This week's work on Thelma

[BrewCity11]

Her driveshaft has been vibrating for a while now. Finally decided to dig into it. Thought i could get away with just a new CSB, but after playing with the U-joints, there was too much binding going on. I'll be ordering a new d/s complete with a new CSB.

Along the way, a few other things will be going on. First, replacing the cracked foglight. I'll be clening them up and placing new yellow laminix on and using new yellowstar H3's. Here they are so far.


Just need to clean the old sealant off.

About two months ago, scored a cardinal bolster at the junk yard from an E24. I took out the drivers seat and removed the old bolster cover.

Remove the recline handle and trim on the side, along with the two screws on the bottom. Panel slides up.


Then, bend the metal tabs along the outside


And two at the top


Then on the inside of the bolster, snip the hog ties with a side cutter or something. There should be about 3-4 of them.


And two more at the bottom


There you go:


Here is the new bolster. Hey look, no holes!!!


After leatherique dye


More to follow in the next week. Hopefully, the new d/s will be in for next weekend. Doing a little work on the cluster as well. Hoping to get this block heater in before another freeaing winter.

[Dragowl]

Nice...pics of Thelma please

[deutschman]

After leatherique dye


is that the front of a rota wheel? how did you do that?

[jms16v]

what happened to that rota?

[Mike]

Block heater, i bet you get some pretty cold winters!

[akorcovelos]

wow, seat looks good man. You'll have to give me a hand doinf this same thing on my bolster, apolstering. <-sp?

[BrewCity11]

what happened to that rota?

Autocrossing my old prelude, drifted into a curb at 50mph to a dead stop. And by autocrosing, i mean some twisty back roads.

This is my first car with leather since high school. I used to hate getting into that thing in the cold ass WI winters here. This way, at least it'll have heat faster.

[BrewCity11]

wow, seat looks good man. You'll have to give me a hand doinf this same thing on my bolster, upholstering. <-sp?

Sure thing man. How's everything coming along with you? House, car?

We should all get together at your place again before winter gets here.
(isn't it sad how we have to do things differently in our lives because of the damn weather?)

[IHeartE30s]

How well does that leather dye work? I was thinking of doing that but wasnt sure~ looks like it does a good job'

[akorcovelos]

Sure thing man. How's everything coming along with you? House, car?

We should all get together at your place again before winter gets here.
(isn't it sad how we have to do things differently in our lives because of the damn weather?)

doing good, house is coming along. I was hoping to get the e30 running this weekend but I'll be putting a new clutch into the old 240 instead . I'm still going to try and at least get the radiator in the e30 though.

I'm down for a meet before winter, I really want to get this thing running before that so I can at least break the motor in and do an oil change to get rid of the assembly lube before putting it away until spring.

[BrewCity11]

All done. Now I just have to get it a little dirty to match the rest of the seat. Hoping to strip and re-dye the entire interior this winter sometime.

Special pliers and hog-ties


Join them and sqeeeeeze..


That's it. About 5 of those and we're done.


The right one is the new one, BTW

[vlad]

looks good, what are you going to do with the cluster?

[BrewCity11]

GOing to try some new colors. Everyones done red needles and polished rings. We'll see if it comes out nice.

[Court M3]

nice work man. Def have to get together. Working tonight until 6am tomorrow morning then heading to pick and pull to look for a few things

[digital_cowboy]

The bolster looks good. Glad it fits.