With most of the interior assembled, I've come to the point where I have to work on some of the more annoying aspects of the interior job. That would be the dash and the seats. First the seats. One seat needed all the studs replaced and the other just needed one stud replaced. In order to do this, I ground around the edges of the stud base which allowed me to tap out the base with a hammer. This left a square hole where the stud base was on each end of the seat tracks. I used regular 5/16" bolts that I welded around the necks of each bolt to make new mounting studs for the seats. I ground around the necks to smooth out the welding slag but since the holes in the seat mount panels are slightly wider than the studs, the little bit of weld slag won't keep the seats from sitting flush with those panels. The other thing that needed to be addressed is cleaning the seats. Since these seats sat for 15+ years, accumulating grime and dirt, these once off-white seats weren't exactly that color anymore. I took the time to scrub the seats with some household cleaner and a rag then hosed them down to get as much dirt as I could from the seat material. From there I decided to make an attempt to try and paint the seats with the same paint I used for the other interior panels. I ran out of paint but will be getting more to finish the seats. Also I'll need the paint to take care of the dash, which is the next thing I'm getting to. I ended up having to remove the different switches and HVAC panel around the driver's side dash, along with the glove box door. Once I removed all these switches, which I had to take a minute to figure out how they came apart in order to remove, I sanded down the surface of the dash in preparation to spray that surface down when I get more paint. Once everything is sprayed down, seats included, I can finish up the assembly of the interior. I'll still have to stage the gauge panel and HVAC box in and behind the dash so they can be rewired when I get to that phase, also just to get those parts out of the way. The only other thing left to do will be to sand the doors, even though they're rusty along with the door panels, and spray them down to finish up the interior in its entirety.
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