Decided to stop dragging my feet on this and get some ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- done.
First I reprimed the insides, then I found a better way to mount the wheel. I used to have the wheel on a shelf and the wheel sticking through the whole in the front. Little back story to that, I had to cut a line from the top to the hole then pry the metal apart and slide the wheel in, good times. When the wheel was on the shelf it worked but it didnt leave much finger room between the shelf and the shroud. Well I eliminated the shelf and I put screws in the wheel housing from the front of the metal CP. Then I JB Welded a blank outlet cover plate behind the control panel, then filled the gap in with JB weld. Ghetto as hell, but it works and its behind the scenes, and has much better finger clearance all around.
Reprimed:
Computer in, and wires tidy:
Yes, thats a tiny speaker inside, Im waiting to grab 2 new 6x9s for the inside.
Next Ghetto-ness, the shifter. When I got the shifter from UncleT everything was fine, it was either in storage or my first attempt to mount this thing that I broke 2 cherry switches. I couldnt find 2 replacement switches, they are oddly small, so I hacked them, kinda. I basically mounted 2 regular joystick cherries:
then I just decided to just replace the 2 working ones with 2 more regular sized cherries, so all 4 gears felt the same:
Then I mounted the shifter to the control panel , I had to drill 4 bigger holes but in a pinch this could still be converted back to a PP if for some odd reason I ever wanted to. Once the wheel was secure, and the shifter was bolted in, I mounted it to the machine, and ran the shifter wires to the Zero Delay encoder that was originally used for just the camera buttons.
you can see the blank plate in all its ghetto glory!
Re-added the blue cold cathode behind the pedals for the glow:
Cruisn World for no apparent reason:
You cant really see in the cab, but the back door being off and the flash makes it look like you can. That's where the 6x9 is going to go.
I also installed all the locks (keyed the same) and the only things left do do are the front end set up and wiring in 2 new 6x9s