Re: '62 F100 Uni - yes another Crown Vic swap
Posted: October 10, 2017, 6:35 am
Interior (part 3)
Busy weekend, but we got more accomplished on the truck, seat is covered and installed.
The seat cover fit nice, a little tight on the seat (butt portion) since we added foam over the springs...lol
We got our arm rests.
These are not bad parts for only being a little less than $20 each, they are of course molded over a piece of flat metal that provides a mounting area that should be strong, I figured out where we wanted them mounted, marked the location then drilled the holes, I used 1/4-20 machine screws and fairly large flat washers (thin thickness) with nylon locking nuts on the inside of the door, they mounted fine and I chose a area right below the door latch arm (runs from door handle to the latch), it was about the only area that was basically flat and wasn't too high on the door, so they provide a little support for your elbow while driving.
This basically leaves only the headliner to do, the wife found a pattern on the interwebs that is to scale for the headliner and the small piece that goes around the top of the cab sides that is screwed to the top of the door openings and rear of the cab, this piece on our truck just fell apart when we disassembled the truck and there wasn't enough to make a pattern off of it, so now we can reproduce that piece and cover the headliner and install it after I get a dome light mounted and wired.
I'm trying to decide which dome light to use, the original truck dome light was trash from the mice that were living above it, but I do have the OEM CV dome light and a couple of the cop interior lights that are installed by police departments, I'm kinda' leaning towards the cop light since it's large and might look and work better.
It's funny the OEM CV unit has red evidence tape someone put on the inside of the lens to make it dim (our CV was a detective car), the tape is translucent so it's going to put off light with a red cast, not really what I'm looking for, the regular cop light I think just uses a 1156 bulb so putting a LED bulb in it will be easy and it would provide a lot of light and I'm leaning in that direction.
Tomorrow I'll finish up the power window post.
Jon
Busy weekend, but we got more accomplished on the truck, seat is covered and installed.
The seat cover fit nice, a little tight on the seat (butt portion) since we added foam over the springs...lol
We got our arm rests.
These are not bad parts for only being a little less than $20 each, they are of course molded over a piece of flat metal that provides a mounting area that should be strong, I figured out where we wanted them mounted, marked the location then drilled the holes, I used 1/4-20 machine screws and fairly large flat washers (thin thickness) with nylon locking nuts on the inside of the door, they mounted fine and I chose a area right below the door latch arm (runs from door handle to the latch), it was about the only area that was basically flat and wasn't too high on the door, so they provide a little support for your elbow while driving.
This basically leaves only the headliner to do, the wife found a pattern on the interwebs that is to scale for the headliner and the small piece that goes around the top of the cab sides that is screwed to the top of the door openings and rear of the cab, this piece on our truck just fell apart when we disassembled the truck and there wasn't enough to make a pattern off of it, so now we can reproduce that piece and cover the headliner and install it after I get a dome light mounted and wired.
I'm trying to decide which dome light to use, the original truck dome light was trash from the mice that were living above it, but I do have the OEM CV dome light and a couple of the cop interior lights that are installed by police departments, I'm kinda' leaning towards the cop light since it's large and might look and work better.
It's funny the OEM CV unit has red evidence tape someone put on the inside of the lens to make it dim (our CV was a detective car), the tape is translucent so it's going to put off light with a red cast, not really what I'm looking for, the regular cop light I think just uses a 1156 bulb so putting a LED bulb in it will be easy and it would provide a lot of light and I'm leaning in that direction.
Tomorrow I'll finish up the power window post.
Jon