John S's Journal

Haven’t done much recently. The weather hasn’t been conducive for me to get the car out. Snow in mid-April in the PNW is crazy. Didn’t amount to much in the valley here but further up North it accumulated a bit of the wet stuff. More cold rain than anything here. Needless to say, not motivating for me to get the car out. Just a few minor accomplishments of late. The overriders that I found on BST arrived so I set about removing the old ones. What a PITA that turned out to be. My GT has the style with the small rubber pad on the front and are held onto the numbers by a carriage bolt which is hidden by the rubber pad. Long story short, the nuts were rusted and the carriage bolts were just spinning with no good way to hold them. It took way longer than I thought it was going to to remove 2 bolts as access was so poor but perseverance eventually won out. The ones that I bought were solid chrome and have a bracket with a captive threaded nut on the backside. New bulbs and all better now. Not perfect but better.
When there was a warm and dry day, I got the car out and started on replacing the carpet with the Prestige kit that I purchased awhile ago. Started in the hatch area as it would require ripping out too much and making the car undriveable. It’s a bit of a Catch 22. Don’t want to work in a cold garage when I can’t drive the car so I’m waiting for warm and dry weather so that I can work outside but that’s when I want to drive it.
The wheel arches and the center console need to be done but those are more involved so they wait until I’m truly ready to rip and tear…