Tonight i finished what i could so far. Still need door panels and to put my console back in. First of all, never ever ever switch your interior unless you are really determined, patient, in good health, and not already at risk of heart failure. Unfortunately i am only determined, so i almost died. I expected it to be a pain in the ass and take two full days tops. It started easily enough, took out the seats and some of the stuff in the dash. I had kind of let the car go in the last month since i was planning on switching interiors... had a lot of trash to pull out of there.
Got the carpet, headliner, and molding/trim out. I made sure to take the screws from each piece and tape and lebel them on a board. Then i started the fun part of taking out the dash. With all the stuff in the dash, there are at least 40+ screws, 6 of wich you cant see and are on the inside. Once again the two that hold the dash to the radio support are the hardest and i just broke them off. There is a hell of a lot of shit behind there:
Well putting the dash back on is where you want to have some bayer ready and someone to pull you out of the car and restrain you before you go on a shooting spree through the neighborhood. NOTHING lines up, then you seem to get it lined up but it wont push back against everything. Wires keep falling and getting in the way, then you finally get it placed correctly, and you need to pull it off to move those big cables of wires around so you can screw it down, then once you finally get everything screwed back on it seems off on one side or the other. A lot of cursing and throwing shit during that step, but i finally got it on correctly.
While i had everything out of the car i decided to run wiring for a bunch of stuff. I re ran the wires for my rear power antenna, the CB antenna i have yet to put on, Wired the dash for led's in the vents, ran wiring to the back of the car for anything i might do with LED's, and ran the wire for the power gas door thing which i have to finish installing. Then i started putting the rest of the blue in. Started with the headliner, sail panels, then the carpet, glove box, front seatbelts, B pillar covers, and all the other stuff. It was a little bit of a pain putting stuff back in the correct order, but it helped having the screws labeled.
By this point i only had like 4 or 5 extra screws which isn't as bad as i though it would be
That finished out the third full day of work on the project. This morning i put the steering wheel, column shroud, and a few random pieces in. Still looks a little wierd with the red door panels, but the seats are great and i am very happy with the results.
Also, all i had to do to make the TC seats powered was switch the seat controlls and the group of wires attatched from the old seats and they plugged right into the harness on the TC seats. I didn't have to switch the tracks like i expected. Not sure if all the seats are this way since pete had to switch tracks too, maybe because mine were both from and '84. I do need longer screws for the controlls though due to the huge amount of foam between the side of the seat and the frame on the inside. I could only find one long enough, thats why the controlls look wierd in the pic. Once i get door panels i will post some more pics.
Got the carpet, headliner, and molding/trim out. I made sure to take the screws from each piece and tape and lebel them on a board. Then i started the fun part of taking out the dash. With all the stuff in the dash, there are at least 40+ screws, 6 of wich you cant see and are on the inside. Once again the two that hold the dash to the radio support are the hardest and i just broke them off. There is a hell of a lot of shit behind there:
Well putting the dash back on is where you want to have some bayer ready and someone to pull you out of the car and restrain you before you go on a shooting spree through the neighborhood. NOTHING lines up, then you seem to get it lined up but it wont push back against everything. Wires keep falling and getting in the way, then you finally get it placed correctly, and you need to pull it off to move those big cables of wires around so you can screw it down, then once you finally get everything screwed back on it seems off on one side or the other. A lot of cursing and throwing shit during that step, but i finally got it on correctly.
While i had everything out of the car i decided to run wiring for a bunch of stuff. I re ran the wires for my rear power antenna, the CB antenna i have yet to put on, Wired the dash for led's in the vents, ran wiring to the back of the car for anything i might do with LED's, and ran the wire for the power gas door thing which i have to finish installing. Then i started putting the rest of the blue in. Started with the headliner, sail panels, then the carpet, glove box, front seatbelts, B pillar covers, and all the other stuff. It was a little bit of a pain putting stuff back in the correct order, but it helped having the screws labeled.
By this point i only had like 4 or 5 extra screws which isn't as bad as i though it would be
That finished out the third full day of work on the project. This morning i put the steering wheel, column shroud, and a few random pieces in. Still looks a little wierd with the red door panels, but the seats are great and i am very happy with the results. Also, all i had to do to make the TC seats powered was switch the seat controlls and the group of wires attatched from the old seats and they plugged right into the harness on the TC seats. I didn't have to switch the tracks like i expected. Not sure if all the seats are this way since pete had to switch tracks too, maybe because mine were both from and '84. I do need longer screws for the controlls though due to the huge amount of foam between the side of the seat and the frame on the inside. I could only find one long enough, thats why the controlls look wierd in the pic. Once i get door panels i will post some more pics.
I bet you are burnt out! lol
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