Lots of time, lots of progress.

A lot of time has passed since I've updated this page, and I have accomplished a lot. I left off with the seats being out of the car, and the fuel system purchased. It turns out that the whole system was not purchased, and I needed more parts. As of now, the whole fuel system is not only purchased, but it is assembled and in the car!

The seats got a very good cleaning, and now look a lot less dingy. They could still use several more scrubbings to bring them back to concourse condition, but they are much better then they were.

I picked up some birch plywood, and found a nice English Walnut stain. I took the original dash and screwed it down to the plywood using the original screw holes. Using a router with a tracing bit, I routed out the new dash. Then I stained it using two light coats of the English Walnut. Then I coated it very thickly with a spray on Helmsman Urethane. In retrospect, I would go with a brush on type coating. I think it would go on thicker and the result may be a little harder and heavier duty.

Then came the hard part of covering the dashpad with new vinyl. I let it sit in the sun for a few hours and soften up. Then a used 3M's 80 adhesive. This is specifically made for rubber and vinyl. A spray on the back of the vinyl, and a spray on the original dash pad, lots of luck, and lots of patience and more stretching and the dash was done. It didn't come out as well as I had hoped, but there is always the next attempt to get it perfect.

Now the dash is done, and ready to go in the car. I now need to fix all of the wiring behind the dash. I am getting close to having it done. I need to finish the wiring before I can start the car, since there are a lot of high current wires just hanging out back there right now. Then lots of testing of each system, and then the dash can go in.