New Ovation Interior—DIY

[LANCECASPER]

On 1/7/2024 at 6:04 PM, William Munney said:

Thank you.  My preference was to drop it somewhere and pick it up completed. I would say I was forced into it by some of the interior refurbishment companies current prices and/ or requiring me to disassemble and reassemble the interior or pay someone to do it.  I also had the fuel leak problem to take care of so I would say a few things came together to push me down the DIY path.

Patience is definitely required.  And lots of pictures, notes and labeled baggies too.  Otherwise, it’s easier than I thought.  So far.  The front seats are 4 bolts.  The rear ones pull out.  The carpet is tear out.  The lower carpet side panels have a lot of small screws.  The ultra-leather side panels only have a few screws but electronics at each seat position you have to work around.  The center console has 4 tiny screws.  I’ll cover that in ultraleather or spray paint it.  (It’s painted plastic now)  The seat frames get repainted as well.

It’s all at the interior shop now.  Time estimate is 6-7 weeks but only because they can’t get to it for 4 weeks.  I’m confident in their abilities judging by the cars they had in there.  Hot rods, classics, collectors etc.

Also,  I need probably a full day scraping glue and vacuuming and replacing insulation and sound proofing.  Not looking forward to that but it’s one time and done.

It’s not done yet so I don’t want to get overconfident.  Ha ha  But, so far……so good.

In  my experience of doing a Bravo 8 years ago, I made the mistake of thinking when I got the interior out and delivered it to the shop I was half done.

I ended up using Soundex insulation and soundproofing while everything was out. As it turned out time-wise, taking it out was about 15-20% of the job.  Cleaning, doing the Soundex (measuring, cutting, fitting) and re-installing the interior and carpeting and putting in new windlace and getting everything else to line up and  getting it all back together was the other 80-85%. One set-back was the line leading up to the oxygen gauge. The Swagelok connector needed to be replaced. @Marauder was a huge help in coaching me and sending me fittings. I ended up deciding to pull the glareshield also and having that recovered. I'm glad I did it and it turned out great, but I wouldn't look forward to doing it again. People that do this for a living earn every penny they get.

[William Munney]

Ha ha.  That’s what I was afraid of.  I was totally thinking I’m about 50% done.

My glareshield was recently redone.  Good there.

Only replacing insulation that looks ratty.

Crossing my fingers for the install.

Edited January 8 by William Munney

[Yetti]

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