Finally underway again.......

[JOX515]

Coming from you Jamie, that's one hell of a compliment cos your black beauty is magnificent.

More progress over the weekend - bonnet on and only minor adjustment once guards are fitted permanently, door rubbers fitted (very time consuming) and a little bit of the bling.




Also got a start on the sound proofing as well and some other fiddly jobs.

Arvo shift this week, so will do doing a few hours each morning and hour or so after work (8.30pm finish), then back into it on the weekend.

Penners (Matt) from this site is calling over Monday / Tuesday to help with a couple of wiring issues (I cant solder to save my life)...

Cheers, Graeme

[JOX515]

And a very big thanks to Penners for giving up a few hours of his break between swings to help me out with wiring stuff.

Very much appreciated Matt and hope I can do the same for you one day soon.

Cheers, Graeme

[JOX515]

Initial fitting of the roof lining.....






Wrinkles, wrinkles and more wrinkle, but at least they are coming out with stretching....

Well, back to it and fingers crossed I don't stuff it up.

[Ol_Girl_58]

Good luck JOX,

If it turns out okay for you, fancy getting me a hand when you come down? 

Cheers,

Josh.

[Ol_Girl_58]

*giving me a hand, I mean.

[JOX515]

Would love to give you a hand Josh.  Will see you in Tassie 

[Ol_Girl_58]

Done! I'll hold you to it 

[JOX515]

Well, I have sooked out on the roof lining.  Too nervous about all the stretching and trimming and so on.  Will chase a trimmer and see if they will come and finish it......

[JOX515]

But the weekend wasn't a total loss.  Got heaps of bits and pieces sorted out, cleaned and ready to install, finished the wiring of the thermo fan, got most of the underlay fitted (ran out.....) and semi attached the rear bumper just so I could see number plates on it again




I really tried to talk myself into finishing the roof lining, honest, but just too nervous about buggering it up....

Cheers, Graeme

[Ol_Girl_58]

Slowly slowly, Graeme.

I always tell myself that any work, regardless of how small it is it how little I do, is a step towards completion.

Josh.

[Trevor_B]

Hi Graeme,
I recently fitted a wagon roof lining and agree that it is quite a task.

It took me about 20 hours to get it to where I was happy. Stinky supplied it based on his template which was not a perfect match for mine, as a result I had to relocate a couple of hoops at the ends. I believe you sent your old one for Stinky to use as a pattern so should be a reasonable fit?

I used a large quantity of bulldog clips to hold it all in place and a hair drier to help stretch the lining to remove wrinkles before hooking it into the teeth. Just watch the stitching to see how it is stretching to see how much tension you can apply. The material that Stinky made mine from was excellent, heavy enough to take a lot of stretching but light enough not to hold wrinkles much.

Having said that, I probably would not try it again...

Cheers,
Trevor_B

[JOX515]

G'day Trevor,

Thanks for that info, much appreciated. 

The lining fits up ok, I am just very nervous about stretching, cutting and shutting the thing.  Will have another play tonite and see how I go.  More bulldog clips could be the way to go too

I guess I am being over cautious.....

Cheers, Graeme

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

Heat is your friend with roof-linings, but not too much! Outside in the sun, a warm garage or a hairdryer for localised heat. Avoid heat guns if you can as you can burn through very quickly, if the vinyl is too hot to touch then you are doing it wrong.
Another gotcha that I discovered is over rusted  or sticky hood bows, make sure they are clean so that the sleeves in the roof lining can slide easily this will help get the wrinkles out much more easily.

[JOX515]

G'day stinky,

Many apologies for getting the rood lining locally, but when you mentioned in one of your posts that you had an offer too good to pass up, I didn't want to annoy you.  I have got a friend of a friend who is a trimmer coming over Thursday evening to finish it off for me.  He had a look on Monday nite and gave me a little list of things to do for him (straighten all the teeth, etc) and reckons he will have it done in a couple of hours.

Means I can keep going on other things as the nats are getting closer and closer.......

Cheers, Graeme

[JOX515]

Yeehaa, JOX515 has a wrinkle free roof lining 




Glass tomorrow I hope......

[Ol_Girl_58]

Thumbs up!!

Did you have your trimmer mate do it, or did you decide to have another attempt?

Cheers,

Josh

[JOX515]

G'day Josh, nah I got my trimmer mate to do it but I gave him a hand with some of it.  I never would have got that done on my own in a reasonable time frame. 

[Ol_Girl_58]

That's my assessment too. I've got a trimmer mate coming to put my rooflining in next weekend. As much as I am keen to give him a hand, my projected skill level and actual abilities just don't line up with each other in this situation.

Neat job, by the way!

[JOX515]

Thanks Josh, I reckon it came out really neat too.

Well JOX now has carpet, just a couple of little bits to finish then I can put the heater, glove box and wiring back in place.  Apologies for the quality of the pics....


 

If all goes well, will have new screen and cargo area glass installed Tuesday, interior finished  and doors on Wed/Thurs/Friday, new tyres fitted Friday, then start test driving and fixing any issues over the weekend.....

Cheers, Graeme

[JOX515]

Geting close now......

Interior nearly finished, windscreen and cargo area glass in, tailgates on, doors almost gapped and ready......




Couple of days off work now to finish it and Tassie here we come