1991 Classic 350 LE

[jdalrymple]

Dave,

Ir was good to meet you in person and see your coach.

I hope we meet again!




Regards,

JD

[Isuzusweet]

Originally Posted by Kota

The short driveshaft of the rear engine generally runs smoother with less problems. Unless some idiot reassembles it out of phase!

Funny you should mention this, as Shepherd57 explained to me this past weekend what this meant.

To those that don't know what driveline "in phase" means. All U-joints in the driveline must be in line with each other. If the driveshaft is installed out of phase the driveline will bind slightly promoting wear and tear on the U-joints. To fix this just remove driveshaft and rotate what ever number of spline needed to place all U-joints inline and "in phase".

I hope I explained this correctly. Allways learning and never afraid to ask, no matter how ignorant it makes me appear.

Cheers
Tony

[wxbuoy]

Originally Posted by Isuzusweet

Funny you should mention this, as Shepherd57 explained to me this past weekend what this meant.

To those that don't know what driveline "in phase" means. All U-joints in the driveline must be in line with each other. If the driveshaft is installed out of phase the driveline will bind slightly promoting wear and tear on the U-joints. To fix this just remove driveshaft and rotate what ever number of spline needed to place all U-joints inline and "in phase".

I hope I explained this correctly. Allways learning and never afraid to ask, no matter how ignorant it makes me appear.

Cheers
Tony

This would be a good one for a picture or drawing. I was worried about this after they took my drive shaft out to to it, but never did figure out what they meant and my mechanic said it was good. Too many other issues at the time to delve deeper into it!

[Kota]

One spline out! This it the one I just rebuilt on the 94.

[wxbuoy]

Originally Posted by Kota

One spline out! This it the one I just rebuilt on the 94.

Ok that makes sense. I thought the shafts were balanced and were spun to determine phase, not just lining up the stuff.....

[streamquest]

I wish there was just one piece on my moho that looked that nice.

[wxbuoy]

Originally Posted by streamquest

I wish there was just one piece on my moho that looked that nice.

Yeah I didn't recognize the part on mine with out all the rust and stuff!


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[wxbuoy]

Took the Moho to the shop to get some work done that is beyond my abilities and patience!

I am having a car interior shop redo the pleather that covers the dash and recolor the faded plastic parts if the cab area. They are gonna redo the navigators chair as well. Was thinking of just getting new but we really like the comfort of these and no issues with fit and wiring for the adjustments.

Here she is all tucked back in one of the bays. Very tight squeeze through door with only a few inches each side. Lots off room inside doors though.


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[mayco]

Hey Dave,
I have a favor to ask, no hurry though. Would you snap a picture of your wiper blade from the side where you reattached the spray nozzle? Thanks. No hurry, whenever you get a chance.

Mike

[wxbuoy]

I think I have a picture of it on my laptop. Will check tomorrow night (ipad only now). There should be a picture of it earlier in this thread....

I actually had to replace the arms since one had the splines stripped out. Turned it on in the rain and no movement. Saw that the splines were destroyed and replaced both to avoid the other one stripping out next week! Since I was going camping didnt have time to mount new adapters to use regular wiper blades. Have a set if RV blades and will put the adapters on when time to change blades.


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[mayco]

Ya I looked through the pics you had posted, thank you very much for those, but there wasnt one from the nozzle side of the wiper. I was gonna pull mine off today and start prepping for paint and was looking at that spray nozzle. Was just wondering how it ended up mounting to the new wiper arm. Thanks again

Mike

[mayco]

Once I started using this Ipad I think Ive forgotten how to navigate on my laptop!!

[gaiaenviro]

I just redid mine last weekend with the Trico adapters and ended up riveting the sprayer to the top of the adapter perpendicular to the original mount (horizontal vs vertical). I also rotated 90 degrees to get the spray where it seemed valuable (although not moving its tough to tell). I Hope this is some help....


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[wxbuoy]

Mine had clips attached to it and I just clipped it back on the arm.

[mayco]

Thanks fellas

[gaiaenviro]

for what it's worth, here's how mine turned out....


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[mayco]

Thats what I was looking for.

[wxbuoy]

Finally made it to the top of the queue at the custom upholstery shop. They all the ild stuff out and are redoing all the old nasty pleather and passenger side seat. The first 2 pics shows the carpet in (over more sound proofing). The last pic is the plastic moldings between the front and side windows. It cost the same to repaint as cover with new vinyl. Choose the vinyl. Another day or too to finish the dash, side panels and passenger seat. I am so glad I left that part up to the professionals!!


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[Keyair]

Looking GOOD!

Want to see many more pics of the parts in detail and assembled.
The side trims in particular!

I know I have not been working on my Airstream, but I have retrimmed the Range Rover roof and pillar trims, that were horrible...
As a reference and maybe inspiration..

The roof foam/glue was toast and the material just fell down...



Retrimmed..


The pillar trims were originally "Flocked", and the glue had broken down leaving them looking like this...



I retrimmed them with the same roof material, but it was tricky to get it into the seatbelt height adjusters, but it looks good, and was an improvement!



More pics of your progress....
Are you replacing the dash top? If so I want to see!

[wxbuoy]

Key,

You work always looks top notch!

He is gonna recover the entire dash.. It was only covered about 5 inches down from the front the rest was discolored plastic to the front windshield He didn't like the way paint looked so he is doing the pseudo leather all the way. He is gonna pop some new speakers in the front as well since he is making everything new. He also decided that the carpet just wasn't going to look good on the engine cover. He pointed out that while we were both in there the two time I brought it down to look at we both sat on the engine cover. He is going to redo that in the same fabric/padding that the seats are done in so it will be like a bench seat. Since we only have the two euro recliners in there now I thought that was a brilliant way to get more seating in there.

He has taken lots of pics through out the process to document everything. He does a lot of custom classic cars and know that proper documentation is needed for resale value.