Fletch
These
are the covers that will hide the Fiero steering wheel, they came with
my CRP kit. They just slip over the stock Fiero column. |
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The top pieces
edge was not a good clean edge, so I am cleaning the mounting edge and
fixing some of the fiber glass blisters and air pockets that this cover
had.
Also the two
piece don't fit together correctly, the top half over laps the bottom
half as you can see in the photos.
You can see
the "before" and "after" photos, the wall had to be
moved 3/4" out. |
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Before
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After
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Before
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After
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On
the bottom shell the walls fold in, to fix this problem I score/cut the
sides, and pull the sides out, then fiber glass the sides. You can see
the photos below where I used the Dremel tool with a cutoff wheel to make
a dash cuts. |
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| I used a Dremel
tool to grinded down the inside wall (at my cut line) preparing for the
new fiber glass material. |
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With blocks
of wood I aligned the side walls to the correct dimension, the blocks
in the center are pushing the walls out. The blocks on the outside are
there to put some pressure on so the wall don't break off.
I am not sure
that it wouldn't be easier to just cut the walls off and glass them back,
rather then this method of trying to preserve the walls by pushing them
over. |
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| To make the
back end fit correctly I actually need to break off the side and reglassed
it back on. |
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I added fiber
glass to the inside to fix the break line that I created and when I was
done I was still off by 3/16" (not pushed out enough). I sanded down
the gel coating and added the fiberglass to the outside.
By addind the
fiberglassing material it will now give the sides a better even look.
This is a photo of the bottom cover with my layers of fiberglass.
The covers
are now aligned. |
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