Biohazard

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Passenger side completed this morning. Then it was time to get the hinges onto the back seat and get the seat in!

Cleaned up the cams that release the seat latches.



When reassembling the hinges, leave the bolts loose until you get those cam lobes on. They need to be centered in the hole - unlike what we have here.



Cam lobes installed.



Cam in action. I gave 'em a thin smear of lube for a nice smooth feel when working the seat release.

 
Looks like the lower carpet trim shined up nicely!

She's coming together!
 
Seat time!!

After some frustration with trying to install the cushions in the wrong order, then one bolt rolling under the seat bottom after it was installed but ... anyway ... placed some soft strips under the mounting tabs for some chaff prevention. I had also put a small square of peel-n-seal over the hole to ensure it was sealed up well.



The end result was good.



Cell pics are bad. The light coming in through that end of the garage was washing out the camera and I'm working nights and was gone before it got dark enough for good pics but there'll be some later.

As you can see, the hinge covers are still red. They aren't in such terrible shape that I need to cover or paint them unless I just want to but I'm thinking about just leaving them - just for the sake of retaining one little bit of the original interior.



After all that, it was hard leaving for work this afternoon.

 
Disagree!

That rear looks great lighting or not! Like the color it pops!

It would be interesting to see the car up close with Red/white/Black.

The white has to had some cool contrast!
 
Glad you like, but I do think some better pics will really heat up your monitor!
Yep, the carpet edge strips turned out nice enough for me.
Next on the agenda will be backing the car out when I have a couple days of fair weather and no work so I can sand and paint the inside of the doors. I already have the door cards on hand. Need to get some chromed armrest bases and either blacken my existing arm rests or procure new ones. Parts are migrating from shelf to car like swallows. So cool.
 
Spent just a small amount of time in the garage today - have a lot going on (life) but managed to reinstall an interior trim panel and place some body plugs. The fun ones were the two that go under the rear of the car just behind the tires. I could see some junk wedged between the body panels inside near the hole but they were too jammed to come out. Apparently, flushing with water didn't get it all out.



The solution was to place the nozzle of my shop vac right up to the hole and bang on the lower part of the quarter panel.

You should have heard all the crap running through the vacuum hose!
 
Dang the trunk drops look solid!!!!! I did not have near as much metal, cause it was iron oxide! Nice solid car!
 
T&T - Been following this thread since last year, but I personally wanted to thank you for the vinyl + foam repadding trick and all the other information you've provided for seat repair. Putting it all to use on my '68 B-body.

-Kurt
 
Kurt, the help I've gotten from other FABO members outshines me. I'm glad you found something useful here and I appreciate the comment. Have fun stretching that vinyl!!
 
Teeth & Tires said:
Kurt, the help I've gotten from other FABO members outshines me. I'm glad you found something useful here and I appreciate the comment. Have fun stretching that vinyl!!
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A little bit from everybody helps to make for a very knowledgeable community - and to that, I thank you and everyone else down the chain that made the sharing of this info possible.

I'm rather lucky in that the seats were already half-decently recovered by the P/O. I'm only down in the muck of it because half of the driver's side springs are broken and need to be replaced. Should be interesting trying to source these, because I can't weld the originals.

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-Kurt
 
Teeth & Tires said:
Maybe acquiring some fresh wire and bending new ones yourself would work?
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Already thought of that, but where would the tensile strength come from?

I'm not sure it's as simple as heating the rod red-hot and dumping it in a bucket of water. It'd harden it, but in what way?

-Kurt
 
Metallurgy...not my thing. Rapid heat n' cool makes metal more brittle, I do know that.
I was thinking more of just working with heated (not glowing) wire and just bending it with tools into the shape of the spring you're replacing.
Finding heavy enough wire, though, would be the first point of order.
 
Teeth & Tires said:
Metallurgy...not my thing. Rapid heat n' cool makes metal more brittle, I do know that.
I was thinking more of just working with heated (not glowing) wire and just bending it with tools into the shape of the spring you're replacing.
Finding heavy enough wire, though, would be the first point of order.
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Interesting thought. I'll know more after some Googling tonight.

-Kurt
 
why not just sacrifice some springs out of a modern seat from the yard?
 
JoeSBP said:
why not just sacrifice some springs out of a modern seat from the yard?
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Spring size/fit/tension, and general annoyance of pulling the hog rings on every seat in sight until I find one that works. Going to put a wanted out on FBBO and FABO (here's hoping the A-body bench springs are the same).

-Kurt

P.S.: Looks like we're heading for a thread hijack. Sorry, T&T!
 
yeah, the scrap yard idea....not so much. Other than just finding another B-body bench in better condition.
 
Teeth & Tires said:
yeah, the scrap yard idea....not so much. Other than just finding another B-body bench in better condition.
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I called the only person I've ever met with a parts B-body (Correction: only person in town I know with ANY 'pre-71 B-body) and asked him about the bench. Provided it IS a bench...

-Kurt
 
Side project begun.......

Too damn hot to work on the fish and too many other things going on stealing my 'best intentions'. So, I'm gonna be starting a side-project today. It's going to be sort of an...........um........accessory to the Biohazard. However, I think I'm going to do this one 'backwards'. Meaning, I'll post it up when it's finished and then string all the progress shots together. That way it'll only take up one page within this thread.

Well, time to get started!
 
T&T - quick question - did you use medium density or high density foam for your seats?

-Kurt
 
You're doing a B-body - I don't know if there is any diff but on my A, foam for the bottom, batting for the upper.
 
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