Biggest PIA Job!

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Got carpeting and seat covers. Have done a vette interior before...except for seat covers.

Hands are sore, blood on the new padding...what a friggin PIA. Spent a lot of blood and sweat on the vette...but the goddamn seatcovers are the worst!!!!!!:crutches:

BTW..seat frames are in near perfect condition.
 
Sorry to hear that, wish you had asked before all that agony.....

tip from my olde tyme trim expert...not not THAT kind of trim,....the CAR interior type....

line the foam with a opened up garbage bag, the seat covers will slide over the bag super easy.....another trick, scrap the hog rings...use the longer black plastic TIE WRAPS snug the tags through the upholstry, slide your hand up between the foam, feed/pull throug the foam into the steel mesh support...hook and do the next one.....then you can massage it around to fit perfectly without pain....

:friends::crutches::ghost:
 
SmokinBBC said:
Got carpeting and seat covers. Have done a vette interior before...except for seat covers.

Hands are sore, blood on the new padding...what a friggin PIA. Spent a lot of blood and sweat on the vette...but the goddamn seatcovers are the worst!!!!!!:crutches:

BTW..seat frames are in near perfect condition.
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BTDT (several years ago). It looked like a simple job, but it was a genuine PITA.

I might just try Gene's tips on the next set of seat covers.
 
Heater core on an A/C is the worst job after stripping paint which is the number ONE worst job ever.

Doing it now...
 
LOL thats minor league .... Try doing heater core, then put it all back together and a few days later have to tear it all apart again because that blend door motor was bad. This was on a 1990
 
I'd say pedal coversion from auto to manual and replacing the door hinge pins are the worst two.

Stripping paint isn't hard just tedious.
 
SmokinBBC said:
enkeivette said:
Ever done pedals or a heater core?
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Pedals no...heater cores yes. Ok...heater cores rank up there on the PIA scale.
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Got one back done......yes, just one friggin back....not the seat, just the back....one whole day. I have shoulder belts, so a little extra work to line up and make the holes. Looks great but my hands are raw and I am exhausted.

Gene, the plastic bag worked some, but the ties just aren't strong enough. Don't matter, with the plastic bag making the cover move smoother, the hog rings went on easier.


Time for beer.
 
I just looked at Jeffs thread, I don't think there's any job that bad on a C3.. holy crap!!
 
What keeps me from buying a more modern vette is the total/abject use of modern electronics that when old, kills the cars....even IF we can find the parts, they are just stupid expensive, and the amount of rewiring necessary to delouse a modern car is just plainly stupid already....

seems to own a car from the 90's, one has to be a EE or at least a very savvy ET, and be willing to circumvent lotsa crap....

then GOD help us if the .gov is doing their usual draconian 'inspections' ....

:hissyfit: getting to the point, that like on the wife's Miata....the check engine light came on and flashed....it was the airbag module, she nows the airbag will not deploy, the quick fix is to pull the light, but then it's not lighting for 3 seconds on some computer hookup/inquiry.....airbag modules are SAID to be fixable...but no one willing to share enough knowledge, scared of lawsuits, I guess....

but that's ok, they get to sell a sigh-on, or a Pri-us (away from our money)...

:D:censored::crylol:
 
SmokinBBC said:
Got carpeting and seat covers. Have done a vette interior before...except for seat covers.

Hands are sore, blood on the new padding...what a friggin PIA. Spent a lot of blood and sweat on the vette...but the goddamn seatcovers are the worst!!!!!!:crutches:

BTW..seat frames are in near perfect condition.
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Yup I sure agree, I feel your pain. I had to stop after I did one seat, the blood was getting on the leather. I had a local guy do the other one and I gladly wrote him a check!! And I've done a heater core too, that was a piece of cake for me compared to those damn seats!
 
Biggest PITA job is stripping everything down to bare glass, using only stripper, scotchbrite and thinners!
 
For me, the worst job was stripping the underside to bare glass, including the four wheel wells and molding the body seams smooth with SEM and bondo. Doing this with the body on the car, and then rolling on paint, has to score up there on the PITA meter.
 
stinger12 said:
Biggest PITA job is stripping everything down to bare glass, using only stripper, scotchbrite and thinners!
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Probably sucked big time!

BTW, I don't recall what you are doing with your interior. Do you have all the original trim, dash, etc?
 
Twin_Turbo said:
I just looked at Jeffs thread, I don't think there's any job that bad on a C3.. holy crap!!
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Yeah this 90 vette project is the straw that almost broke the camels back. I didn't even post pictures of the pita head gasket job that had to be done on the car. Took me dam near 5 hours just to mount the radiator shroud because the a/c condensor kept shifting or the rubber isolation things kept moving and then to pull the dam rubber nubbers through the plastic shroud put me over the edge.

I don't even wanna think about the hassles involved in the weatherstripping and interior restoration on this car.

I think getting the bose working again will be the biggest pain of the project. Normally I would throw the towel in and buy a pep boys special radio but I'm obsessed with keeping the car orriginal looking.

One reson I gave up on the 82 project was I thought it to be too much work! I should have just completed it and never bought this 90 thats for sure.

Oh well crash and burn live and learn!
 
SmokinBBC said:
SmokinBBC said:
enkeivette said:
Ever done pedals or a heater core?
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Pedals no...heater cores yes. Ok...heater cores rank up there on the PIA scale.
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Got one back done......yes, just one friggin back....not the seat, just the back....one whole day. I have shoulder belts, so a little extra work to line up and make the holes. Looks great but my hands are raw and I am exhausted.

Gene, the plastic bag worked some, but the ties just aren't strong enough. Don't matter, with the plastic bag making the cover move smoother, the hog rings went on easier.


Time for beer.
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The ties that work best for me is the 1/4" wide black ones, done maybe 3-4 bucket seats with them,.....

the newish show foam they sell these days, always lend a overstuffed plump look to the seats, making the install a bitch.....I dunno a whole lot about trim work, just what my expert up in the DC region told me, and me watching him....magic sewing machine....:cool:
 
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