My Duster Adventures
I’ve been working on the car the past several evenings and worked on it all day today. Here’s some of the progress in pictures.
Got a couple “stubs” welded onto the subframe connectors to catch the rear outer seat bolt. Since the seat belts are built into these seats, I’m taking extra precautions to insure these seats aren’t coming loose in an accident!
I also got the console brackets fabbed up and welded in.
While positioning the console, I made sure I had just a smidge of room between the top of the console and the ashtray when it’s open.
The current location of the shifter is going to be an issue, I can’t install the console trim bezel due to where the shifter comes up through. I have a plan to remedy this, I’m just not going to have time to get it done before MoParty next weekend. So for now, I’ll just run the console without the trim.
Here you can really see how the shifter is an issue…. The shifter comes right through where I intend on putting my AFR gauge.
Today, I got 2” drop blocks installed and while it looks MUCH better, my pinion angle is still off by 2* do I ordered me a set of 1” blocks that have a 2* taper built into them. Those come in tomorrow so I’ll get those installed and then the ride height should be pretty freaking great!
I got all the power steering lines run, minus two hose clamps, so tomorrow I’ll get those in and fill the system with fluid and check for leaks. I got my brakes bled over the past couple days as well. No pics of all that.
I also bought a rust free rear passenger floor pan from a guy on fb. It came in the mail today so I unpacked it, then looked at how much I was going to have to hack it up in order to work around the subframe connector and the seat mount “stub”, so I decided that first I’d try my hand at making my own pan pieces and maybe just sell the rust free pan to someone who can use the whole thing. I did get the biggest section welded in successfully but didn’t get any pictures of it. Tomorrow, I intend on spending most of the day working on the car again. Hoping to get all the welding on the floors done, paint the floors and get the seats and console bolted in, along with getting some other stuff done.
Bigger visual update tomorrow night hopefully!
I’ve been working on the car the past several evenings and worked on it all day today. Here’s some of the progress in pictures.
Got a couple “stubs” welded onto the subframe connectors to catch the rear outer seat bolt. Since the seat belts are built into these seats, I’m taking extra precautions to insure these seats aren’t coming loose in an accident!
I also got the console brackets fabbed up and welded in.
The current location of the shifter is going to be an issue, I can’t install the console trim bezel due to where the shifter comes up through. I have a plan to remedy this, I’m just not going to have time to get it done before MoParty next weekend. So for now, I’ll just run the console without the trim.
Here you can really see how the shifter is an issue…. The shifter comes right through where I intend on putting my AFR gauge.
Today, I got 2” drop blocks installed and while it looks MUCH better, my pinion angle is still off by 2* do I ordered me a set of 1” blocks that have a 2* taper built into them. Those come in tomorrow so I’ll get those installed and then the ride height should be pretty freaking great!
I got all the power steering lines run, minus two hose clamps, so tomorrow I’ll get those in and fill the system with fluid and check for leaks. I got my brakes bled over the past couple days as well. No pics of all that.
I also bought a rust free rear passenger floor pan from a guy on fb. It came in the mail today so I unpacked it, then looked at how much I was going to have to hack it up in order to work around the subframe connector and the seat mount “stub”, so I decided that first I’d try my hand at making my own pan pieces and maybe just sell the rust free pan to someone who can use the whole thing. I did get the biggest section welded in successfully but didn’t get any pictures of it. Tomorrow, I intend on spending most of the day working on the car again. Hoping to get all the welding on the floors done, paint the floors and get the seats and console bolted in, along with getting some other stuff done.
Bigger visual update tomorrow night hopefully!
