B.barket
Registered Member
Since I've been pestering everyone with questions lately I figured I should post a little bit about what I've been up to. My truck is a fair weather toy that just sits in the garage all winter. It all started last fall when I took it off the road for the winter and got the bright idea to install step bars and of course broke two body mount bolts. Its a good running stock 84' 6.2 Diesel Jimmy that really didn't need to be messed around with at all. But everyone on this forum knows how this story goes. Breaking the bolts led to peeling back my flooring to cut out the bolts from up to top. Then for whatever reason I got over zealous and just ripped out my entire interior. From there I had a friend who is a fairly accomplished car builder cut out the entire front floor on both sides including rocker panels and replace with new. My floors really weren't bad but I had the interior out and just decided to suck it up and start fresh with clean metal to ensure there are no problems. I don't want to remove the interior again I don't have to!. Got that done but winter is long and the dang internet got the better of me. Soooo, one thing leads to another and the next thing I know I'm upgrading my seats to buckets and a console out of an 06' Silverado. I needed new seat belts anyway and the new seats solve that with the belts built in and this way I also get better seats with more adjustability and a better console which is also a jump seat and a right arm rest. After that I'm looking around on line and the internet bites me in the ass again!. Since I'm replacing the seats, why not new carpet and lower door carpet from stockinteriors.com - a highliner headliner and new dash cover from LMC along with a new stereo. Done right?.. Nope!, I gotta quit touching things, because every time I mess around with something I find a reason to replace it. I was picking at my weather stripping and ended up ripping off all of the old door weather stripping - then removed all of the window weather stripping and door glass run channels and replaced it all with new from LMC. That means the door panels come off so its another LMC order for new window and lock switches - new arm rest pads - and new upper door trim. My interior used to be saddle tan so I did manage to upgrade one thing without spending any money. I just spent my time. I took off all of the interior plastics and painstakingly painted them all black. So now my interior is black and gray vs saddle tan. Playing with all of the interior stuff is at least nice because your hands stay clean. So I had to find some reason to dirty them up, and boy did I find a way. Wasn't by choice though. One of my oil cooler lines failed due to rubbing on a metal edge and sprung a horrible leak that had to be addressed. Fussed with that all last week and got those replaced so no more oil leaking. The only thing I really have left to do is to is put the passenger door back together. The drivers door and the rest of the interior is pretty well done. The passenger side door glass channel run is on back order so I can't put that side back together until it comes. I'll post some better pics asap. These ones below aren't very exciting. Just shots of the floor after seam sealing and then after hours of sanding - cleaning - priming and painting. One of the front carpet and center console during mock up and then a shot of the drivers door. I still have to put the door pocket back on it though. One thing I forgot to mention above that I think I'm happiest about was finally installing my stock spare tire mount!!. I was looking for one of those for the longest time. I finally got hold of one, painted it up and had a tire mounted on a stock rim. There was just something so satisfying about installing it haha!. Again. I'll post up some better pics asap.
