My Duster Adventures
Got more done on the Duster today. The 1” blocks came in today, installed those and the ride height looks almost perfect! But like an idiot, I forgot to take a picture of the car. There will be plenty of pictures taken of the car in the next couple weeks though.
I also got the rear passenger floor finished up! For the first time since I own the car, it has 100% solid floors! It’s not perfect but dadgummit, I think they turned out alright! I finally figured out the method of closing in gaps with weld. That save my butt because I cut two of the panels a little small.
So here’s the panels all welded in.
Here’s after I seam sealed it. Almost forgot to take a picture before I had it all painted.
And finally, the floors are painted!
Then I started working on getting the heater box reinstalled. I put butyl sound deadener on the firewall, then took the falling apart insulation board and traced it out on a piece of fiber board and cut that out.
I also traced it out on a piece of the foil backed insulation that I’ll be using in the car and used adhesive to fasten the insulation to the board. In typical fashion, I forgot to get pics of that as well. :BangHead:
My intention of installing the heater box was thwarted by my lack of organization. I have no idea what I did with the two nuts that hold the heater controls in place and I’m missing two screws that hold the cables to the heater box. I’ll steal that stuff off my parts car and hopefully get the box in tomorrow.
Got more done on the Duster today. The 1” blocks came in today, installed those and the ride height looks almost perfect! But like an idiot, I forgot to take a picture of the car. There will be plenty of pictures taken of the car in the next couple weeks though.
I also got the rear passenger floor finished up! For the first time since I own the car, it has 100% solid floors! It’s not perfect but dadgummit, I think they turned out alright! I finally figured out the method of closing in gaps with weld. That save my butt because I cut two of the panels a little small.
So here’s the panels all welded in.
Here’s after I seam sealed it. Almost forgot to take a picture before I had it all painted.
And finally, the floors are painted!
Then I started working on getting the heater box reinstalled. I put butyl sound deadener on the firewall, then took the falling apart insulation board and traced it out on a piece of fiber board and cut that out.
My intention of installing the heater box was thwarted by my lack of organization. I have no idea what I did with the two nuts that hold the heater controls in place and I’m missing two screws that hold the cables to the heater box. I’ll steal that stuff off my parts car and hopefully get the box in tomorrow.
