My first fiberglass project

[Captkaos]

Sorry forgot to paste, fixed it.

[74on40s]

Did my headliner yesterday and put in back in last night....Wasn't too bad of a process but a pain in the to put back in by urself lol. I had to use my head on that one, litteraly.

I sat the seats in there to see how much im going to have to raise them up and from what i figured out, if i can mount the frame i made directly to the floor it would be perfect. My buddy tried telling me that i could use the old bench seat frame to mount the seats to. That didn't work out so well, after giving him the benefit of the doubt i proceeded to spend 1hr tearing apart the old bench seat to realize theres absolutely no way that it was going to work.

So im gonnna throw a milk crate in it tonight and drive it to my other shop were the welder n stuff is so i can get them seats in before the big snow storm tomorrow. I'll update pics as i get them in.

[74on40s]

as dumb as this may sound and i can't believe im actually asking this but could someone take a pic of there glove box hinge and the latch. Thanks in advance...... 

[Thermonuclear]

After you stripped all the foam off, what did you do to prepare it? Looks like you added some metal mesh and stuff

[74on40s]

scrubbed the crap out of it and my fiance went to town with a scotch brite pad. And yeah thats metal mesh to fill in some of the voids.

[Grover 1]

Did you use spray adhesive on your headliner?  Looks like it's on there pretty good

[74on40s]

yup.....3M makes a specific spray adhesive for carpet and headliners...Got it advanced auto.

[nates79sbc]

that headliner rocks man, i had an S 10 with a confederate flag as the headliner.

[2502]

haha nice flags. i had a guy ask me the other day about doing a flag on his hood, but then he quickly reconsidered driving it around here before he committed to the paint job. lolol... i like that dash, what did you use to mold it?

[2502]

Thanks,

I learned real quick how messy fiberglassing was, before i knew it my gloves were stuck together and i couldn't let go of the brush.

I'm glad to be on to the body filler stage but man o man i don't think i have ever sanded anything so much. But then again I'm very particular on how i want it done and I'm only doing it once so I'm doing it the right way.

I ordered some autometer gauges for in it tonight, stoked about that. Has anyone ever used the electric oil pressure and electronic temp gauges before? I got them thinking that running wires is going to be alot easier than fishing the 1/8th copper tubing up thru the dash. We'll see i guess.  I also bought some hyper LED blue light bulbs. I'm going to drill a 3/16 hole in the back of the gauge and glue them in along with the light that is included with the gauge to give them a blue glow at night, I'll let you know what comes of that.

I plan on doing a fiberglass consol with some kind of subwoofer enclosure and amp rack, just not sure as to how I'm going to do it yet. I had two 12" audiobahns behind the seats before i tore everything out, i would somehow like to incorporate them back into the truck, as they sounded amazing and i enjoyed the back massage after a long day at work.

I hope to have some more updated pics tomorrow with my seats and hopefully the final sanding stages of the dash. I'll be sure to post them when i can.


P.S.... I'm also looking for ideas on what to have air brushed on the dash. So I'm open to suggestions.

i airbrush, where u located?

[heavychevy91]

do you still need those pics of the glovebox latch?