updated May 29, 1998 *''95 Mustang Bucket Seats installed *
March 1997
The interior is plain old black vinyl, with fuzzy seat covers on the torn up front seats. The wheel no longer has a horn ring, and has multiple layers of wheel wraps on it (I think the wheel is actually cracked underneith all those layers). There is also a nasty little k-mart radio that doesn't work. All in all, I'd say it's definitly livable for now, which is good because it's the last thing on my list, after all the mechanicals are finished. When I do get to it, I'm planning to do the interior in light grey with woodgrain inserts.
The only thing I've added since buying it is a SunPro Mini-Tach. This fit in the Clock bezel in the dash. It required a little work to get it in there, though. I ended up sanding away quite a bit of the bezel to get it to fit right. I didn't care though, since the dash panel was already broken and I will be replacing it later. The tach was a huge help in figuring out what was going on under the hood while I was trying to get the engine to run smooth.
February-April 1998
Well, I bought a Grant wood steering wheel recently, and decided it was time to dive in and install it. I recall telling my husband that it was a four hour job, tops. I foolishly thought I would be done by evening, starting out in the afternoon. Well, that was in February.
Here's the deal, when pulling off your steering wheel, use a wheel puller. Make sure you have it lined up straight. If it starts to go crooked, stop and straighten it up before you go any further. I didn't, I turned it one turn too many, stressed out the puller bolt on one side, and it broke off in the wheel. So began my long journey... Many nights spent out in the garage trying to figure out how to get the stuck wheel off (and it was really stuck). Trying to tap a new hole, cut the wheel off, pull it off with a grab-from-behind style puller (which just wrecked the shaft end), nothing worked.
Finally, we pulled the entire column, beat the shaft until the wheel came off, replaced the damaged shaft, replaced the wiring (turn signals didn't work anyway), cleaned up the rust, painted it and now I just need to reinstall and it'll be finished.
Well, while reinstalling it I stripped the shaft threads, and had to pull it all apart again and replace the shaft again. Now I'm an expert at assembling steering columns ;-) The wheel was no problem to install. It should have been a four hour job, but now I have working turn signals, horn, and cleaned up a lot of rust on the column and firewall, so I guess it was all worth it.
Beauty, eh?
(see the white rag stuffed in the passenger vent window? part of my winterizing techniques. Whatever keeps the water out...)
April '98
I've been restoring a 6K tach cluster for the pony - check it out
May '98
The Pony's got new bucket seats now, courtesy of a '94 Mustang who's life ended too soon. Check it out!