This will be the last update before the new year. Hopefully, I'll have some serious progress to show then.
This week, for some reason, I forgot to take any pictures of what I spent most of the time working on... which was getting the seat to fit.
The seat had been in my computer room here in the city for almost 4 years. I figured it was going to drop right into the truck, since it came out of an 83-88 Ranger.
WRONG, apparently the floor pans are different on 83-88 vs 89-92 despite the cabs appearing to be the same. I set the seat in, and the rear mounts were about 2 inches out, while the fronts were about 30 degrees wrong angle, and 3 inches narrower. So, not even close.
The rear was easy enough to deal with, just drill new holes in the floors. Luckily, it avoided any of the under-floor braces. In the front, I cut off the front part of the seat track, and made a bolt on piece to adapt to the original threaded holes in the floor. Once the carpet is in, they'll not be noticeable. After that, the seat fit well. It really tucked in to the cab nicely.
The seat back looked like ass, all faded and chipped so I dealt with that as well. I redid the seat back, and attached it with new clips.
This seemed like a fun time to install the headliner, so it went in with the visors.
After playing around with the interior parts, I put the rear shocks on. I put on KYB's just because they are silver and match the appearance of my drag shocks up front. Yes, I am that lame. "I like the color". I figured they must be decent, my KX500 has all KYB suspension. That reminds me, I need to change fork seals on that bike. Uh oh.