Started my upholstery project, planning to redo all the upholstery and replace the carpet with hydroturf.. Removed everything today...
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Started my upholstery project, planning to redo all the upholstery and replace the carpet with hydroturf.. Removed everything today...
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off to a good start, lots of work ahead, keep us updated
Impressive start. My '04 Outback shows a little wear and tear on the high traffic areas and I am going to need to address those over the winter.
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Yes, yes. Keep us updated!
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B, glad to see you back on the forum.
Parrot, hope the itching has stopped from the fiberglass. Tough enough to take off panels for speaker mounts, but tough for all interior vinyl. Great job so far. Keep us posted
thanks j nice to see you also
Getting my gull wings done very soon myself.
ambitious project. teardown looks good except for all the deep cleaning the ocd in me would want to do to the 'glas.
keep pics coming.
I did a similar project on my 02 a couple years ago. I love the gator grip floor that I installed, carpet would be very tough to go back too. My advise if your budget allows is have new thicker foam installed on the seats bases and do a three piece rear cover.
Yeah Berg did it on his and I'm going to do mine this winter.
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^ Yes!
This project looks awful familiar... Have fun with it!
I looked high and low with some trial and error before ordering stainless hinges from ATL Marine. They are 24" offset stainless 2.5" piano hinges. I ended up cutting them down to about 18". Have the part number somewhere around here - you have to go through a dealer for them. I looked EVERYWHERE before going through the dealer.... (Thanks to Jake {Beat Taco} for helping to hunt around too.)
I used 12" gas struts and got the ball mounting brackets from an RV parts store. I think I'm going to bump up to either a stronger holding force or a longer strut because these ones are not holding consistently like they should. The upholstery shop just threw them in so they may have been on their way out to begin with.
If you want I can send you some pics of how it's setup. I absolutely love it compared to the 1 piece.
Can you post them here? I believe this is the part number?
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Sorry I am slow to post but this was just brought to my attention. The picture at the top looks to be for a Supra 242. If this is correct, it is our part number for the hinge is 100586. It is a stainless steel hinge, 2 12" H x 24" L.
Jon Allen
Customer Service
Skier's Choice, Inc.
Yes, that's the right number and dimensions - that is actually 2-1/2" H.
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Used tape to transfer lines of hinge over to cushion so everything would line up.
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You can see here where the hinge has been shortened. I had to do this because my cushions taper down in the back and the hinge would have stuck up and done some serious damage to anyone sliding across it.
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I may get some extra vinyl and wrap the hinges so there is nothing showing. They sit are low and subtle enough that no one said anything all summer about them. I'm probably the only one who noticed...
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Guess I didn't take any closeups of the strut mounting - but maybe these will give you an idea.
http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k...ginecover1.jpg
http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k...ginecover2.jpg
I was dreading pulling all the staples out, this is usually the worst part. I bought this awesome tool. Was able to remove the skin this skin in a few minutes..
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Where did you get that? I have a couple skins to fix.
Stay awesome!
Sorry forgot the link..
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00AIH..._M3T1_ST1_dp_1
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Six hours in, still have the large stuff.
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Finally done with the demo, now I can start ordering materials..
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Subscribed, can't wait to see how this turns out. Keep up the good work.
Yeah, they are spendy. But for me, whenever I wanted something out of the rear compartment (rope, towel, check on ballast filling) it seemed the majority of the time someone was either sitting strapping on a board or laying out in the sun. "Everybody move" and the whole engine compartment had to come open.
Now it's just open one or "slide over for a sec" and I never have to open the center over the engine. I had wanted to do that for about 6 years.
I hunted far and wide and didn't come up with any hinges that were really any less expensive for the right size. Could have gone with 4 smaller ones from Great Lakes Skipper that I'm sure I could have made work; but they were coming in at the $25ea range...
Forgot about someone putting their board on, that always happens when I need to check something..Did you ccut it into 3 sections or someone else? Did you need to make the slimmer or anything? Guess I need to re-install the pad, cut it, then install the hinges to make sure everything fits before doing the upholstery...
The XLV came with three sections but never thought about it. There is no reason to open the engine section so the person sitting there was never bothered. Safer also, no large hole for someone to fall into with potential moving parts and hot surfaces.
Before I removed the big one piece, I got inside with a sharpie, straight edge and flash light and marked it on the bottom where the cuts should be. Lined it up with the edges of the pylon frame/support that goes down on the sides of the engine - where the divider/support walls mount. I didn't make sure they were the same size, just eyeballed it and they had to have been close since the engine is hopefully dead center.
The upholstery shop actually made the cuts after foam was pulled off the backer fiberglass(?) panels. I had 95% of my foam replaced on the whole upholstery job so they didn't have to worry about the foam cuts. I emphasized that I wanted a super tight fit on the 3 deck cushions - minimal gap at the seams.
If you are reusing your existing foam you may want to do a thin/soft layer of new foam over the tops (there was a name for it but can't recall what) to fill in anything lost during the cut. Keep the cushions nice and snug.
I also had them sew on pull straps in the corners so I didn't have to worry about handles sticking up or recessed cut outs to grab when opening the compartments.
(And now's a good time to do something about that pesky pylon sticking too far up!)
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Copied from a Tige I saw at a past boat show...
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Is that black or dark gray for the accent color?
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Dark Gray - color was called graphite. I used the same shade to redo all the plastics, steering wheel, handles, etc.
First stitches
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Nice start! That piping looks huge, or is that just an optical illusion?
Looking good! I think this will be my next big project. Every time I step on my back seat another crack appears.
Keep up the posts. I will attempting this as a DIY project too.
Check out this cord:
http://www.perfectfit.com/15357/1545...yethylene.html
That's just a test piece with some scraps.. Still waiting for all the materials..
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Some people have all the patience.
Use this for cording it will be much easier to use.
http://www.yourautotrim.com/5poweco.html
It's on the way, that's just what I had lying around..
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I may have slightly over ordered.. At now I have practice material...
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