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[EunUCh]

Hopefully it is solved?..if so...good, but it will mean picking up the toys that were tossed out of the cot,not mention the dings in the garage wall that now need fixing and finding the tools that used to be in the toolbox but got caught up in the catcher of the mower...sorry just spinning shiyt....    

[Tyre biter]

Plentry of chauffers to be found at TF Bomber

You need to chase down accommodation mate - things might be getting a tad tight in terms of options.

 

I got the heater box out yesterday afternoon and voila, installed the wrong way up!

Hope the get it back in this week sometime after work and in between running kids to scouts, footy, basketball, optometrist appointments, swimming, etc...

 

Cheers, TB

[Pop's-SS]

G'day TB

 

This is what I have done to mine and the missus's consoles

 

 

Lay the console on its side with masking tape on the OUTSIDE and fibreglass the inside around the joining seams

 I think by memory that I put 4 or more layers of glass on it

 

The masking tape will stop any excess resin from leaking outside

 

Also with the joining struts on the inside, fibreglass around them, this will make it heavier but will also be a bloody lot stronger

 

Doesnt' matter what it looks like on the inside 'cause it is the strength in it that you want and as said before, they all become brittle

 

I had a bit more confidence in fitting ours once I had strenghtened them up

 

Barry

[slar]

Just a question on this topic about the spacer behind the heater box......Im putting a hatch console in my sedan.....its actually out of a sunbudgie but the same thing.

I just checked my heater box and it doesn't have that plastic spacer as pictured above and it looks like it never did as it still has the original sealing foam glued to the firewall mounting face on the heater box.

 

Question...do you guys think this spacer may have only been used on hatches due to the under dash console....allowing more clearance for it or was it common to all LH and LX Toranas...4 door and hatch.

 

Just checked my dismantle pictures and that spacer was definitely not there from original on my LX 4 door.

cheers

Al

[hanra]

My LH has one.

[EunUCh]

UC has one as well...as per picture...

[slar]

My LH has one.

 

UC has one as well...as per picture...

Mmmm I seem to have a little mystery......I thought I had all relevant parts to reassemble my interior and this throws a spanner in the works as Im about 2 days away from installing the heater box.

So what to do now......I havent got that spacer and I think it might take a while to find one.

[Tyre biter]

Gasket turned around and voila - slides in easy-peasy

Why this wedge isn't built-in to the heater box I am not sure - heck knows...

Why the heater box studs aren't arranged in a way where it can only go one way and so you can't cock it up as I did is also beyond me.

Anyways, it is what it is, and thanks to all I was able to sort it out - thank you.

 

 

AL(slar),

You may well be able to knock something up - you have the reference point for it to frame the heater box, it is about depth now.

EunUCh said it was about 2.5mm thick and the wedge seems another 3mm on that starting half way along the side.

The OEM part had the wedge as a rib but I saw nothing to suggests it needs be like that.

If you have some plastic or maybe even one of those white chopping boards to cut left and right dimensions and then a saw which can cut it width wise, you could then may use a chisel to shape the wedge and get yourself out of trouble.

 

Barry,

Thanks for the suggestion.

The plastic has come through unscathed and so fingers crossed I need not resort to your suggestion.

I appreciate your input nonetheless.

 

Cheers, TB

[slar]

Thanks TB....i will check it out on the weekend and see what needs to be done.....good suggestion.