Interior Mustang Mods

Not just a...

pretty face you really are a wealth of information are you? :2_thumbs_up_-_anima

 

Nah, just curious enough to experiment.

This junkyard processes cars for the smelters in Asia, sometimes 50 to 100 per day, but they leave them in yard for folks to get parts from for a week or two and push out the hulks to their own rail spur. So they don't charge much. It's like petty cash money for them.

 

WOW what a resource. I've heard you mention before for folks to go to junkyards and remove parts themselves, but around here you can't do that. You have to order the part you want and somebody removes it for you. And these parts are for relative newer cars not cars as old as fannie.
That's excellent to have that so close.

 

That's not the Nova Scotia I knew, back in the 70's. Is that just around your town, or all over? I spent a lot of time near Windsor, NS and had some army buddies from Cape Breton.

 

SOB!!!

Well Fannie, Its not the Manitoba that I knew, since Friday Evening, either. The Province is giving people with clunkers, $440 in cash incentives to send them to the junkyards. And THEN!!!, the Provincial Auto Insurance agency, Manitoba Public Insurance - MPI, will no longer auction off anything older than 1995! Anything older goes to the crusher!

They knew people would get upset, so CBC - Manitoba only posted the 2 minute Photo-Op video of the announcement, without allowing comments.
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Canada/Manitoba/ID=1605745472

I then found the Province's text announcement on its site:
http://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?archive=&item=9844

But!

Right now, MPI holds weekly auctions to sell off cars used in crime, damaged, or abandoned:
http://mpi.mb.ca/salvage/salvage_data.asp

They don't have this announcement on their site yet.

Oh yeah! And the "Manitoba Vehicle Standards Advisory Board" is formed of Automobile car dealers and lobbyists. Not one consumer or hobbyist or Aftermarket Parts lobbyist.

Who decides what is Classic? My guess is that 15 years or older isn't the rule-of-thumb anymore. My Fairmont wouldn't make it. Maybe I should change to a Mustang Grille, and re-register it as a Mustang. They use the grille to register custom-built cars here. (wink-wink).

I even High-jack my own thread, see?

 

You remember Bill Blaikie, don't you Fannie? The big mountain lion of an MP, that used to keep Trudeau, Mulroney, Chretien, Paul Martin and even Harper in check? He's now our Conservation Minister. I wrote the SOB and hope I got through to him. He'll have some grits with his eggs on Monday!

 

Off to play!

New tunnel for the e-brake, speakers to mount, door panels to reinstall, dash, console, new colour matched dome lights (newer Cougar lamps, at the cargo area too! - the old one just doesn't give enough light.)

Pics tomorrow.

 

Detailing sure eats up a lot of time.

I bought some of Pro-Form's rubber cement for the new weatherstrips. Ford didn't use any at the factory, and for the most part, they stayed in place, so I did the sills and the tailgate seal. Then I used Gunk's spray on white grease on all the latches and window hardware and the door hinges. What a difference. Feels like closing a Lincoln door!

Then I painted the new Cougar dome/map lamps to match the headliner, after taking them all apart and cleaning the light bulbs and lenses. Then the door speaker wiring had to be fed through those flexible wire conduits, meaning I had to pull some connectors apart tucked right inside the area where the heater box is. Then seal them back in. The antennaa grommet decided to pop out, so I got that back in and used rubber cement on it. Old dry grommet, and no spare.

Then I got the door speakers in. Door watershields and panels go back in tomorrow, along with the dash. Console tunnel gets done and carpet reinstalled with the console close behind. Then the rear speakers.

Still have to change a bent roofrack bar (length) which I already have from a car that Andy and I disembowelled at the JY back in May, IIRC. Then the AC condenser, rad flushing and new coolant. Two days should do it and we've got great sunny weather until next Monday. The wife's back Sunday nite, so I gotta hustle my buns and get more renos done too! Lots going on here.

Movie nite tonite. I'll plug in The Heist or one of the Ocean's flicks. Popcorn and early to bed, for this sack of beans.

 

More detailing today too. Got the front door watershields and door panels back in, after finding out that I had to make the speaker holes in the doors just a bit taller. With the angled spacer and speakers on, my holes didn't allow enough room to install the door panel on.

Also got the Lincoln sunvisors reupholstered and the vanity lights in and wired. Took pictures but it was too dark. Early start tomorrow should get a lot done. Nice and warm from the morning until almost 9:00 PM.

 

Dash is back in. The Kicker brand 3.5" tweeters are just a bit too high and too deep for the driver's side. I carved out a small section above the LH side of the instrument panel - carved, not hacked... and the dried out powdery foam under the grille area. Might have to find some speaker grille inserts to locate above that.

Routing the factory harness inside those can be a major PITA! I left all the white nylon harness supports in place when I removed the dash, and hooked them back in. Piece of cake. The other thing was to reroute the AC control's vacuum tubes ABOVE the center plenum, not under. That clears the glove box to open without hitting it every time. Very straight forward for a change. These styrene dashs are brittle and can crack with too must pressure, so there's a limit to just how much you can push the main harness into the designated 'channel' (runs over the steering column from the LH fusebox, and over to the radio area (middle). Got it in, fitting fine. Should wrap up tomorrow. Cargo speakers, AC condenser, ebrake tunnel section and done! Early start tomorrow too.

 

pics or it NEVER happened norm, you know the drill!

what are ya new?

 

Great minds think alike. I just took a few just before the sun went down (7:36 PM here).

Both front doors now have the Lincoln Premium Sound speakers, and all the doors have their new watershields, white grease on the latches and window arms.



Just no luck with getting a forward angle in the side panels in the cargo area. So I moved them out, by making a speaker mount panel, so that the Lincoln sound baffle can go in, and the upward angle of the Lincoln Premium Sound speaker grilles can at least push the sound up, instead of across.

Passenger side with baffle cone. The wiring harness slips through a slot in the baffle. Side panel with new grille, Pop rivets tomorrow morning on the mounts.


Ditto with the Driver's side. The problem (but I won't give it up), is the tool box in this panel, and the rear washer fluid tank and pump below it.:


Chewed up a lot of time making those mounts. Also had to update the speaker wire harness for the Lincoln Premium sound speakers. I couldn't believe it when I saw that these factory speakers are 130 watts output and run at 6 to 10 ohms! Might have to spring for a cheap amp, sooner than later.

 

As usual nice work. Isn't it a pain in the neck to take those rear quarters in an out. I've done mine three times and each time I wanted to modify them so that the rear seat back didn't have to come out first. But, I never did. Those are a bugger and floppy too when they are out. Just hard to work with.

 

Hopefully, this is it for those. The split Mustang seats still have the same hardware on the sides, but they're lighter (by maybe 20 lbs. total.).

About the only way to get speakers facing forward in there is to mount them at the upper back rail over the tailgate and in the corners. The newer Probe wagons have them in the tailgate/hatch, but that would wreck the speaker cones on our larger hatch swing. Andy sent me a pic, from the 4-eyed site where one guy did the tailgate setup, but I have the wiper motor in there. Hopefully the baffles help focus the sound better.

 

Oh yea, just in case here's a company that makes interior paints. I've seen fabric seats done and they don't "feel funny" with this stuff on them. More expensive than SEM but I may consider it for the Tbird rather than change the color of the whole interior. I only have fade on the seats and the hump of the carpet in front. The carpet refinisher is used on all fabrics. Lot's of Ford specific colors to choose from.

http://www.bryndana.com/classic.html