So the girl says her car has been giving her problems lately. She drove out to San Antonio from Houston Friday to see the vintage championship races at Circuit of The Americas on Saturday. We switched vehicles up and she drove home in the wife's 4Runner leaving the 244 here with me and my wife reclaimed the LandCruiser.
Thursday before she drove out I walked her through swapping out the Hydras back to the steelies by photos and phone. The 2 rear hydras were bent and we're not able to run them on the front. The front end had some vibrations the last time I drove the car and it needed an alignment. Shop wasn't able to complete the alignment before she drove out due to some bad tie rod ends.
Sunday afternoon I got out the polishing compound and the 7" polisher and went to work. I got the driver side finished before I ran out of steam.
Spent most of yesterday running errands in the car. It was a quart low and the oil light was flickering on & off. Other than that it runs pretty good. Slight vibration still from the front end. Topped off the oil, but I'm going to have to change it with a new filter this weekend.
Finished polishing the other side and the hood. Only thing left is the roof. I'm not a big fan of the single stage paint. Tonight I'm going to order some vinyl wrap for the roof. Because my bike doesn't fit in her car very well without completely taking it apart and lowering the seatpost all the way I ordered a roof rack. I don't want to mess with waxing the roof with a rack on there.
The brittle and dry beltline trim has been killing me since we got the car. I've only been able to find half of the nicer 92 only trim so far, so I did the poor man's trim removal. Stopped by Pep Boys and picked up a roll of multi width striping.
I started pulling the belt line trim and replacing it with the 1/4" wide black stripe from the roll to cover the trim holes. It's cheap and effective. Plus this car will never be a show car. Almost every panel has some sort of damage especially the driver side rear quarter panel.
Used one of the narrow strips to black out the chrome trim in the tail lights.
The largest size of the stripe kit is the right size for the door handles, so instead of removing and repainting the handles only to have them chip I covered them in vinyl.
The rear bumper trim is off because I found some undamaged trim at pick n pull yesterday. I'm cleaning them up before installing. I also used the vinyl from the roll to cover the stainless bumper trim. I'll post some pictures once it's all complete later this week.
Up under the car I discovered the tie rod ends need replacing and the ball joint boots are torn. Once I identify the correct rack I'll order inner and outer tie rods and the ball joints.