What a great freakin weekend.
Friday night I get to go see the new Magnificent Seven ( Good movie). Come home and have a great dinner w/ custom cut, (by an actual butcher shop) fillet mignon as the centerpiece.
Saturday night, I meet the wife at one of our bars. It was so freakin cool. I was there first, straight from work, and she comes in an hour later lookin' all smokin hot and comes over and gives me a kiss. The last time we "met" at a bar was pre-kids.
Sunday......Monster time.:woowoo:
But,...
It didn't start that way.
#2 decided that he didn't want the upkeep required to keep the 86 Mustang up to par,..so we helped him buy another car. The car that he ended up with was a 2005 Buick Le sabre. ( I have since nick-named that car "The Sword") That car was a super well kept up, low mile trade in that I was lucky enough to intercept on his behalf.
That car,...decided to sht a heater core a couple of days ago. Today i was gonna attempt to replace it.
It took me 30 minutes to come to this determination:
N.F.W.
No online you-tube out there with decent pics, and step-by-step removal instructions, found me breaking two trim fasteners within minutes of attempting this,..and no detailed instructions out there to keep me from breakin more junk, had me throwing in the towel almost as quickly as I started.
Resigning myself to the fact that I'm gonna have to pay an "expert" 350-550.00 on Monday left me with...............................no plans.
So what else to do but monster work?
I decided to finish the console and the driver's door panel.
The console needed the trim pieces painted so that the whole rest of the thing could be bolted together.
So,...that's what I did.
So,..what we got here is the done deal. Both circuit switches wired in to activate Overdrive, and lock up,...Bot Yeti coolers serving as "fillers" to take up the slack that was there with the original cup holders, and the trim strips, and shifter know screwed down and locked.
I moved to the door.
I had to remove the speaker box cover so that I could get my arm in the door high enough to hold the backer plate that allowed me to secure the front of the door bar.
Now you can see the goofy assed door window motor. I had to run the window up to install the backer and that system works like a champ.
Once I had that little tab bolted to the door, I was able to bolt the door par (now that it was painted) in place.
I still have to stain the little armrest (standing out in the pic like a beacon) and see if I can find a different bolt alternative to hold the bar on. But other than that, this side is done.
This side has taken days......no,.... make that weeks. Between installing the window regulator, the weather stripping, and then building the door panel, the speaker box, and the door bar, then building all of the stuff that trims it out It has proven a daunting task in of itself.
The other side only has a roughed in door bar to work from,.so I'm thinkin a month before I get that side to a point equal to the driver's door.
Friday night I get to go see the new Magnificent Seven ( Good movie). Come home and have a great dinner w/ custom cut, (by an actual butcher shop) fillet mignon as the centerpiece.
Saturday night, I meet the wife at one of our bars. It was so freakin cool. I was there first, straight from work, and she comes in an hour later lookin' all smokin hot and comes over and gives me a kiss. The last time we "met" at a bar was pre-kids.
Sunday......Monster time.:woowoo:
But,...
It didn't start that way.
#2 decided that he didn't want the upkeep required to keep the 86 Mustang up to par,..so we helped him buy another car. The car that he ended up with was a 2005 Buick Le sabre. ( I have since nick-named that car "The Sword") That car was a super well kept up, low mile trade in that I was lucky enough to intercept on his behalf.
That car,...decided to sht a heater core a couple of days ago. Today i was gonna attempt to replace it.
It took me 30 minutes to come to this determination:
N.F.W.
No online you-tube out there with decent pics, and step-by-step removal instructions, found me breaking two trim fasteners within minutes of attempting this,..and no detailed instructions out there to keep me from breakin more junk, had me throwing in the towel almost as quickly as I started.
Resigning myself to the fact that I'm gonna have to pay an "expert" 350-550.00 on Monday left me with...............................no plans.
So what else to do but monster work?
I decided to finish the console and the driver's door panel.
The console needed the trim pieces painted so that the whole rest of the thing could be bolted together.
So,...that's what I did.
So,..what we got here is the done deal. Both circuit switches wired in to activate Overdrive, and lock up,...Bot Yeti coolers serving as "fillers" to take up the slack that was there with the original cup holders, and the trim strips, and shifter know screwed down and locked.
I moved to the door.
I had to remove the speaker box cover so that I could get my arm in the door high enough to hold the backer plate that allowed me to secure the front of the door bar.
Now you can see the goofy assed door window motor. I had to run the window up to install the backer and that system works like a champ.
Once I had that little tab bolted to the door, I was able to bolt the door par (now that it was painted) in place.
I still have to stain the little armrest (standing out in the pic like a beacon) and see if I can find a different bolt alternative to hold the bar on. But other than that, this side is done.
This side has taken days......no,.... make that weeks. Between installing the window regulator, the weather stripping, and then building the door panel, the speaker box, and the door bar, then building all of the stuff that trims it out It has proven a daunting task in of itself.
The other side only has a roughed in door bar to work from,.so I'm thinkin a month before I get that side to a point equal to the driver's door.