The Interior
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With all the good deals I have come across, this one takes "the "anti-cake""... I had to pay $10 for this angle bracket.. but it wouldn't "catch" the glove box lip, so I had to stick a couple of washers between the lock and the bracket.. now it works fine....How about that paint job ? And guess what...I found that I already had a latch and bracket, but didn't have a key to it...so... guess I'll put it on Amazon one of these days.
NOTE: Please also check out the Gallery named "The Doors" for more interior pictures and comments. Everything is mounted and wired. Little problem with the clock. It doesn't want to run, even though I left it connected to the battery for a week, and was working fine before it was installed. Grrrrrr... has to come back out... plus the radio... have not tucked in the wires in the area of the radio yet... getting late, hot, out of "gas". Please check out "tips and tricks" for more on the "clockwork"... ahah UPDATE: I decided to ditch the speaker boxes that I made and move the speakers to the doors.
Since the A/C system has only 4 hoses therefore 4 active grille outlets, I had already blocked off half of the left underdash outlet to maintain outlet velocity. So when I decided to install a small voltmeter in the unused area (only one left), so I finished sealing off the "voltmeter chamber" from the A/C air. That "gasket maker" comes in very handy for all sorts of things. It's REAL strong.
I suppose this will work out pretty good from a practical standpoint, though a little weird. The wiring will exit the rear of the housing (see previous picture), and I'm having Craig at C & C Sheetmetal cut two 26 Ga. stainless steel tabs to put on each end of the voltmeter. By the way, did you notice the voltmeter is accurate to ONE HUNDREDTH of a volt?
Decided that a USB charger port was in order. The underdash switch is so that I can bypass the "accessory power" so I don't have to turn the key on (and burn up the distributor module) to operate/listen to the radio while I'm working on the car through bluetooth. When I flip the switch to the left, the power is switched back to the normal through the ignition switch. If you buy a bluetooth receiver to hook to the radio AUX input, get the kind that has a discreet "off/on" switch rather than the "push button" off/on switch, as the push button off/on will require that you turn the bluetooth receiver on every time you power it up. I used a Doosl (white smooth case) and it works excellently. When I first hooked it up, there was a buzzing/static sound coming from the speakers. I thought the bluetooth was at fault, but even when operating on it's internal battery, the noise was still there, so I bought another brand of receiver, but it made no difference. Final analysis was that my DANG Samsung S5 Sport phone has a defect in that when on bluetooth mode, the phone itself puts out this interference, but if I turn up the phone volume all the way, the buzzing cannot be heard. So I switched back to the Doosl receiver. Here is a link to a YouTube video that someone made about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAn8bQrhoh0
The three point seat belts are to be installed with the shoulder mount on the post behind the driver/passenger front seat. Problem is/was that the supplied bolt (the black one) is furnished in only one length. Well, the window molding is about 1/2" from the mounting location (see other pictures of the post area) so I bought a longer 7/16"x20 tpi grade 8 bolt and a piece of steel tubing off the internet with OD=9/16" and ID=7/16". The bolt would not go through the cut off tube, so a little help from a 7/16"x20 tap made it work out. Only took a small amount of cutting of the inside of the tube. The shoulder/tube is so that the mount will allow for the pivot to be slightly loose so it will move around.
Installation "fit check".....Not extremely happy with this...but....they sound pretty good.. Found an audio testing website, and ran the speakers through their paces. Seems the frequency response runs from about 45 cps to 12,000 cps. Always thought that 20,000 was the target, but at 12,000 it's pretty dang high frequency. At least that's what I'm hearing.....
The four piece wooden blocks did NOT work out. See the staples along the edge of the white? Well, the speaker enclosure would not cover those, So I had to figure out a fix. Had Tico make a couple of piping strips, then I cut out/made another single piece fiberboard mount, stapled the strip to the back, moved the speaker enclosure up about 1/4", patched the carpet on the bottom, and screwed the wood back onto the panel.
Tykoo of Tyko's Fine Leather Upholstery (https://www.facebook.com/Leather-replacement-103708066390511/?hc_location=ufi) doing a test fit for the first part of the carpet. Perfect fit.... that guy is just GREAT ! He's the first "subcontractor" that has touched The Judge. He has skills that I could never dream of having. He also does things like aircraft seats/interiors and most of his work is for high end European car dealerships. He also buys, repairs/reconditions, and sells antique leather furniture.
Lookin' gooood ! Just ordered two more yards to finish up... dang it another week....see the little green box (to the left of the shifter) that will be under the shifter housing? That's a little radar device that feeds the security system so if anybody comes up close to the car, they get some "chirp, chirp, chirp"s .. cute
