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deer hit repaint and misc interior redo & repair of 20th anny

Reply #30 –
this style door panels is a real pain in the rear.  These door panels are full of so many weaknesses i am surprised that we still have all the parts to make them functional.
My arm rests have fallen off, pockets broken,, the list goes on.  So i get to work on new ideas to make them work again.

door pockets shown.
-drill hole on inside
-sneak in a wire under the leather like covering then twist it.
-i used electric fence wire because its tin coated and wont corrode anytime soon.

pics and you will get the idea

deer hit repaint and misc interior redo & repair of 20th anny

Reply #31 –
I seem to have located a punch card,,, perhaps in place of build sheets these were used instead????
I remember a thread here about this ,, softtouch i remember said he could just look at them and get some information about what it says.... that threads been many moons ago.

deer hit repaint and misc interior redo & repair of 20th anny

Reply #32 –
this is interesting....
this is some aux equipment that ties back to the factory option cd changer in my trunk.  I wondered what all that strange wiring was i found when i had my radio out last time to change the light bulb.. i saw it traveled down the pass side trans hump but had no idea what it was for till now.

deer hit repaint and misc interior redo & repair of 20th anny

Reply #33 –
i suppose the easiest way and least agreesive is to remove the carpet,, then presure wash it and let it dry in the sun.
works for me....... looks almost new again and this must have been the very first time it was ever cleaned.

deer hit repaint and misc interior redo & repair of 20th anny

Reply #34 –
this is something of a problem i brought upon myself.

a few years ago i was hauling 5 people in my 20th and a trunk load of luggage up to Minerva Oh for a funeral.

we develped a bad vibration in transit and during our stay my Bro-in law and I redid our driveshaft u-joints for the fix.

under the car is a metal safety brace to catch the drive shaft from hitting the ground .  during our repair i did not re-install the brace under the car.

this allowed water to wick into the interior and start some minor corrosion.

I hit it with a wire wheel the rust neutralized.

I added 3/8'' butyl tape bead to each stud floor penetration then secured the under the car hardware to seal it up.

deer hit repaint and misc interior redo & repair of 20th anny

Reply #35 –
so........ think about this one for a moment.
your on a road trip and your fuel pump goes out while up in Wash DC.
cars on the betway up there attract a lot of attention from the city.

got it towed to a shop to which they cared none the less about the integrity of my old beater 20th anny.

I imagine they undid the straps and simply let the fill tube just bust its way out of the fill neck surround ,,, its really fragile and i may replace this whole setup with a rubber adaptor of some sorts later on.  for now i repaired the cracks and added a piece of rubber inner tube to decrease the opening diameter but make it flexible for "if" the neck needs dropped out of the surround later.

I just now discovered the root cause for whats going on with dampness in/around the filler neck

think about it on your car... if this surround is cracked or broke, everything from weather , a car wash and the like allows water to shoot directly into your trunk!
I added butyl tape to the surround where it bolts to the body because the original gasket was thin like paper.

deer hit repaint and misc interior redo & repair of 20th anny

Reply #36 –
another shot of fuel neck surround

deer hit repaint and misc interior redo & repair of 20th anny

Reply #37 –
finally was able to integrate a storage cubby in the trunk that this car **never** came with.
its kinda just dropped in and a heavy tie wire up forward to brace it. 
it will work for me and what i have in mind for its use.

deer hit repaint and misc interior redo & repair of 20th anny

Reply #38 –
trunk pieces parts all presure washed and drip dried and re-installed.
trunk completed and redone

deer hit repaint and misc interior redo & repair of 20th anny

Reply #39 –
more trunk work

deer hit repaint and misc interior redo & repair of 20th anny

Reply #40 –
carpet back in,,, looks pretty good.
A little bit of staining but in areas that are completly understood.


Tip for you....... if you have not taken out your carpet ever....
to remove carpet.........
-follow carpet up behind the center dash up behind the ash tray.
-you will find a small group of wires penetrating a circle cut out in the carpet.
-the carpet needs to be cut here. 
-this cut is about 3'' till the circle is opened up.
-pull carpet out from under the center dash / transmission tunnel.

Major tip for easy re-install
-remove the sound deadening foam from the back of the carpet in the areas that made it difficult to remove.
-this would only be enough sound deadening to make the carpet height profile decreased allowing it to easily insert back under the center dash transmission tunnel area.

deer hit repaint and misc interior redo & repair of 20th anny

Reply #41 –
I did find a 20th grill in my stash. Then I reread your post and saw that you were looking for the gold-trimmed one, lol. Oh well. If you or anybody has a need for a 20th grille, shoot me an offer. It's got a couple chips in the red paint, nothing too horrible.

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CoogarXR : 1985 Cougar XR-7

deer hit repaint and misc interior redo & repair of 20th anny

Reply #42 –
i would like a spare since the one i used was my spare.

I'll take it if noone else "needs" it

304 772 3411

think of something to trade for perhaps,  ..... but $ is ok to do as well.

deer hit repaint and misc interior redo & repair of 20th anny

Reply #43 –
here is a mod i wanted to do for a long time now.
How to keep pine needles and leaves from getting under that metal cover along the bottom of your windshield.

add sticky back foam to the back.  bolt it down and now its preventing things from dropping in behind this cover.

now to figure out how to achieve the same thing with the back window lower trim because stuff always gets in between that trim and the glass

deer hit repaint and misc interior redo & repair of 20th anny

Reply #44 –
interior all together....
making my first out in the public trip today after all my restoration