1966 404 Coupé Injection Restoration

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Saturday the 404C seats and headliner (including the plated parts in the above post) went down to Rightway Heritage Trim in Highlands near Victoria BC.  The headliner will be remade, the metal headliner trims will be also retrimmed, and the seats will be stripped, blasted, painted and reupholstered in a light grey natural dyed through leather (not embossed) tanned by the firm Hyde.  I may get them back by June...

3-14-2019

..the seats will be fitted with heating elements.....

And....

I bought a different set of rubber isolators for the wiper motor and drive, because it's in a colour that more closely matches the latex rubber original.  The pale red ones in the photo will be used in the 404C and the others will be spare parts.  All the red ones are in what seems to be silicone rubber so should handily outlive the originals.

Yes, that is part of the plan.  In the 404 KF2, the alternator is buried deep on the exhaust side and can't be seen at all from above, so a non-original one will be quite OK.  The original is 400W.  I'm aiming for over a kW.

3-15-2019

A spare new old stock window winder for the 404C.  There are two good (I think they are!) used ones in the car, so this is my reserve.

3-16-2019

I finally got the steering column mounted.  Instead of the flector I used a Paulstra Septor for the pinion link.