 415 x 292 for 37.5 KB. For illustration purposes, this file is a bit small for me to read so I opened it in Photo, went to “Resize”, and this dialog box came up. Click on Pixels button (red arrow – which I also added in Photo). I then bumped this up to 750 x 527 which gave me a file size of 117 KB.
Picture Resize1.JPG

There are other methods to use and some might be faster and give better results. Photo is built into Windows and it gets what I want done.

I’m getting older and my eyes don’t work as well as they once did – so I appreciate larger and detailed pictures.

This picture was also taken with Windows Sniping tool and is how I have my photos organized. Does anyone recognize the organization pattern?
Picture Pic3.JPG

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I have found it easiest to download pictures to my computer. A person can crop and/or resize your pictures, so they are smaller than 1 MB (my cell phone takes pictures that are about 8 MB), if applicable, and then post them.
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Thanks Bud

Thanks for all that "how to" effiort. I appreciate it.

Yeah, I have been working with graphics etc for decades.....pretty familiar with resizing....but my point was that its a hassle having to resize, especially when trying to do mobile posts. Resizing is a pain in the shorts....LOL

Some sites now automatically resave pictures smaller which is nice.....

Photobucket was nice because you could store pics there and just link them. Til they got greedy and eliminated the free accounts and wanted a ridiculous amount of money to have a paid account...LOL

That and I have 1,000s of photos now ...somewhat organized but over the span of many drives and external devices...LOL

It was easier in the old days..you took a picture, you printed it out or didnt. And you stick the photo in a box or album.

Now we can take as many shots as we want and just copy them to a drive....after years of doing that the number of pics is mindblowing...LOL...all to eventually be lost forever when we pass on and our files are considered junk....LOL
 

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I put mine on an external hard drive or two and a few zip drives.
The two hard drives a photos only, I started this after two mother boards crashed in my puter, what a pain that is!
 

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The forum software will resize the pictures for you – but it takes a lot longer to download the pictures AND the picture size will end up a lot smaller than expected (like in the 600-750 KB range).
Resizing pictures, yourself can make for better results (in my opinion).


Providing they are not flooded (natural disaster or man-made (burst pipe, etc.)) or fire, regular pictures can last a long time.

Long term digital storage is becoming a problem.
I have about 10 floppy disks on my desk at home I need to extract photos from, as well as a couple of ZIP discs and a stack of older (IDE) hard drives. Just more stuff that needs done and no time to do it in . . . so, one of these days.

According to a random website I pulled up, this is the approximate age/working lifespan of these devices:
Cassette tape or other magnetic tape (like VHS, etc.) – 10 to 30 years
Floppy disk – 5 to 20 years (if you can find a floppy disk drive anywhere . . .)
CD and DVD – 5 to 10 years unrecorded / 2 to 5 years recorded. Note: stamped discs (new software and movies) will last a long time.
Hard drives – 3 to 5 years
Flash drives (thumb drives, USB sticks, etc.) – 5 to 10 years (but more often it is recorded to (write cycles), the shorter it will live).
Note: this is thier data, not mine.

Based off of the above information, I would really dislike downloading a ton of pictures to DVD drives – then come back 20 years later and find they no longer work - would be, um, . . . very unhappy.
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