My phone didn't want to focus on the brake light, but you get the idea.Īlso completed some other misc things that I didn't capture in images. Looks like this one will do a much better job than the old deteriorating one and the roll weatherstripping I initially tried to use as a replacement. There is more to the gasket design than I would have guessed based on what was left of my old gasket. The OEM third brake light gasket arrived and I got it installed. I had the body shop repaint the original mirrors as well and I will store those in case I ever want to go back to stock. Installed a new set of Runabout M2 mirrors that I recently received from REV9.
I have made a little progress since my last update though. Something came up last weekend and I didn't get as much time to work on the car as I had planned. Now that I stopped looking for that paint, I found it while looking for something else.ĭupli-Color Engine Enamel with Ceramic. Do you recall what specific paint that is? That color is exactly what I've been looking to use on parts of my car. This last image was taken right after I stopped work for the day Sunday evening. That is a work in progress without much visible progress yet. I am currently in the process of replacing the front hood weatherstripping and adjusting the hood and headlight cover alignment. Installed new door weatherstripping and door moldings.
Reinstalled the sail windows with new seals. No such tools were required for the lock cylinder work.Ĭleaned out the window tracks and re-greased them with Honda Shin-Etsu grease. Side note: The dust mask, ball pean hammer, chisels, roofing cement, etc in the background of some images are for other home repair projects. The door handles after reassembly and some light hand polishing. The arms on the back of the cylinders are different, but they are only retained by a E clip that is relatively easy to remove. Upon inspection, it seemed to me that the left and right door lock cylinders could be interchanged.
I figured my passenger side lock cylinder has probably seen much less use and wear than the driver side lock cylinders. I did that for the passenger door lock as well. After 28 years, the remaining black finish was quick end easy to remove with some fine scotch-brite. My locks had a black finish on the front plate, while the extra parts lock did not. I did that one wafer at a time to minimize the chance of losing track of the order (and hence the keying). The other cylinder housing was in better shape, so I removed each wafer from my old cylinder, cleaned it up, lightly lubed it, and transferred it to the other housing. I cleaned up the lock components and rebuilt one lock using my original wafers and the best of the other parts from each lock. Here you can see my lock (right) next to the extra parts lock, with the cylinder covers, front plates, and key doors removed. I had previously bought another used driver side door handle with lock for parts. It was just stuck open because the spring that pushes it closed had yielded. It turns out that the key door was actually there. I removed the driver side door lock cylinder from the door handle and removed the front cover to investigate the problem. It probably doesn't help that the key door was missing (or so it seemed). Spray lock lubricant sometimes helps, but any improvement is usually temporary. The driver side door lock is sometimes hard to operate. It should be pretty quick work now that I have finished the hard part of cleaning off all the original gasket material. Only noticeable on close inspection, but the OEM part is not too expensive so I ordered one and will swap it in once it arrives. The roll weatherstripping is dark grey vs the original black and wrinkles a little when compressed. Once I installed it, I realized the hole in the trunk lid is a little oversized so the edge of the weatherstripping is visible. The gasket is a simple fixed width oval that fits in a channel, so my initial plan was to just use some roll weatherstripping I happened to have on hand that was the right size. The third brake light gasket was probably still original and in very poor condition. I had previously replaced the tail light gaskets and they were still in good shape, so I reused them. Light hand polish on the tail light lenses and Mothers Back-to-Black on their exposed black plastic. So assembly is going much slower than disassembly. As I put her back together, I am trying to clean / improve / fix some things in the process.
I got some time to work on the car this past weekend.