It seems like there is non stop bad news in my life. About a week ago my girl friend's mother fractured her back. She's 93 and was living alone at that time. Helping my girlfriend deal with her mother pretty much put any real work on hold.
On top of that I injured my foot, apparently pulled tendons, so I don't walk so well. My doctor thinks it will take 6 to 8 weeks to heal.
This leaves working on things that don't involve much moving around.
So installation of the instrument panel wins, so here is a work in progress picture.
Current problems so far, reproduction headlight knob/shaft too long, reproduction cigarette lighter receptacle is made wrong. The dash pad is being a real pain. The studs that hold the AC vent deflectors at each end of the dash as not positioned correctly and the opening is slightly too small. The middle vent opening appears to be OK. I have managed to install the driver side vent so it looks good, but the passenger side will take a lot of work. The pad came from OPG and is not too good. It looked OK when I received it, but installing has proved to be a very difficult task. I wish I had sent my original pad to "Just Dashes".
Wiring is progressing slowly, but I am making progress. Part of slowness is due to the car being partially disassembled so I don't have pictures/notes of how it was wired. At least there are pictures/diagrams in the service manual. The wiring harness I am installing came for American Autowire.
I hope someone makes a correct length headlight knob. My original is missing chrome on the front.
Problems with the cigarette lighter. This is original, the connection point gets fatter along the pink line, this is where contact is made by the wiring harness. The reproduction unit I have has the same diameter (green line) along the entire length. I didn't discover this until attempting to connect the power lead to it.
Driver side vent installed turned out good. I had to carve foam out from around the opening to make the vent deflector fit the opening, the studs that hold the deflector in were only off about 3/16" on this side. On the passenger side, the studs are at least 3/4" out of position.
