I have been busy of late. I moved the battery back into its rightful place in the engine bay. Dug up all the original wires in the centre of the dash and now have a working cigarette lighter and radio. Yep, my original hitachi radio works, but I have bypassed it and have a pioneer radio in my glove box. So it lights up at night when the headlights are on and the green reception light comes on when I have a signal, but my noise comes from the pioneer unit.
I redid my roof lining, and I promise it will never ever sag. I cut a piece of 1ply to shape and builders glued the vinyl to it. So now the timber base can be removed but the vinyl trim wont sag from it. Looks better than new!
I also started building the speaker spaces. 7x10s in the tool boxes, tweeters in the roof lining above the sun visors and 6 inchs in the factory locals. The only visible speakers are the 7x10s and even they are not intrusive.
Also got my new diamond patterned vinyl for the transmission tunnel and that has really finished of the look of the interior bar one thing. Time to replace the carpet for OEM black.
one bad thing though. I never realised how thin the Jtin really was. So easy to pin dent the roof... now I need to go to the panel shop for a roof repair.
Pictures to come.