John S's Journal

Finished up with the carpet installation and got the seats back in place.
I ran a tap through all of the bolt holes for the seat tracks and then layer the carpets down and used a small screwdriver to punch through the carpet and insulation. Followed up with a hot soldering iron to make nice neat circular holes for the bolts. After that, I ran the bolts through the spacers on top of the carpet and snugged them up to located them over the bolt holes and then heated a piece of copper pipe that fit perfectly over the metal spacers. This made 8 perfect holes so that the spacers would sit flat on the floorboards. I haven’t put snaps on the footwell carpet pieces yet but that may happen yet. I still need to finish the speaker wire routing in the rear of the car and I want to see about cutting a spare battery box cover so that I can open up the individual sides separately but other than that, the interior work is complete.

The OD screen has been leaking since the install so after draining the gearbox a couple days ago, it had finally stopped dripping so after some a thorough wipe down with some brake cleaner, I re-sealed with some Permatex black sealant and hopefully that will fix the leak. Drying overnight before refilling. Fingers crossed.