What did you do to your 2002 today !

[Mark92131]

When I purchased my 1600, the vent window frames were pretty rough (pitted and scratched), so I sourced a better used set from @FunElan.  For some reason, the driver's side vent window glass was tinted, and the passenger side had clear glass.  Now that I am deep into the door restoration, it was time to replace the tinted vent window glass with a clear one.

 

I bought new gaskets and glass from Wallothnesh and used the tip I saw on the FAQ for removing the wing window from the vent window frame.  I took a piece of conduit, some washers and a threaded M6 hook I found on Amazon to pull the wing window down enough to clear the pin on the hinge.  I came out without too much drama.  The gaskets turned out to be in fine shape, so I cleaned them up, switched the glass and reinstalled the vent window into the frame.

 

Now waiting on parts to reassemble the rest of the door innards.

 

Mark92131

 

 

[pd_55]

@Mark92131 I had the same issue changing out the glass in mine. The originals had some scratches, so swapped them out, but noticed the old ones were tinted blue like the door glass. I swapped them back to the originals and am dealing with the scratches. The clear ones I have are in great shape. Let me know if you’d be interested in them. DM me.

 

Paul

[visionaut]

1 hour ago, T002mobile said:

Friendly reminder to check the bolt holding your distributor down 

Damn Logan — that could surely explain all the strange issues you’ve had with your timing…

 

Glad you found it.

 

Tom

 

[T002mobile]

Sure could be, makes me wonder what else I’m going to find. The fun ! 

[KaneT]

Another day at @BarneyT's shop. Went crazy and bought the gauge trifecta from Speedhut and with much oversight + direction from the all knowledgeable one in all things electrical here in Austin, Brandon, managed to successfully wire in: voltage, fuel level, gps speedo, high beam indicator, and RPM. Still need to do L/R turn indicators, water temp, and oil pressure but ran out of heat shrinks with solder / the energy to drill through the firewall. The gauges are very nice and really liking them so far just 1 day in. Project also gave me the excuse to clean up and label all wiring behind the dash + center console [which I'm also in the process of reworking]. Also, I broke open the the gps module, ditched the mouse-looking case, and placed it in the fasten seatbelt housing and seems to be working perfectly fine so far. Calling that a win for aesthetics

[Lucky 7]

Noice. You’ll be happy with those, it’s a great product. Did they do the custom faces for you?

[its55]

Wellll… seems that my mechanical fuel pump went bad, so I have decided to go with an electric pump and it ordered some stuff today…

[KaneT]

7 hours ago, Lucky 7 said:

Noice. You’ll be happy with those, it’s a great product. Did they do the custom faces for you?

Yeah - but I didn't waver too much from the stock look apart from going red needle and red back glow to match the car. They're quality for sure. Just spent another couple hours cleaning up the rats nests / trimming down the extra lengths of wire to get the cluster to slide back in better. They certainly do not skimp you on the lengths of wire they give you

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[Lucky 7]

43 minutes ago, KaneT said:

Yeah - but I didn't waver too much from the stock look apart from going red needle and red back glow to match the car. They're quality for sure. Just spent another couple hours cleaning up the rats nests / trimming down the extra lengths of wire to get the cluster to slide back in better. They certainly do not skimp you on the lengths of wire they give you

Haha, yeah, I remember that day. There’s so many wires to keep track of when you do all three gauges. Thankfully Speedhut includes clear directions. 
 

 

I dig your red backlight. I ended up going with blue. Either way, nice work!

 

 

 

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[KaneT]

5 minutes ago, Lucky 7 said:

Haha, yeah, I remember that day. There’s so many wires to keep track of when you do all three gauges. Thankfully Speedhut includes clear directions. 
 

 

I dig your red backlight. I ended up going with blue

 

 

 

Looks incredible - I see you were much smarter than me and removed the steering wheel. It crossed my mind no less than 20 times but laziness prevailed.. plus it gave me something to rest my forehead on when I wanted to quit after it wouldn't slide in all the way for the hundredth time. Love the wood dash, need to get mine in order eventually. Very very clean

[Lucky 7]

10 minutes ago, KaneT said:

 

Looks incredible - I see you were much smarter than me and removed the steering wheel. It crossed my mind no less than 20 times but laziness prevailed.. plus it gave me something to rest my forehead on when I wanted to quit after it wouldn't slide in all the way for the hundredth time. Love the wood dash, need to get mine in order eventually. Very very clean

It definitely made life easier. I had the whole car stripped though, so it was just an order of operations thing. 
 

Thanks for the compliment. My old fake wood was in pretty bad shape, so I sanded and applied new walnut 3M vinyl over the top. It matches really closely to the real walnut I used elsewhere.  For me, figuring out how to successfully back-mount the gauges was the biggest challenge.  I ended up fabricating an aluminum mounting plate for them.  I’m curious how you face mounted them into the ‘wood’ panel. It’s a nice look as well. 

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[KaneT]

11 minutes ago, Lucky 7 said:

It definitely made life easier. I had the whole car stripped though, so it was just an order of operations thing. 
 

Thanks for the compliment. My old fake wood was in pretty bad shape, so I sanded and applied new walnut 3M vinyl over the top. It matches really closely to the real walnut I used elsewhere.  For me, figuring out how to successfully back-mount the gauges was the biggest challenge.  I ended up fabricating an aluminum mounting plate for them.  I’m curious how you face mounted them into the ‘wood’ panel. It’s a nice look as well. 

 

Ah I was going to ask what that nice walnut looking finish was - great idea. I used the rings that came with the kit but had to wallow out the stock black trim slightly to get them to slide in as they were slightly bigger than the stock gauges. Damn I may pull them all back out and do the 3M vinyl too. I like that you can cover the brake light that is no longer used etc

[Lucky 7]

13 minutes ago, KaneT said:

 

Ah I was going to ask what that nice walnut looking finish was - great idea. I used the rings that came with the kit but had to wallow out the stock black trim slightly to get them to slide in as they were slightly bigger than the stock gauges. Damn I may pull them all back out and do the 3M vinyl too. I like that you can cover the brake light that is no longer used etc

Got it, makes sense. 
 

The vinyl was just some careful xacto work, but fairly easy to accomplish. 

 

 

 

And I decided to keep the E-brake light.  Took some figuring as well, but I wired in a little socket and LED light.  You can see it glowing in the original dash pic I posted. 
 

 

Here’s a clearer pic of how mine went together.  I drilled and mounted the brake light after initial assembly. 
 

[popovm]

For those that have been inside the gauge cluster, any trick to get out that retaining ring that holds in the glass? I haven’t been able to get those things to budge. I am afraid to go any harder with a screw driver and hammer against the tabs than I have for fear of breaking the surrounding plastic. 

[OldRoller]

3 hours ago, popovm said:

any trick to get out that retaining ring that holds in the glass?

 

No trick, just finicky. The rings latch onto the tabs in a couple places, a flat blade screwdriver and a light hammer, work slowly.

Look closely, find the metal to plastic contact and tap first one location, then the others. It's a work around deal.

Be sure to mark the rings for location... I did, then painted the backside face for better illumination and painted over my marks. Duh. Took a bit of mental scratching before they fell into place.