progress
ran a batch of hardware particularly the bed mount bolts through the vibratory tumbler
then painted the heads in preparation for mounting the bed..more on that later- not so fast said the universe.
i should have been doing parts and component restoration while the truck was gone. I always forget how refreshing the stuff that comes off before it goes back on is time consuming.
I used the Toyota parts washer after a kitchen sink pre-soak on all the rubber and rubber-adjacent bits like the mudflaps etc.
I had pulled the headliner back from the door opening so that it could get fresh paint.
So i started with that, gluing the headliner back in place in the door opening. Then put the pre-molded rubber around the lip.
i sanded the plastic sills down starting at 100 up to 600 then painted them with adhesion promoter and plastic paint.
it all turned out good.
the glass guy came in friday and put the new windshield in and the rear slider back in.
I then got the windshield wiper linkage out back in and the antennae.
then I started on a ocd project or two.
the original external b pillar chrome ‘vents’ have a plastic box behind them. those boxes have a rubber backing that is stapled yes stapled and glued to the back of the box. I presume this is so nothing gets down into the b pillar through the chrome vents. these rubber backers were wrecked, the ps one was missing entirely except for the scraps stapled to the box. so i cut new ones out and restapled them and recorded them to the boxes.
i buffed the chrome vents with a dremel and buffing wheel with a little polishing compound and then put them in.
incidentally all of these accessories on the outside use screws with little plastic snap in capturing nuts that snap into square holes.
I took all those out they are behind all the lights and the chrome vents etc. I took them out so they wouldn’t get painted over, not so they would be painted but because if in while painted it is less good for adhesion..
anyways…some of them were too brittle to reuse and I was pleasantly surprised to see that ace hardware has exactly the right ones.
ok the last ocd project was the air intake resonator and the two clamps.
very visible pieces so I tumbled the clamps, then buffed with the dremel. they turned out pretty good, then brass wheeled the resonator/muffler whatever it’s called that goes to the air i cleaner housing with a rubber coupling, gave that a good prime and paint and it looks good.
i then switched to putting parts in the drivers door sill like the open door light switch which was considerably more difficult than it should have been.. i wound up using a long zip tie then taping it to the wire side of the switch like a fish tape then pulling it up and around to the original connector under the dash
anyway - just documenting
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