Archive: September 2020

Interior door panels

The door internals have all been installed. The window regulator, door locks, door handles and side mirrors are in or on. With the internals complete the first thing was to make a watershield to stop the rain splashing onto the interior panel. This is then sealed around the perimeter to the door shell. The bottom tucks into the opening and is taped over. This is the arm rest support, the…
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Rear seat install

This is pretty straight forward The back pieces goes on first. It slides down onto the 3 hooks (see 1st image below) along the top edge and is then bolted in two places at the bottom The bottom piece is last, this just gets wedged under the back piece and gets secured in 2 clips (see one of them in the last image above) along the front edge.…
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Rear interior

With the windows (finally) done I could get the few pieces of rear interior put in First up was de-rusting, painting and then covering the rear arm rests. Before the vinyl I used a sheet of sound-absorbing foam to pad it out a bit. After the vinyl cover the new ash trays were popped into a cut-out hole   In the car… First was to make a watershield to protect…
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Rear seat repair and reupholstery

I’m reusing the original rear seat frame. It wasn’t in the best of shape in some places.. but overall it was decent First I removed all the rust and gave it a lick of paint In just a couple places the wire had worn/rusted through. I fixed this with a few bits of hollow tube around the worn steel and secured with zip ties. Next was to re-cover the seat.…
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