I finally got some time to dig into my new to me '94. It had a bit of a funky odor, so I stripped the carpets out. I ordered a vinyl floor liner from Australia.
The stink has exited the building.
Some of the carpet backing stuck to
the sound deadening sheets. I need to decide if I want to go all the way and remove the sound deadening too. I did this to my rally car a couple of decades ago and it came off pretty easily by heating it with a propane torch and scraping. Or I could try to find dry ice and try that way. I do have a bunch of dynamat type sound deadening sheets left over from another project that I could use in its place.
But, in the process, I found two rust surprises at the front and rear of the passenger fender that I need to cut out and weld in a repair. That was a bummer. It was sold to me as "rust free", so I was hoping to get out of rust repair...
Now to see if I can find someone willing to cut patch panels from a rust free donor.
Then it is time to bust out the tools.
The body kinda sucks. A keen observer will also notice that the passenger side doors are a mismatched color. What you can't see is that both fenders appear to have been replaced too. And the quarter panels and sills are beat up. It is a perfect candidate for a 40 body swap (4080), but my wife isn't feeling it... I figure I'll run it on trails for a while, and when the engine blows, it is LS time. Then when the body succumbs to the inevitable rust, it is 40 chassis time.
The stink has exited the building.
Some of the carpet backing stuck to
the sound deadening sheets. I need to decide if I want to go all the way and remove the sound deadening too. I did this to my rally car a couple of decades ago and it came off pretty easily by heating it with a propane torch and scraping. Or I could try to find dry ice and try that way. I do have a bunch of dynamat type sound deadening sheets left over from another project that I could use in its place.
But, in the process, I found two rust surprises at the front and rear of the passenger fender that I need to cut out and weld in a repair. That was a bummer. It was sold to me as "rust free", so I was hoping to get out of rust repair...
Then it is time to bust out the tools.
The body kinda sucks. A keen observer will also notice that the passenger side doors are a mismatched color. What you can't see is that both fenders appear to have been replaced too. And the quarter panels and sills are beat up. It is a perfect candidate for a 40 body swap (4080), but my wife isn't feeling it... I figure I'll run it on trails for a while, and when the engine blows, it is LS time. Then when the body succumbs to the inevitable rust, it is 40 chassis time.
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