Stuck Again

 Again, I am held up.  This time working the quarter windows I thought were done.  Went to install the quarter interior side panels and could not get them to go in right.  They make the gap between the interior and exterior felts too small and the quarter window is too tight.  So tight in fact the silver trim piece on the front that I had trouble getting on in the first place peeled right off when lowering the window.  This is frustrating for me as they were difficult to get on in the first place.  I believe I posted earlier that I glued the trim on with RTV because I didn't have any of the required installation rubber.  

So I ordered the installation rubber and tried it again and they peeled off again.  Looks like I have to figure out the gap problem between the felts and I think it looks like the side panels are not curved correctly at the top where they clip onto the sheet metal where the felts are mounted.  The curved pieces used to be made of metal but these are plastic.  This means to fix I have to try and heat them and bend them some more.  Crap.  Going to need some help with this.  Of course if I mess them up its another $300 to replace.

Too cold to work today so I ordered more of the window trim install tape as it cannot be reused and I will think about how to bend the side panels to fit better.  

So I moved onto installed the seat brackets.  These are the same brackets I put into my car and they don't fit.  They are made of steel rods that the seats bolt to and the rods are mounted to 4 feet and bolt into the stock seat holes in the floor.  On one bracket two feet were wrong and on the other bracket all 4 were installed wrong.  The web site where I bought them people said they don't fit worth a crap but I used them before on my car and they were fine.  So I had to grind the feet off and reweld them back on in the correct place.  Not hard but about 3 hours of extra work.

Pic of the one bracket where I'm fixing two feet.

The carpet is all in, no pic yet.

Next I need to finish on the side panels and window trim and then I need to re-cover the back seat.  After that put in the kick panels, install the seat heaters in the front seats and install them.  Then the console needs to be cut and fit to the car and painted.  Then the interior is done and I have to go back and figure what to do about the paint.

Right now the stance on the car is not good.  After sitting a while after installing the lowering springs the rear of the car is much lower than the front.  I think the rear is about where Lee wants it but even after I add a couple hundred pounds to the front when installing the hood I think the front will need lowering.  It already has lowering spindles on it but I may have to tear it apart, pull the springs out and cut them off a bit to get the front to come down.  Won't do this until I get to drive it a bit to make sure its settled all its going to first...else it may get too low.