Hi All
From the rust I have manged to retrieve the bits from what I think are the armrest or centre console cubby. Only problem is that I can’t figure out how they work together. Seeking help on how these bits, in the pic below, work together to allow the lid to function?
Lastly for tonight, I have checked (Man’s look admittedly) SNG but cant see whether they sell the receiver for the bulbous male part on the lid that located into the cubby. I think the spring metal piece in mine is stuffed and can’t see me fixing it.
Thanks @Ahwahnee , pics are exactly what I needed.
In your last pic, I gather that piece that is secured there by one screw stops the lid over opening, is that correct?
And the lid has a taper where the hinge locates? This is what I was stumped on.
Lastly, what is the lid made of? For that bulk there has to be a few pieces to it, not just the single piece of vinyl and stud I have
Re that part, no, it is the receiver that bit goes into. In my pic it is the last piece on the right, under the chrome plate. Pre rusting I dare say it was some form of spring steel.
Cheers
Jacko
To provide some context to my questions, here is what I started with by way of the rear section of the centre console, oh and the lower piece of the lid.
The lid has a plywood base with a specific notch for the hinge. There may be T-nuts in the plywood for the 3 screws of the hinge - that’s a guess as I don’t recall actually removing it:
There is a piece of thick foam on top - on one car I found suitable thickness foam, on the other I built it up from 3 layers of ½" foam that was really smaller than ½".
The bottom of the lid gets a Masonite finisher piece that is glued on:
My '70 lacked the piece that the peg fits into, so I used a cleat which is what was original to the '69. Most find that it is better to make the cleat thicker than original so the lid doesn’t jump out and over as you lean on it getting in the car. Some vendors even sell a thicker cleat for this fix but easy enough just fashion one:
The insert that holds the ashes can be removed just by pulling it out of the body of the ash tray. The body itself is inserted from below the panel it sits in. You have to partially disassemble the console to remove it.
Thanks John, the console is out but there doesn’t seem to be any way of pulling the ashtray out. It seems to sit on top of the metal console Does the leather have to come off? I’m going to redye it so I don’t want to disturb the leather. It looks like I’m out of luck.
@skiracer I just redid the ashtray as I wrote; see below. Does the ashtray sit under the ply or is it sandwiched between the ply and the ‘Y’ piece? And how is it attached, rivets, screwed, something else?
On mine it was under the plywood, trapped there once that piece was mounted to the sheet metal base.
No rivets, screws or other attachments used or needed as far as I could tell.
One thing you might do is glue a square of leather or vinyl on the top of the metal base where the ashtray will end up sitting - that way when you remove the inside of the ashtray you are looking at a finished surface and not bare metal.
What Geo^^^ said. Under the plywood. I did use a small router to remove a layer of the plywood so that the bottom of the ash tray was flush with the plywood so it would sit on the console better.
Thank to all. I decided to just tape around it. In order to get it out, I would have had to disturb the leather and since I’m going to redye it that wouldn’t be a good idea.
Can anyone provide the thickness for the foam in the cubby lid? Will post pics of the timber phase MkII shortly (Mk I was a bit short I now relalise-doh!)
Cheers
Jacko
@REBUILD61OTS Thanks Danny.
Finished making cubby lid MkII this afternoon. Was a bit quicker than MkI and so used the time saved to make the seat base corner sections out of 3mm MDF.
