I didn’t have a glove box interior, and since I used an aftermarket heater, I built my own out of 18g sheet:
At this point, I started to break it down for paint. I pulled the cage and finshed welding it:
Here’s a shot of the dash I modified for the Carling switches:
My tailgate hinges looked horrid, so I decided to rebuild them. I first cut off the original hinge mount wheel thing:
I then turned a couple of axle shafts out of steel:
I cut two new wheel hinge mount bearing things out of some HMW plastic that fit over the axles:
Welded the axles in from the back and bolted the bearing mount hinged wheel things to that:
And installed. They work great. No slop and easily rebuildable if the HMW plastic ever wears out:
