I had a little bit of time on my day off to get a bit of work done. I basically started cleaning the interior and replaced the rubber piece on the brake pedal.
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This was pretty straightforward. I cleaned the muck off the metal with some simple green and snapped the rubber piece on.
I put some full strength simple green in a spray bottle and started wiping everything off. It was absolutely filthy. I went through an entire roll of paper towels. It looks a lot better now. I will take some pictures when I can. All of them came out really bad because it was insanely bright outside.
The dash piece on the passenger side that houses one of the air vents was cracked where it fastens in. I'm going to attempt to fix it. The glove compartment is also missing the plastic post hinge on one side, and is snapped on the other side. This is why its falling out when its opened up. Since the right side post is missing, I don't know what I'm going to do about it yet.
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Later in the evening, I went to Home Depot and bought a new wet/dry vacuum. This will come in handy for a lot of things around the house, so I didn't really mind picking one up. I used my girlfriend's cordless vacuum to get a lot of the dirt and rocks up, but it wasn't cutting it. The new vacuum will definitely do the trick.
The weather seals around both doors are pretty much rotten. I'll be looking for a replacement kit to replace all of it shortly. I found some change to put towards the cause inside of part of it that was rotted out:
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Next up is cleaning the exterior and engine bay if I have enough time after work one of these nights. My hours right now are pretty awful, so it might have to wait until the weekend.
I ordered a new ignition switch and the tools to disassemble the steering column so I can tighten the tilt assembly up. They should be here just in time for the weekend. My dad is a locksmith and I've helped him replace a number of these, so I'm pretty confident that I can get this done. Hopefully the plastics inside the column arent too bad. I'm kicking around the idea of replacing the steering wheel while im at it.
I'd like to do a bit of adjustment to the doors while I have them pulled apart. The passenger side opens and shuts fine, but the drivers side is pretty hard to close. It appears that the hinge pins were replaced recently, but they are already bent. The post that the latch assembly locks onto is pretty worn out on both sides also. Its kind of hard to see, because it was so bright outside when this picture was taken, but both sides have a fairly deep groove worn into them:
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I still have to go to the DMV on one of my days off to get the title transferred into my name. This shouldn't be a big deal, but it is very time consuming to go to the DMV here in town. They just "upgraded" their system to call people to the counter by their telephone number rather than pulling a number and waiting. This sucks because you have absolutely no idea how long you're going to be waiting. I never look forward to going to the DMV, and they made it even worse.
Before this is road worthy, I am going to have to do something about the seat belts. A forum member on here sells replacement kits, and I'm just waiting for her to respond. $170 for all three, with metal buckles rather than the plastic junk in there now. I looked on ebay for replacement receivers, and it would cost around that just to replace those with used ones, so I guess that isn't too bad for new ones.
In closing, I am pretty amped about fixing this truck up, even though it isn't anything special. I'm not a great mechanic or anything, but I am really excited to be learning as I go. I had $5000 set aside to buy a truck originally, and feel that if I put that much into this, it would be a pretty sweet ride.