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Restoration of HLS30-12070


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The original console was structurally in good shape, but sun baked causing the textured finished to crack. Since there aren’t many of these floating around I decided to restore it. 
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I first sanded down the textured finish where it was damaged and used body filler to fill in the deeper hairline cracks. 

This was then top coated with a quality high build primer, and then sanded down to perfect the surface. 

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SEM sells a great interior/exterior textured coating. Very lightly applying it, a thin texture was sprayed where the original had been removed. 

Finally it was top coated with a trim paint from SEM. 
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Very happy with the results. If you look at the closeup finished photo, the flat area of the console behind the shifter opening received no textured finish and was left untouched apart from the primer and top coat. It now blends seamlessly with the new texture on the sidewalls of the console. 

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Last photo is of the SEM products used to do this. Give it a go before buying a repop!

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14 minutes ago, grannyknot said:

Beautiful as usual, could you share the details on the steering rod Ujoints?

Here’s some more info on them:

 

ATV700 is the PN. You can pick them up on Amazon, eBay, etc today. They’re an affordable and direct swap into the Z!

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