Interior progress and waiting on parts

Did get other half of front suspension dismantled.  Plus Ray's neighbor at PM Maintenance, Danny, was able to use a torch and get the lower trunnion bolt out for us, thanks Danny!

Waiting on parts to put front suspension back together.  Meantime we're moving forward on the interior.  But first here's a picture of a windshield pillar after Ray sanded it down and painted it, looks pretty darn good:

We got some PC-7 epoxy, which is what the pros on old steering wheel restoration use.  Filled in biggest cracks and put a quick coat of black paint on, looks decent in a picture but in person needs a little more work.  But we think it will look very good when done.

Vince brought the two door caps home to start dismantle and recovering using the vinyl and beading from our interior kit.  The biggest challenge is the rusted up fasteners which typically have one end in a blind location embedded in wood.  When the threads will not break free, then the part embedded in the wood starts spinning.

Here's the parts from the first cap after dismantle:

Here's a closeup of a screw anchor Vince recycled from an old MGTD interior door to replace the one he had to drill out to dismantle the assembly:

The plywood at the base of the soft member of the cap was pretty rotted away, and was damaged in trying to get the screw anchors out.  Vince replaced this with plywood from above mentioned MGTD since it's a flat piece with just six holes in it, then glued the foam to the piece.  Picture shows foam, then new plywood piece, then old damaged plywood:

Finally here's a picture of the rebuilt door cap next to the old one from the other side.  Turned out pretty good.

Hopefully with what he's learned, Vince can do the other door cap in much less than six hours!