After making the junkyard run to grab some parts for both the Scion and the Truckstang, I took a short moment to do a couple things. Since the rear suspension work on the Scion may take a minute, I decided to get these smaller things out of the way. One of the things involves the Scion, which is the replacement of the front motor mount. This is the one that mounts to the "front" of the block and to the lateral member that is in the middle of the main K-member. This thing was already patched once before, as a temporary measure. I had ordered a replacement mount and right when the new unit came, that was when the car had the rear end collision. Since I wasn't too sure what the future of the car would be, I put off the replacement of the part, despite the car still being used. Well obviously, with the mount only being temporarily patched, it didn't last too long before it finally wallowed itself out completely. I finally took the short moment that it took to replace this critical part. At least I can rest a little easier knowing the engine won't be able to continue on its quest to tear everything apart around it due to the bucking it does when a motor mount is bad. Another thing I wanted to finish up was the painting of the Truckstang's seats. I already started the painting of one seat but ran out of paint and had to try and source more of this specific color as the store I had been grabbing this paint from was out. After cleaning both seats and sourcing more of the spray paint, I was able to finish up the painting of the seats. There's a little problem however. Even though the paint specifies that it's good for plastic as well as wood, metal and other materials, the old vinyl that covers these seats doesn't seem to just absorb the paint quickly. After spraying the seats down, the paint sat for the rest of the day and still had a tackiness to it that makes them unable to be handled safely, much less installed in the car. The paint isn't wet, but its tacky enough that the paint can peel or scrap off easily. When I've had this happen with paints and certain materials, I found I had to just let the painted item sit for a long time before the paint finally just dried up enough to be able to be handled safely, then still allowed to sit longer, in the case of the seats, where its would be safe to sit on without paint coming off easily. Hopefully these seats will cure more sooner than later so I can move forward and finish up the interior work on the Truckstang. I do still have to spray down the dash frame and the doors as these areas are the last to be hit before I can say I'm done with the painting of the interior. Maybe by the time I get the Scion's rear suspension work done and the mentioned spraying of the dash, the seats will be ready for handling and installation. There really isn't many options here as the seats were already ratty looking on the color of the material and nothing else would be able to be done to make the seats match up to the rest of the interior short of painting them.
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