Isabel's West Coast Sister by relentless

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I ordered more car goodies over the weekend. I received more car goodies today. I discovered more car goodies I still have to order.   

My wife came out to help me today. She is a great cleaner, so she attacked the trunk/gas tank where the PO had put some weird rubber-backed rug in that managed to stick itself to the interior. She came into the house and did some research since the hardened rubber wasn't coming off easily. Tomorrow she will try soaking the area with WD-40 and using a plastic scraper.

Meanwhile I inspected the lock set I picked up today.



I installed the door locks, but ran into trouble with the rear trunk lock. I have been using a long flat blade screwdriver to open the trunk while I waited for the new lock to arrive. The lock set I bought didn't have the extending lever that the was on the truck lock I found in one of the parts boxes I was given, so I took the extension lever off that lock and put it on the new one. The new lock appeared to be the same length as the other one, yet the extending lever to work the inner trunk latch mechanism doesn't reach far enough. Length of the lock and lever is right at 4" and is too short.



So I still have to figure out what's going on here.  

I cleaned the inner door panels and put on the repro inner door handles... After I removed the "made in China stickers." I also cleaned up the passenger door panel and put it on to see how it would look. I sprayed a lot of WD-40 in the doors on the moving parts, and they operated a lot smoother and easier. 



Here's the new passenger door lock.



My wife vacuumed the interior out. I will still be taking the carpet out and cleaning the floor underneath and then cleaning the carpet once more. Here's a shot of the new Grant steering wheel.



I put the sun visors on but am missing the center pivot/mount so will order one. It was a pain to get the visors on their pivot rods. I ended up spraying WD-40 in the visor rod opening and had to jack with the passenger side before the visor would slide all the way into the rod.