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« Reply #11130 on: September 05, 2019, 08:28:48 PM » |
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 First area of vinyl glued in place, (the rear of the gearbox tunnel). I bought the material from an upholsterer mate, but it's quite thin so shows up every lump & bump in the sound proofing material underneath it. I've tried rolling it with a small wallpaper roller without success. Fortunately most of this bit's hidden when the seats are in. Once the spray glue had dried, (doesn't take long), I fitted the storage box. With just a 2 seater cab & no boot space, there's nowhere to put anything. Not even room behind the seats to shove a jacket. So this is just making use of a spare bit of space with a small box, big enough for my phone, a bottle of water, sunglasses etc. It should follow the angle of the seats. The panels either side of it are recessed to clear the seat backs. The push button latch is from a 50s Cadillac. It's not as grey as it looks in the photos, but I'll probably rub a little dab of shoe polish into it to spruce it up a bit cos it's been gathering dust for quite a while.
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« Reply #11131 on: September 05, 2019, 08:29:20 PM » |
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« Reply #11132 on: September 06, 2019, 08:45:06 PM » |
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« Reply #11133 on: September 08, 2019, 04:47:52 PM » |
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Vinyl scrubbed up a bit & stainless pistol grip handbrake lever bolted in.
Nothing else to show for an afternoon's garaging, but I spent ages very, very carefully threading the bolts into the seat belt mounts. I've got new inertia belts to go in, (last time it was on the road it had a second hand, mis matched pair), but seat belt bolts are very fine threaded & the mounts are captive nuts, welded into the body framework. If I cross thread them I'll never be able to replace them. So gently does it, with plenty of copper grease, cleaning 6 years of paint & garage muck out of the threads. Then I found I didn't have the right sized spacer washers, so couldn't fit them anyway. I'll get some from the local bolt shop tomorrow.
Just fitting the interior stuff in the back of the cab now the vinyl's in, then I'll start painting the back axle & sort out the vinyl on the front section of gearbox tunnel.
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« Reply #11134 on: September 09, 2019, 08:37:28 PM » |
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Why do the simplest jobs always take the longest?
Spent my couple of hours of garage time today just fitting the seatbelts. Despite cleaning the threads in the mounting holes yesterday, one of them was a real pig to wind the bolt into. I really thought I'd cross threaded it, but eventually, with lots of grease & patiently turning it in & out, one turn at a time, it went O.K -I'd rather spend a whole evening doing just one job, than mess it up & have to spend a month cutting the body to replace the captive mounting nut & repairing the damage.
They're Securon belts but the instructions were really vague & I'm still not entirely convinced I've fitted them correctly, although they work fine -reeling smoothly & locking if I tug sharply on the belt.
I've used a single bottom mounting for the reel & the end of the belt, the same as the previous belts, but obviously, having the memory span of a goldfish, I can't remember how they were fitted. Is this right? The diagram's not very clear, but appears to show the loose end of the belt behind the reel on a spacer collar so it can move freely & pulling out towards the front of the car.
As I said, it works fine, but just looks kinda untidy with the loose end tucking round behind the reel like that. I went out to look at my little Ford KA but that had a completely different set-up.
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« Reply #11135 on: September 09, 2019, 08:37:56 PM » |
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The green bracket below the reel is a body/chassis mount by the way.
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« Reply #11136 on: September 09, 2019, 08:38:42 PM » |
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« Reply #11137 on: September 09, 2019, 08:39:23 PM » |
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« Reply #11138 on: September 09, 2019, 08:42:05 PM » |
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« Reply #11139 on: September 09, 2019, 08:42:33 PM » |
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« Reply #11140 on: September 09, 2019, 08:43:05 PM » |
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« Reply #11141 on: September 09, 2019, 09:08:22 PM » |
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Should be fine as long as the lap section doesn't contact the end of the reel cover when in use.
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« Reply #11142 on: September 09, 2019, 10:52:59 PM » |
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Good, cos I couldn't see any other way of doing it. There's a 10mm spacer between the back of the reel & the lap belt end & I don't think they can make contact. Thanks  |
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« Reply #11143 on: September 11, 2019, 09:16:36 PM » |
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Just one piece of vinyl cut & glued today -& I may have cut that too small. We'll see when the main gearbox tunnel section is fitted. I may have to run some mastic or rubber beading between the tunnel sections to pretty up/disguise the joints -or it might look fine.
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« Reply #11144 on: September 11, 2019, 09:25:26 PM » |
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Started scrubbing the crud off the rear axle ready to spray it & took a look at the handbrake cable adjuster.
Last time around I used a galvanised turn buckle from B & Q I think. I picked up this bunch of stainless support cables at an auto jumble ages ago. I paid 5 quid for the lot. Apparently they were left over from a batch made to hang the Christmas lights in London's Regent Street.
I'd hoped to use one of the stainless turn buckles, but the threads are a completely different size & one end is a left hand thread.
Does anyone here have the capability to make something useable from them for me? Or to make something else, preferably in stainless?
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