Interior redo on my wagon

[redfalken]

Nice job Roger! I'm especially anxious to see the Ranger/Escort fuzzies. As a daily driver that sits outside all of the time I really don't like the stock ones I've replaced on mine. They look pretty ratty and the ones on our 12-year old Ranger still look good. Let us know if you think they were a good idea once you have it all together and can take the time.

[Luva65wagon]

Phil,

Jake can be reached either by phone or by going to his web site:

206.781.5230

http://home.earthlink.net/~falconcomet1963/

If you have troubles reaching him I'll call him for you and see if he can email you or something.

I must say the door panels I have do look very nice. Can't wait to see them installed.

[Luva65wagon]

Kenny,

I do hope these new style fuzzies work. I can't see why they wouldn't (yet), but until the glass is going up and down between them one never knows. I hope to reduce the amount of water entering the door by 80% or so with these. Maybe more. Finding Ranger types not rotten was tough, but they are about $45 new online, so if they do work I will be buying a set of new ones to put in since these were already wearing out more than I'd have liked. I actually could only find decent inner Ranger and all the rest are Escort, but all Ranger would have been ideal.

[phila]

Hi Roger , thanks for the info .. I'll try to contact him and will get bac to you if I dont have any luck .....
kind regards
phil

[Jeff W]

Roger, if the window seals work, it sounds like a great tech article for un upcoming "Falcon Flier" club newsletter. I know you are very good at photo documentation. Isn't the digital age wonderful?

[Luva65wagon]

Yeah I hope they work well. I cleaned all the glass today and did a dry fit to see if things look OK. So far so good. I'll take a bunch of pictures of before and after and show what I did front and rear. It'll be a combination of clips and black adhesive. There was no easy way to get new holes on the outside lip of the front door. The Ranger fuzzies have clips I could relocate to match the original holes, but the Escort retainers were just fold-over tabs. So I was able to drill new holes on the back windows (inner and outer) do match the tabs, but the front outer will have to be glued until I can find good Ranger outers that are not all brittle. What you gain in water shielding, but you loose the stainless shine for the black rubber edge.

[Luva65wagon]

Progress Report:

I sprayed bed-liner on it by late Sunday night. Tonight I painted the floor, the wheel wells, under the quarter windows and the filler panel between the bed and the seat panels. I'm amazed at how close I got that paint to match (I mixed it myself). Used a bit too much flatening agent, but otherwise it is exact.





Fresh and smelly



Here's a comparison. Glove box door is original color.



Another comparison. Man I got lucky...



It now can begin going back together...

[Luva65wagon]

Well I've started putting things together, but I really want to find a bed liner of some kind so I'm not scraping up the bed. Rubber or carpet... that is the question. If I could find a carpet of the same color, that would be great. Time to call Jake again, I guess.

I'm on vacation starting tomorrow for 2 weeks and will get a lot done real fast now, so luckily for you I'll be wrapping up this thread sooner rather than later. OK, where's that yawning smilie...

[Luva65wagon]

OH, I also won a set of NOS wagon tail lights yesterday with back-up lenses and chrome spears (sorry if you are reading this someday and it was you I outbid... no offense ). So when these arrive I'll be selling the less than spectacular Dearborn lenses.

Also got new buckets from Dearborn and these too are less than spectacular. Don't get why someone couldn't have polished them before having them anodized. I'm tempted to do it myself. They were quite dull and showed die-press scratches. No effort spent at all to make them "show quality."

[Jeff W]

Looking great. Maybe they will have a "Best Interior" award at the Regional.

[pbrown]

Jake can get a section of carpet to match yours. Cut it to fit and have DA Burns sew on a binding. He's getting me a piece for my trunk. I have some really good adhesive Velcro of you want to make it not slide around.

[Luva65wagon]

Looking great. Maybe they will have a "Best Interior" award at the Regional.

Well... I doubt it will be "that" good Jeff, but thanks for the vote of confidence (if that's what it was).

But a best interior award still sounds like a good idea. I may have to just sponsor one since I'm dedicating so much time to one. Will have to see what the others think.

[Luva65wagon]

Jake can get a section of carpet to match yours. Cut it to fit and have DA Burns sew on a binding. He's getting me a piece for my trunk. I have some really good adhesive Velcro of you want to make it not slide around.

I'm going to call him tomorrow to see what he can get and how fast. How long have you been waiting for yours?

Thanks for the tip about binding. That would be the professional thing to do, wouldn't it be...

If I attach it, I was thinking to use snaps, but may take you up on the Velcro instead. May only need a rubber pad like I use under throw rugs.

[Luva65wagon]

Today's update:

Wow, the weekend went fast... Spent all day yesterday cleaning the door jambs of the old weatherstripping (what a PITA!) and prepping the jambs for paint. While doing so I concluded this winter I am going to be stripping the rear quarter panels and pulling out the quarter windows. There's a lot of surface rust under the drivers side quarter panel and up under the window rubber. Got to deal with that.

Well, as you see from the pictures, I've painted those door jambs. On the body side, since later this year I'm going to strip them to bare metal, I only painted them by hand. BY HAND! Yes, with a very fine brush. I know, weird... but hey it would have been really hard to mask that off for what I would gain. It actually looks OK.

So I've started painting the trim as well. Just about done with them. Should have that all done tomorrow.

Yesterday went to the Pull-a-Part again to look for retractable seat belt's Couldn't find anything in my color with shoulder straps, but did find some really nice lap belts for the rear that will retract. So I got those.

Here's some pictures:



Painted door jamb waiting for new weatherstipping.



Close-up



Filler panel installed and a shot of the new seat belts I found. Even the right color!



Trim a hangin'



Upper right... $150 gas cap. Left are the two "wings" that are usually to the left and right of the the rear window. These always seem to get bent when someone opens the gate without the window down all the way. So I took them off to weld those and repaint them. A "while I'm at it job."

[Luva65wagon]

It's been a few days since I did an update, so here's one from today.



Here's one side of the rear seat brackets getting readied to bolt in. Got to put in the door panel first, but that's just about ready to go in.



The rear windows are back in and I have the outer beltline installed (new style). Inners go in with the door panels and trim metal.



Another angle of the beltline weatherstrip. Black, not shiny.



The new sound system is starting to go in. Those are cross-overs for the speakers going into the center, where the original speaker would have gone. Odd arrangement, but the place I bought all this does this on collector cars all the time and he claims that with the kick-panel speakers and the center as you see below the sound is incredible. These center speakers (Morel) are "supposed to be" the best car speakers you can get for the price. The demo's sounded good.



These are the kick panel speakers (Kicker's). Kicker's in the kick panel... seems appropriate I guess.



Here's what the kick panels will look like and a picture of the center panel I made to go under the dash.



The hole's not quite big enough, but the guy at the stereo store said it won't make no difference. If you notice the size of the voice coil in these speakers. They are 4" speakers and the voice coils are over 2".



Through the glass above you can see how much is clipped. Hope it sounds good.

Well... there's more going in every day. I have all the parts cleaned and painted, so with a little more wiring I can start sealing it all up. More pictures to come...