Anyone interested in 83 Pace Arrow Tear down and Rebuild?

Here is a pic of the drawer pulled out. I must say, this thing is very sturdy, and even at this extended position, it has very little drooping at the end.

The clearance between the side surfaces will determine how much the drawer will droop when extended. I am happy with it.

Ok! I have finally gotten the other side of the drawer slide glued and screwed into place.

Here's a pic of that. Other than going a little overboard with screws, I am happy.

After coating all the slide surfaces with furniture wax, she slides like a hot knife through butter.

After checking the shim thickness, I decided to glue them to the plywood before I install that with screws.







This will be ready to install tomorrow, and the drawer will be in place.

This was after I glued and screwed the bottom on the opposite side. Here I am test fitting the shims for the upper drawer slide runner.

The opposite side for the drawer slide needed to be shimmed out just a touch. That will insure the runners mate properly. This was a test fit for the correct size shims.

Here is a pic of installing the drawer slide runners.

As you can see, the bottom runner is glued and screwed into place. I am getting ready to glue/screw the top runner into place.

I used a paper towel to provide some clearance between the runners, so they are not too tight.

The red arrow shows the bottom runner. The black arrow shows the top runner, and the Blue arrow points to the old wooden saw that I made to cut off the excess spray foam insulation on top of the wheel wells! Remember that? Lol.

Back to the build.

I glued and screwed the sides to the sides of the drawer bottom. You'll notice that I countersunk the screws. They are standard Kreg screws that are 1.25" long.

sundancer268 wrote:

PastorCharlie wrote:

This drawer will be roughly 12" high and about 26" long. I figure I've gained roughly about 1" in width with the wooden slides.

That translates to 312 cubic inches more useable space over using factory drawer slides. You have gained approx. 1/5th cubic foot space.

Same Cubic Inches as the 1957 Thunderbird Y-Block V-8 Engine, Loved the old Y-Block and FE series Big Block V-8s. Now back to the Coach Build.

Ah, yes. The old 312 Ford engine.

I loved the mid 60's 327-350 and the 326-365 hp engines. Put them in a light car, and they would scream.

Wore myself out today moving snow. Tomorrow is another day....

Bruce Brown wrote:
10" of snow is big???

That's a dusting around here. :B

Yup. For this area that is a big one. Usually they are kind of a "heavy" snow since the temp is usually around 30 degrees or so.

PastorCharlie wrote:

This drawer will be roughly 12" high and about 26" long. I figure I've gained roughly about 1" in width with the wooden slides.

That translates to 312 cubic inches more useable space over using factory drawer slides. You have gained approx. 1/5th cubic foot space.

Same Cubic Inches as the 1957 Thunderbird Y-Block V-8 Engine, Loved the old Y-Block and FE series Big Block V-8s. Now back to the Coach Build.