Rob Edwards

Can't resist a small 928 trivia post- another place where wood is used in the 928- the rear seatbacks:



Latching mechanism visible thru access hole:



The shoe cobblers in Zuffenhausen used little brads to reinforce the carpet glue on the seatbacks, 18 per side.

BC

You are taking the leader off? You lost me.

Rob Edwards

Sorry, too many sub-projects. The driver's seat bolster is trashed, so I'm having that panel replaced by a professional upholstery shop up in Anaheim.

I pulled the carpet off the backs of the rear seats to clean them. Probably could have done them in place but a lot of those little nails were rusty and staining the carpet, so I decided to pull the carpet and the nails to better clean everything. Maybe I'll replace them with stainless, or nothing at all. The weldwood glue is pretty tenacious.

SteveG

Rob is the leader of our peoples.

Rob Edwards

Nah, there is nothing that I'm doing to this car that hasn't been done before many times, and most probably done _better_ by other people, I'm just documenting it with a bit more granularity. Probably too much granularity sometimes, but digital film is cheap ...

All the mechanical stuff I learned from Greg, Dr. Bob, Dwayne, and a million other people here. The cosmetics stuff is newer to me but there's still a wealth of information here, I'm just trying to add a datapoint.

Rob Edwards

I know people have bitched about the aero base gaskets being too small. Well, the flag mirror gaskets are pretty damned too small too...



And there is wear in the paint I can feel from the aero gaskets (which are bigger, obviously, than the flag gaskets...)

This is after washing and claying the area. Next step is polishing with some Menzerna stuff, I hope it clears up...

Chuck Schreiber

Great Thread Rob!
Keep up the good work!!!

Rob Edwards

Before:



After:

77tony

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Rob Edwards

This surflex dye from Joanne at ColorPlus is the shizznit. Sprayed with a Harbor-Freight HVLP touchup gun at 25 psi.

The swatch stapled to the paper on the left is the sample I sent Joanne. The other two are what she sent, plus and minus 'clear cote', whose slightly increased gloss is not pick up by the photo:











The rear console was covered with scratches and dirt from luggage etc over the years. No more:

Ducman82

just WOW

Tom in Austin

Lookin good! Carpet on the door panel looks super clean now!

Rob Edwards

Well...... I ended up cheating on the door carpet, no amount of soaking/washing/brushing was cleaning the area with the shoe scuffs. By some small miracle the PO included a roll of new carpet, so for the driver's door panel and the rail area below the door I ended up cutting and fitting new pieces of carpet.










Was worried about the splice between old and new being too obvious, so I ended up washing the new carpet pieces before installation to give the pile a chance to 'pill' a little- both these scraps are new, top was run through the washer once, the bottom is right off the roll:



Then hid the splice right by the e-brake handle:

Rob Edwards

Made some progress on the front seats this weekend.

Here was the starting point on the driver's side bolster:



FIrst step was to clean the seats of all the oil and dirt. Cleaned driver's seat vs. dirty passenger seat back on 1/17:



Then pickled seats with soffener for a couple of days, then took the driver's seat with the repair panel to Ron at European Interiors in Anaheim.

I picked up the repaired seat yesterday from Ron - $140 for the repair:





Next step was stripping the old leather pigment with lacquer thinner- for 2 seats I went through 2 rolls of paper towels and a quart of thinner. Doesn't look like it from the pics but I removed a lot of color:

Passenger seat:





Driver's seat, no flash:



All prepped and ready for color:



Harbor Freight 4oz HVLP spray gun, 25 psi: (Yes, the gauge is higher, it climbs to ~40 and then drops to 25 psi steady state while spraying)



Seats, post the first coat of Surflex. Need to buff them out then topcoat with Clear Cote.

The Fixer

Wow Rob you've really outdone yourself.

I can't wait to see the overall finished (after) pics of this car.

Great work and informative.