Lick'ity Tear Get That Engine Out Of There !!!!!!

Pulled the engine & Transmission out today and will comense deep cleaning of the engine compartment and the rest of the car. Then come the Replacement of the Entire brake system and the steering system. The Transmission that I pulled out of the car today was an "FMX" Transmission and was not standard equipment for this car so I purchased a rebuilt "C-4" Transmission That is considerably smaller and will fit much better in this car and allow more room for the new exhaust system. :)

Finished Product

I added some 1/2" High Density Foam to the seat bottom to make it easier on the buns. and a little spray of adhesive spray helps to keep things in place while your stretching the material over the seat frames.

**Sows Ear into A Silk Purse**

Here is some shots of the metal frame after it being wire brushed and repainted also some shots of the new burlap that has been aplied to the seat frames. each bucket seat takes about 125 hog rings to complete.

***Have A Seat Son***

these are acctually the seats out of Danielles yellow car I haven't started on the ones out of the fast back yet I thought I would practice on these seats first being that this is the first seat I have ever re covered. I got 20 hours in the first seat from start to finish and It turned out nice. I have 10 hours in the second seat so I am getting better by leaps and bounds and I'm only on my second seat. I hope to get down to be able to do one bucket seat in 6-7 hours but for now I'm happy with 10.

THE SEAT: as you can see the old frame has some surface rust and the burlap is old and discolored. I just wanted to show a few shots of the seat tore down before I re covered it. I wire brushed everything and re-painted all metal parts Semi-flat black before new burlap is installed. as you can see the picture of the small metal listing rods, they also had surface rust the top 2 are cleaned and the bottom one is still rusted "before & after" . the listing rods go into the cracks of the seat to keep everything snug and give the Vinyl a tight look. clamping these correctly is the toughest part of the entire operation.