Wednesday, December 31, 2014

The next steps... sheet metal.

I'll be needing to figure out how much of the sheet metal needs to be moved from the parts car to the Tin Top.  Also how.... and if I should get someone else to do it.  :(

Both cars currently have even fewer parts installed than the pictures and the tin top body is now sitting on the undamaged chassis from the parts car.

The Tin Top:


The PO cut off the damaged sheet metal.  There is surface rust around the battery.





The parts car:




The concerns are the side support stiffener is much longer on the 1994 parts car.



The driver side metal is slightly tweeked from when I dropped the body. 


The parts body is currently sitting on the '89 (damaged) chassis.  Propped up off the frame with some wood.

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Stripping the Parts Car (Part 5, Removing the Main Harness)

The Main harness is removed by starting at each headlight, turn signal and side marker and working back.  These are pictures of the installed harness working back from the front.  The pictures show the air conditioner system still installed, but I did remove, seal and box that system before removing the main harness. Also the power harness and engine bay fuse box by the battery can be separated from the main harness at the fuse box.  The fuse box wouldn't fit through the hole in the firewall anyway.  You work each connector through the firewall one at a time.








The main harness runs across the inside of the firewall and connects to some firewall mounted items items and a few grounds.  It also runs between the heater case and firewall.  The heater case needs unbolted and pried from the firewall padding.  I left the harness connected to the computer and fusebox.








I piled most of the parts in the back before boxing them up.


After moving the parts inside: