Over the last week, I wanted to start attacking some of the easy picking cosmetics of the interior of the car. I removed the rear seat, seatbelts, and rear seat carpeting. I also removed the battery from the car (don't worry it was unplugged before the wiring previously), which revealed how bad the rusting on my car was, as the battery was nearly falling out of the bottom of my car due to rust spots. This combined with the holes on the left side of the car tell me for sure that both floor pans need to be replaced.
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| Rear Seat Removed
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Rust spot under back left seat floorpan
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Today I've done a lot of damage to the electronics in the front of the car. I've managed to remove the speedometer, voltmeter, and temp gauge from the dashboard. Everything for each of these gauges have been labelled as detailed as possibly. With the gauges removed, I moved on to removing the glove box, which was basically a dry rot pile that a previous mechanic had propped up with foam.
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| Speedometer mostly unwired, with a guest sitting in the driver seat |
Moving on to the windshield wipers, I removed that whole assembly. Back when it was running, the left windshield wiper had an unsteady cadence to it, and I found out that this was due to the left windshield wiper wearing through the shaft that retained it. This shaft is gonna have to be replaced in the future.
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| Shaft on left windshield wiper that has worn completely through threading |
To finish up the front of the car for the day, I removed a lot of the cosmetic features of the dashboard such as knobs, glove box door, and cigarette lighter. The fresh air knobs (as I now know what they are) were the only ones not to be a simple thread, but instead had to be pulled off. It was aggressive, so I hope there was no lasting damage there. Today I also realized how many rider comforts I haven't really used, as these fresh air knobs never did anything, and I found out why. Hoses going in and out of the air intake were disconnected, and on top of that, defrost vents were also never connected. More features I'll have to figure out later.
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| End of the day from under the hood |
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| The dashboard is looking exceptionally empty |
I have some hope that this week or next weekend, I might get a group together to rip the engine out, so I started doing some work dewiring that. I removed the engine hood for easy access, and removed wires from the coil, generator, oil temp gauge(?), condenser, and license plate light. I also removed the front most (rearmost I guess?) piece of sheet metal from the skirt of the engine. I'm gonna have to double check, but I think this is all I need to remove to drop the engine.
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| The mess that is my engine compartment with wires hanging out |