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With my
little helper Quinn and with the digital camera and a legal pad I documented
each part before carrying it off to the shed.
DRESS-UP #3- SEPTEMBER 2001
Okay, so this is far from a factory
restoration, but it looks pretty damn cool! I took my old turquoise
neon lisence plate frame that used to be on the front of my 1971 Plymouth
Fury III (the USS Titanic NCC-1971-A) and installed it inside the
truck surrounding the stick shift.
I then took a magnet featuring an old Guinness
ad stuck it on the metal dash board. Next I hung my alien air freshener
that was given to me by my friend Elizabeth Cord when I still had my 1992
Mazda Protege (the USS Defiant NX-74205) and stuck it on my back
window. All of this is easily removed if I ever decide to enter any
car shows.
REPAIR #2- OCTOBER 2001
In early October it got a little cold
here in Kansas so I decided it was time to get the heater going.
The heater control lever in the truck had been broken off prior to purchasing
and so the temperature couldn't be controled. Fortunately, I had
a spare assembly
which had a working lever. I climbed up underneath my dash and soon
realized that it would take someone with hands the size of a two-year-old
to quickly switch this out. Nevertheless I continued. The three
levers, Defrost, Fan, and Heat are all controlled by cables and springs.
I was able to remove the three cables and pull the entire assembly out.
Soon the new assembly was in and all I had left to do was reattach the
cables. HA!!!!! That was nowhere near as easy as I thought
it was be. The Defrost and Fan cables attached on the back of the
assembly and were fairly easy to reach. The Heat control however
attached up INSIDE the damn assembly! My fingers were NOT going to
reach up in there... and I had lost my needle-nose pliors. After
several failed attempts I finally gave up and pulled the cable back down
where I could reach it. I then pulled the cable out so that it was
locked in full heat position and kind of stuffed it back up under the dash.
Okay, so I technically didn't FIX it, but the truck was now producing full
heat.
The next day it warmed up again and as of
today (3 November 2001) it's still been pretty nice out. So I'm driving
around with the windows down and the heat on max!