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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Interior & Equipment => Topic started by: Conny8412 on April 11, 2012, 10:14:17 pm

Title: Swapping interior completely. Have some Q's
Post by: Conny8412 on April 11, 2012, 10:14:17 pm

I am completely gutting my stock red (maroon) interior from my 87 and switching it to black. I figured id just swap out the door interior's (motors, regulators, etc) because most of it is shot anyway. I ordered a pair of doorman motors for the window, regulators, and power window motors. My issue is. How do you get inside the door itself to pull out and install all of this? There is the 2 square shape opening in the door itself with the panel taken off, but if seems as if installing these parts is going to be extremely hard while reaching through these holes...Let me know if or what the easiest way is for going about doing this...
*Notice the last 2 seatbelt bolts in the pics. Having a heck of a time getting them out.


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Title: Re: Swapping interior completely. Have some Q's
Post by: bake74 on April 12, 2012, 05:55:54 am

     I personally have manual windows in my trucks, but I have watched some video's on you tube on removing power windows from these trucks, they were very informative.  Have you looked and watched any of these ?
     From what I remember, everything unbolts, and you have to twist some of the stuff for it to come out, but it all comes out.  I also remember that 1 bolt for the regulator was a real PITA to get to in the video.

Title: Re: Swapping interior completely. Have some Q's
Post by: PromiseKeeper on April 12, 2012, 08:24:23 am

X2 on what Tom said... make sure you wear some mechanic's gloves...lots of sharp edges in there!

Title: Re: Swapping interior completely. Have some Q's
Post by: Conny8412 on April 12, 2012, 10:37:10 pm

Ive searched for the video and had no luck. Let me know if you can find it and paste the link...Thanks again

Title: Re: Swapping interior completely. Have some Q's
Post by: bake74 on April 13, 2012, 05:58:22 am

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3v6uZarxKA

     This is where I started, then I just kept looking at different video's.

Title: Re: Swapping interior completely. Have some Q's
Post by: mikek20 on April 13, 2012, 12:16:26 pm

As far as the seatbelt bolts go, put someone under the truck with a small brazing torch and apply heat to bottom side while someone is inside the cab with breaker bar and ratchet to get them loose. Once the heat kicks in they will come out fairly easy. Without heat is a PITA.

Title: Re: Swapping interior completely. Have some Q's
Post by: Conny8412 on April 13, 2012, 12:52:44 pm

I noticed! I broke the heads of the seatbelt bolts on the outside clean off! The inner ones are on even tighter. It was a PITA getting the dang seat off in the first place. There is no easy way to get under the seat to access the seat bolts and with them being so tight made it 10x harder...

Title: Re: Swapping interior completely. Have some Q's
Post by: Skunksmash on April 14, 2012, 07:58:45 am

First thing I'd do is get rid of that headliner

lol

Title: Re: Swapping interior completely. Have some Q's
Post by: Conny8412 on April 14, 2012, 08:05:25 pm

Check the updated pic under that skunksmash lol. That headliner was in there when i bought it. Im just gonna leave the black metal and not install another headliner for now. I dont know how well you can tell from the pic, but the condition of the paint/metal underneath is in great condition. I wont have to touch it thankfully...

Title: Re: Swapping interior completely. Have some Q's
Post by: Captkaos on April 19, 2012, 02:30:05 pm

The large brace going corner to corner is how you get everything out of the door.