Step 1: jank interior ripped out

[jminer]

After a pretty successful trip of junk yard hunting on Saturday we tore into the interior of our new project 89 Ranger.

Here's a couple before shots.

Basically everything needs either an extremely thorough cleaning or to be replaced.

We found 90% of non seat interior bits from a good ranger so time for everything to come out so it can be replaced with better 30 year old parts.

My wife did 90% of the yesterday while I was in meetings with me helping bust loose stubborn fasteners when needed or to drag out the filthy filthy carpet on occasion.

That's what it looked like under the seats - yikes!

I found a new favorite tool, a impact screwdriver that accepts standard bits! This allowed me to extract screws I'd otherwise have to have drilled out.

Here she is in stripped-out glory!

Next to clean and apply sound deadening to the roof and back panel then install the much better parts.

Wish us luck bringing it back to a liveable state!

[aremmes]

@jminer Give that stripper a pole, stat.

[CarsOfFortLangley]

@jminer

[davesaddiction]

@jminer

Looks done to me.

Just need one of these:

[drVanTraveler]

@jminer said in Step 1: jank interior ripped out:

Here she is in stripped-out glory!

Next to clean and apply sound deadening to the roof and back panel then install the much better parts.

Wish us luck bringing it back to a liveable state!

Good luck! It looks better already!

[Italia]

@jminer are you putting in rubber floor or carpet?

[Huzer]

@jminer Already much better. I had to do the headliner, carpet, seats in the Civic, 20 years of smoker owned, that still had a cup of water with cigarette butts in it when I looked at it.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

@jminer I don't see a spec of rust. That's a score.

[jminer]

@italia said in Step 1: jank interior ripped out:

@jminer are you putting in rubber floor or carpet?

Grabbed an astonishingly good shape original carpet from the junkyard that's going in after it gets a shampooing.

[dejock]

@jminer i am into this project! cant wait to see how phase one turns out

[jminer]

@huzer said in Step 1: jank interior ripped out:

@jminer Already much better. I had to do the headliner, carpet, seats in the Civic, 20 years of smoker owned, that still had a cup of water with cigarette butts in it when I looked at it.

Luckily this one didn't smell like smoke so it hadn't been smoked in recently. I just don't think it'd been vacuumed in a decade and it's dusty out here.

[jminer]

@dr-zoidberg said in Step 1: jank interior ripped out:

@jminer I don't see a spec of rust. That's a score.

The further I dig into it the more I agree with you! Gave it a quick tuneup late last week involving wires, cap and rotor and valve cover gaskets (plugs in it were motorcraft and in good shape) and it runs damn near perfect.

There were a couple of rusty fasteners inside where things had been spilled and were difficult to remove but other wise this thing is mint aside from some very small surface rust on body panels where the sun-baked paint flaked off.

[jminer]

@davesaddiction This might happen to get to the car-wash and pressure wash a couple carpets, not sure yet what our best course of action is.

[jminer]

@carsoffortlangley When I first saw that I almost ran for the hills, but other than the trashed interior and some mechanical neglect it was in good shape. Also it smelled pretty okay inside, no smoke or mold, really just dirt and dust.

[davesaddiction]

@jminer

Do it for OPPO!

[davesaddiction]

@jminer

Or this:

[Shop-Teacher]

@jminer said in Step 1: jank interior ripped out:

I found a new favorite tool, a impact screwdriver that accepts standard bits!

Link please?

Anyways, it's looking nice!

[jminer]

@shop-teacher I couldn't find my old full-sized impact screwdriver so I wandered to O'Reilly's looking for a replacement and saw this one.

Frankly it's amazing and would have loved this thing in the rust belt, so many stripped fasteners that were smaller than a chonky Phillips #2 could have been avoided with this tool.

[Shop-Teacher]

@jminer Nice! I'll have to pick one of those up.

[WhoIsTheLeader]

@jminer Is there just straight up no vapor barrier in the driver's side? That's a good day's work!

[jminer]

@whoistheleader said in Step 1: jank interior ripped out:

@jminer Is there just straight up no vapor barrier in the driver's side? That's a good day's work!

Yeah it wasn't there when we popped off the panel. I'll likely pull off the passenger side too as it's filthy and make new ones.

[WhoIsTheLeader]

@jminer A fresh one on either side should make a substantial difference. As will new sound deadening. Starting with this should make it a lot more pleasant to drive.

[SilentbutnotreallyDeadly]

@shop-teacher said in Step 1: jank interior ripped out:

@jminer Nice! I'll have to pick one of those up.

They are extremely handy and amazingly effective. Especially with a good dead blow hammer.

[ranwhenparked]

@jminer Now that's a felony forest

[sn4cktimes]

@huzer ugh. I couldn’t buy a smokers car. Just couldn’t.