GLOCKer
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- April 30, 2018
- Messages
- 549
- Reaction score
- 128
- Location
- ATL Area
- City, State
- Marietta, GA
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1998 Explorer Limited
Last night, after a LONG and HOT day at work, I started working on the driver door. I began with the driver side mirror, and ran into issues. The plug for the replacement mirror was smaller than the mirror on my Explorer Limited because the replacement isn't heated and didn't have a puddle-light. I rolled the dice, and spliced the new mirror onto the old plug, matching up the red, yellow, and blue wires and discarded the remaining black wires. It didn't work. I guess I should just be happy I have a mirror I can manually adjust.
Next I set to looking at the locking mechanism on that door. I determined that the interior handle is broken as is the exterior handle. I ordered replacements for both as well as a clip kit for the connecting linkages with the rest of my Amazon credit. Today I went and purchased a $5 rivet kit with an assortment of rivets included. I'm really hoping to be able to keep the lock actuator. Wish me luck with this.
Then I popped the hood, propped it with a baseball bat, and changed out the hood struts. The old ones were leaking pretty bad, but now my hood stays up on its own! With the hood staying up properly, I decided to take off the front wind deflector thing and clean the junk out from under it. It was pretty nasty and the dirt was actually pretty thick. It degraded the paint a little in spots, so I'll probably sand those small spots down to clean metal and hit it with some touch-up paint, and then put the deflector thing back on to hide it.
I also picked up a couple of cheap'o compounding, polishing, and waxing pads from HF for my DA buffer. But I'm not going to start worrying too awfully much about the exterior until I clean up the interior enough to not fear getting a disease from it!
Next I set to looking at the locking mechanism on that door. I determined that the interior handle is broken as is the exterior handle. I ordered replacements for both as well as a clip kit for the connecting linkages with the rest of my Amazon credit. Today I went and purchased a $5 rivet kit with an assortment of rivets included. I'm really hoping to be able to keep the lock actuator. Wish me luck with this.
Then I popped the hood, propped it with a baseball bat, and changed out the hood struts. The old ones were leaking pretty bad, but now my hood stays up on its own! With the hood staying up properly, I decided to take off the front wind deflector thing and clean the junk out from under it. It was pretty nasty and the dirt was actually pretty thick. It degraded the paint a little in spots, so I'll probably sand those small spots down to clean metal and hit it with some touch-up paint, and then put the deflector thing back on to hide it.
I also picked up a couple of cheap'o compounding, polishing, and waxing pads from HF for my DA buffer. But I'm not going to start worrying too awfully much about the exterior until I clean up the interior enough to not fear getting a disease from it!