Shocking....

Good afternoon, 

Only able to put in half a day because of other obligations.  Was able to do a little shopping for a few items and made a visit to my favorite Auto Upholstery Shop and visited with Chip Knight about 'JJ's upholstery.  Chip feels that it would be cost prohibitive to repair the seats and recommended replacement.  Sure wish we could save the seats but given the leather is actually worn through at the seam...

Today I took on the Windscreen washer again, got to thinking about the old brittle hoses and decided to venture into the snake pit again.  This job is really a PITA and one sure doesn't want to have to go in there again, to get to them I had to remove the center console because it blocked the fuse panel, then the dash top could be removed but only after the under dash pieces were removed to pull the vent hoses loose, then the glove box had to be taken out then the wiper mech. had to be removed on the passenger side- get the picture?  I really think I should have won that bottle of beer Rod ;-)

This is the upper right fuse panel that has had a fuse melt down and a work around with an aftermarket fuse holder, well luck was with us as I had a fuse holder left over from Shawnee B. that just needed a little bit of cleaning. It was a fairly simple task to pull the old one out and replace it with the donor piece.  While I was at it I looked at the other fuses and holders, since they were corroded I cleaned them all up and applied dielectric grease to the connections, that should protect them for a long time.

Trying to get a feel for what Jennifer wants done, if this were mine I would pull it out, sand it down and repaint it-what say you Jennifer?  Same with the battery tray-survivor is one thing but....

Sample of beading that Chip Knight could make for us, the color looks pretty good and the beading is small enough that we could fit it under the chrome trim on the hood (top) and hide the raw edge of the vinyl top.  Let me know if you want to do this, always the possibility of opening the proverbial "Kettle of fish". The lower item is the donor fuse holder.

The melted fuse holder

 The other thing I did was to replace the battery cables and cleaned the ground connection.

Well that's it for today, not sure if I'll be able to put any time in on JJ tomorrow, I'm sure Rod is chomping at the bit to get started on his car so as soon as he gets it back....
Cheers,
Lynn

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