- City
- Dexter
- State
- MI
I've been meaning to get this up since Sunday, spent the day getting the stock carpeting up out of the bed and installing a flip and fold rear seat. It's mainly to give our dogs somewhere to be other than at our feet or in my wife's lap (she didn't like them free in the back and I ususally carry it packed full with part and tool boxes. Now Kate feels like it's a more useful vehicle
Anyhow, the carpet was glued in with some seriously tenacious crap. I took a wire brush to it in the thickest places to try and de-fuzz it somewhat. Now what's left is rubbery and kind of acts like non-skid stuff. The paint under most of the carpet is incredible, just the tops of the ribs in the bed have wear and there's a couple of spots in the floor at the rear door that are rusting, but nothing close to what I was expecting.
Also, for fear of being hated for saying it, in order to remove the flat plate bulkhead that the postal tray was attached to, I had to remove one rollbar bolt on each side that held it in. After all the crap I've heard about these bolts, I was up for a battle. I put a ratchet on them and they both backed right out, pretty as you please. I even tried the other two easily-reachable bolts just to check and they came out with little effort too. Ah, the wonders of a never-removed, stock hard top!!
Well, here's the page with the pics, click on them to get the full size. The file names are pretty well descriptive.
http://users.ohiohills.com/caoakes/decarpet_rearseat/page.html
Anyhow, the carpet was glued in with some seriously tenacious crap. I took a wire brush to it in the thickest places to try and de-fuzz it somewhat. Now what's left is rubbery and kind of acts like non-skid stuff. The paint under most of the carpet is incredible, just the tops of the ribs in the bed have wear and there's a couple of spots in the floor at the rear door that are rusting, but nothing close to what I was expecting.
Also, for fear of being hated for saying it, in order to remove the flat plate bulkhead that the postal tray was attached to, I had to remove one rollbar bolt on each side that held it in. After all the crap I've heard about these bolts, I was up for a battle. I put a ratchet on them and they both backed right out, pretty as you please. I even tried the other two easily-reachable bolts just to check and they came out with little effort too. Ah, the wonders of a never-removed, stock hard top!!
Well, here's the page with the pics, click on them to get the full size. The file names are pretty well descriptive.
http://users.ohiohills.com/caoakes/decarpet_rearseat/page.html
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