Pics? On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:14 AM, redghost--- via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> I have been making Polei pretty for her debut at the Show and Shine this > weekend. Instead of Griots products I used Maguires for compounding and > wax. It looks ok. > > I had done the door cards in green to make it more Germanic. There was a > white seat I scored from PnP months ago that just sat in the parts room > awaiting my idiocy. The front seats that came with Polei had massive tears > at the crease in the lower leather fronts. They work just fine, but .... I > am too poor to re-skin. Replacement only has damage to side bolster, same > as original. I would need to paint both, so I decided to just paint the > replacement and see how I liked it. > > I pulled the rear bench after I had a few good coats on the driver seat. I > have some dish soap diluted and the grey 3M pad to make them really clean. > With the nice warm weather, I got good coats and allowed them to bake a few > days. That seems to have taken care of the tacky nature. Maybe the smoke in > the air and dust helped. > > This morning I pulled the driver seat out and did the swap. The seat looks > really good. Only issue is that the headrest does not work. There are also > a pair of two prong hook ups that do not have anything to hook too. These > must do a great deal of magic. The back seats look pretty good as well. > > With the rear seat out I pulled a fresh antenna cable to the center > console. There is a lovely Becker in the dash, but with the damage to the > rear fender, I have not put a Hirschmann out back. I needed to remove the > thresholds to access under the carpet. They were pretty filthy, so I > cleaned them up and gave them a coat of green as well. They will live > outside for a few days until the show. > > I did get the siren working. > > The hole in the receiver/drier got bits ordered, which showed up over the > past week. I just got the unit today. The pressure sensor and temp sensors > came earlier. I have no idea why all three boxes had to be HUGE and mostly > packed with air and this giant stuffing snake. I got two boxes the size of > a pair of match boxes in these 18x18x12 cardboard monsters. Same as the > drier. At least I will have something to put the 525 viscosity oil in. One > day. > > clay > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
