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The Inside Story (#8)

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Subject: The Inside Story (#8)
From: Larry Wright <Larry.Wright@mail.wdn.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 20:56:58 -0700
Progress!
Boy, is it great to be putting stuff back in the car, not taking it out! This 
weekend The Garage 
Queen started (slowly) taking shape again.

The respray of the paint on the console worked like a charm. The contact cement 
I had a reaction 
with was DAP brand; the paint was DupliColor. This time I used Plasit-Cote 
brand and it worked fine. 
BTW, a 1/2+1/2 mix of paint and cement might make a good undercoating; it 
laughed off my attempts to 
remove w/sandpaper and razor blades for some time. The leather went on the body 
of the console like 
it was sprayed on! The lid, I'm not so happy with; between the interference of 
the seams and not 
having an original unit for comparison, it has turned out as lumpy as a moose 
t*rd, and I'll 
probably keep at it until it looks right. I do not know how to get the ends to 
tuck in correctly 
either.

The kick panels were a breeze. I ended up ignoring the original holes in the 
metal and drill where I 
please; the panels dropped right in. Hint: loosen bolts for the wiper motor and 
the right panel 
slips right in.

The boot doors look really nice. I had one hole in the metal on the main door 
not line up exactly 
with the prepunched holes in the leather panel's subtrate, which I noticed 
_after_ I trimmed the 
holes in the leather. Solution: re-drill the metal! I'm a little worried about 
the hinges for the 
main boot door abrading the leather panels they mount through; perhaps I can 
rig some spacers. 
Dunno. I also, for the first time, now have the rubber bits where the three 
doors come together. 
Between those and the Dynamat, that part of the car sound as solid as a BMW. 
And not a minute too 
soon, either! The pull handle/loop now looks silly in black, and maybe I can 
rig one from 
bicycle-shop brake cable housing in red if I can find the correct ferrules. 
BTW, the Pegasus Racing 
catalog has some plastic bushings that sound a lot like those where the pull 
passes throught the 
boot door, but I haven't yet had the nerve to call and place an order for two 
fifteen-cent items!  
:-)

The doors went in rather easy, too. I noticed that they rattle against the 
doors' metal when tapped; 
if I pop the tops of the panel loose and apply a strip of selfadhesive 
household weatherstripping to 
their backs it may go away. Also, the fasteners I bought were not supposed to 
need the plastic 
sockets originally in the doors, but on both sides the fasteners along the 
bottom seem loose (and 
_only_ there). Perhaps a retro-fit is in order; are they available? And I the 
only one to find that 
the padding makes the panels bulge around the door pull enough to make it 
impossible to get finger 
'twixt it and the door panel?

Surprisingly, the new lock assemblies went in fast, too; I was expecting big 
trouble. The setup I 
ordered did not, for some reason, come with a core for the console. Well, the 
key I had retracted 
the "blades" in my old core almost enough in some cases (you'd have to see it), 
so I just ground of 
the rest w/a bench grinder so, now I can finally operate all of the locks for 
the car.

Oh: unrelated, but I'll share it. I swapped in the under-dash bar from my old 
SV Alpine so I could 
retrofit those vents in (the pull-knob brackets are integral), and discovered 
that it had a tab not 
found on the wooden-dash Tiger. It's at the far right edge and sticks straight 
up where the last 
screw (I guess ) goes in. I'll just have to trim it off.

Larry Wright "I can't get no-- Satis-traction"


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