It's Saturday morning. Too early and too cold to be outside working. Luckily, I brought lots of projects inside with me after tearing the dash panel and rear seat apart. I have just enough of this roll of vinyl patch kit (Amazon link) left to recover this crumbling foam rubber...
As mentioned in previous posts, I purchased this roll of self-adhesive vinyl to patch and refinish the seat covers. My plan was once finished with the seats, to take the rest of the roll and recover the crumbly foam rubber dash panel. A new one is around $300 and I'm far too c...
I'm still waiting for the roll of high density foam (Amazon link) to arrive for the back seats, but it's a beautiful day, so I decided to get some prep work done. As you can see, the back seat covers have similar issues to the front. At one point in the past, I leaned in throu...
After last weekend's front seat refinishing progress in Inside the Driver's Seat and Driver's Seat Part 2, I had been looking forward to the weekend, to be able to dig back in to refinishing the seats. Saturday was a rain out, but Sunday was a sunny treat. I pulled the front p...
It's day 2 of the driver's side front seat rebuild. Patching the vinyl seat covers Once the roll of vinyl repair stuff (Amazon link) arrived, I got started patching up the seat covers. I picked up some Gorilla Clear Grip (Amazon link). The package says to use it like E6000, so...
The weather app said it was 54 degrees today and the sun was blazing. Beautiful! I watched a couple of videos about how to remove the front seats and it's really quite easy. Simply lift the lever and slide it all the way forward. There are many references I found to a locking...
I had such good luck with the patches in the fenders last time, I decided to see how it would work on the outside. I couldn't get it as thin as I would have liked, but I knew I would be filing and sanding it down anyway. Since a little goes a long way with this stuff, I rolled...
Both rear fenders have cracks from old damage. I bought a tube of JB Weld SteelStik (Amazon link), which is steel reinforced epoxy putty. When dried, it is hard enough to drill and tap, so I figured it would work well to reinforce the back side of the fenders, behind the crack...
The vinyl headliner and trim sheets are curled around the edges and peeled back. When left alone for a couple of months, it hangs down a few inches below the edges of the rear side windows and looks really nasty from the outside. I bought some rubber cement a few months back a...
One of the first projects I took on was to buy new door handles (Amazon link). Neither door lock worked when I got the car. The key would fit in the driver's door, but wasn't keyed the same. The passenger side was frozen solid and wouldn't even allow the key to be inserted. Wh...