Canadian Rust Bucket
I'm Awesome
I'm sending back my seatbelts and purchasing the set from LMC that's a lot more expensive but should be a direct built-in of better quality. They'll arrive early next week.
While I wait for the belts to arrive, I got busy and rebuilt my seats. The wires and springs on the adjustment hardware all snapped from rust degradation. Got some springs from the spares bin in the basement, a spool of wire, and reconnected it all so the seats adjust again. In Ontario you need an adjustable drivers seat to pass safety, so I had to get that checked off.
After a hour long detailing to get the stains and years of dirt out, they remounted in the truck pretty easily.
They are the wrong colour for my interior, but since I bought the wrong replacement upholstery by mistake they'll stay like this until I can figure something out.
I opened up the doors to fix what I thought was a minor rust issue -- they look alright from the outside -- and discovered yet another massive rust hole in this truck. Hooray.
The inner and outer door panels have completely separated along the bottom because most of the inner has rusted away. The damage was hiding behind the weatherstripping.
I looked into patch panels, and they're around $250 a side to replace the rusted portions. But there was a nice man about a half hour from my house with southern doors for sale at the same price.
Went for a drive, liked the doors, but he'd already sold the driver's side. Grabbed a passenger door in excellent shape, though.
Swapped my Cunningham Machine bushings over, vacuumed the broken glass out of the door, and had the thing hung inside of an hour.
I figure I came out ahead on the door, since I didn't have to burn any time or argon to patch it.
Now I continue my hunt for a driver's door. I'm getting close to having every colour option available represented on this truck!
While I wait for the belts to arrive, I got busy and rebuilt my seats. The wires and springs on the adjustment hardware all snapped from rust degradation. Got some springs from the spares bin in the basement, a spool of wire, and reconnected it all so the seats adjust again. In Ontario you need an adjustable drivers seat to pass safety, so I had to get that checked off.
After a hour long detailing to get the stains and years of dirt out, they remounted in the truck pretty easily.
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They are the wrong colour for my interior, but since I bought the wrong replacement upholstery by mistake they'll stay like this until I can figure something out.
I opened up the doors to fix what I thought was a minor rust issue -- they look alright from the outside -- and discovered yet another massive rust hole in this truck. Hooray.
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The inner and outer door panels have completely separated along the bottom because most of the inner has rusted away. The damage was hiding behind the weatherstripping.
I looked into patch panels, and they're around $250 a side to replace the rusted portions. But there was a nice man about a half hour from my house with southern doors for sale at the same price.
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Went for a drive, liked the doors, but he'd already sold the driver's side. Grabbed a passenger door in excellent shape, though.
Swapped my Cunningham Machine bushings over, vacuumed the broken glass out of the door, and had the thing hung inside of an hour.
I figure I came out ahead on the door, since I didn't have to burn any time or argon to patch it.
Now I continue my hunt for a driver's door. I'm getting close to having every colour option available represented on this truck!
