Alright, I've got the bodies back and the reconstruction has begun!
But first, a note.
If you look carefully at the "before" photos, you'll see that one of the machines has this really gross box welded on by the coin box for a lockbar. Solution? Angle grinder.
Buuuuut the results really weren't very pretty.
In comes Alvin's Lab Metal. Basically aluminum putty that acts as a filler and can be powder coated.
This was my first time using it, and I'm really impressed. You can hardly tell that the lip was all goobered
Started by attaching the basics, topper, bezel, etc.-
And screwed in the handmade bracket I made, fits pretty dang well!
In that picture you can see that I also went ahead and resleeved the built in tie downs. My strategy was just heat shrink cut to length and warmed up with a lighter.
Now that I've got the harness in, I'm realizing that I don't have quite as much wire as I thought.
Would anyone with factory wiring in their aero mind snapping a couple pics so I can see how things are laid out inside?