I put the seats back in with some
new belts from retro belt. They are the airplane latch style which I know is not correct but I have always liked them. The price was right. I also fixed the mesh seat back pockets with new black bungee chord from gear aid. A 10' piece was more than enough. I have always used seat back pockets in my vehicles to keep things handy. Removing the backs of the E36 seats was simple, 2 screws and take the head rests off. Then it was as simple as popping some clips off to get at the wire frame. My wife really likes the seats. I would like mine to be lower, and may modify the frame accordingly. If I go to a rear Downey tank I can go lower with both. Or I could section the frame and just lower my part. It works, but could be better.
I have a
front floor liner from SOR. It is plastic with the diamond plate tread and is supposed to go over the hump but really interferes with the gas pedal. It just refuses to lay into the corner next to the trans cover. I'm debating if I should take my heat gun to it, cut it into floor mats or just get rid of it. I never had the pedal covers and now that I put them on, I dont remove them. Any thoughts?
We took it for a drive and did about an hour with no incidents. Lights all worked great. I am very happy with the head lights. The heaters need to be addressed, the rear heater is noisy and the front was not blowing. Also I need to shut that off on the head, which I did when I got home but that valve is really tight. I was worried I was going to snap it off the entire time. Im contemplating doing something inline. and cable operated instead.
It started to rain about 2 miles from home. I got the wipers to work but the switch had to be just right to make contact. I ordered a
new one from City Racer LLC this morning. Then when they were going, they were streaky as heck. I thought they must be bad, they have been there since the PO, but they looked great. Doing some measuring and they are 15" long, which looks like it puts it up onto the weather stripping as it goes through the motions, riding up on the top when it is stowed, and across the bottom when it sweeps. Picked up some 13" ones to try.
Based on how it feels chugging up hills, I need to sort out a distributor with vacuum advance next. Right now mine is capped and running on mechanical only.
Also, the suspension needs to get addressed this fall. I want to go from a 4" to a 2"-2.5". The rough countries have no flex and are just too short for good shackle angles, even with weight in the back, the hard top on, two people, a full tank of gas and the winch and bumper up front, the shackles are still on the wrong side of vertical.