1966 404 Coupé Injection Restoration

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Drilled 3 holes in the panels to mount the new carpet in the front driver's side.  The fourth hole was already there above the accelerator pedal.  

Also mounted the new speedometer cable and the accelerator cable.  The driver's seat was a bit of a bear to install because the captive bolts in the bodyshell were not long enough to penetrate the new (thicker) seat runners and so I had to knock it out and put a bolt and (blind) nut inside one.  

The interior is now done apart from the transmission tunnel, which is still naked because I have to install the C3 gearbox and its Nardi floor shifter before final trimming. That'll be a while then.

5-4-2020

Mounted the glovebox on Saturday. REALLY hard to see under the dash...flat black.  You can see the lock.

Sunday I cleaned and sorted all my nuts and bolts into the proper sizes.

5-7-2020

Saturday I'm going to rebuild the AEG/KF with a kit supplied by my buddy Peter van Deukeren from the Netherlands.

The tiny bearings:

The shaft seal:

The kit:

My two AEG PLF 5 pumps:

And today, because I couldn't find the original clips for the dash pad, I made these out of 1mm thick spare rocker panel/sill material.  They now have to be covered with a thin layer of black vinyl.  They join the top of the soft dashboard pad with the soft A-pillar trims.  Each one has been shaped by hand to fit each side very well.