New Project + Interior Restoration! 

Thanks man! All of this means a lot!

❤

It's okay my bro. John's last gift to me was a gift to all of you. It means even more to me now to complete his wish.

We all get to enjoy this! As was his intent. This was his way of giving it to all of us.

I know! It's weird init!? This job lived inside my brain and on my shelves for ages and it's good to finally have all of it sorted x2 before the parts collection grew any larger. I cleared up a whole lot of space and now I look forward to passing on all the stuff I cleaned up that I didn't use. I even found a good home for my Evo seat! But now I get to return to the mechanical world for all of December! Beginning with 2 days of cleaning up bolts on a bench grinder of course. I love my hands, but they absolutely hate me.

I don't know how Toyota/Lexus leather even qualifies as leather? It's so delicate! That coating damages so easily with heat that you're better off just cleaning and refinishing it. That's why I left the warning. Like you said, the hide on this car is thick! But it does create more maintenance.

All you need to be is younger than me, and you have two more chances! :P

A lot of time has passed since the ozone treatment, and if I could do it all over again, I wouldn't. It accelerates the oxidation of everything including the plastic. Of course almost nothing plastic or leather was good to begin with, it had all already faded... but the seat I treated that you're referring to was this passenger-side replacement that I restored in this video. It got a lot softer than the driver's side over the years that followed. For years I was testing the results of different methods, and this was what I came up with. 1229's interior did clean up, but it actually rolled downhill faster after the ozone treatment. Hard foam got even harder, leather shrunk more, more fading. All the door lock pulls I had left broke off. I can't blame it for all of that but it certainly didn't help.

I think you can do that with your cell phone now? I have a 3D scanner at work, it's a PITA to use, slow, and requires post processing... but students are coming in with stuff they scanned with their phone. Remember some phones have LIDAR. Not mine. Just some.

@@Jafromobile Any Pro iPhone after the 12th one and any iPad Pro after 2020 has a LiDAR sensor, they aren't very accurate for smaller parts like the seatbelt button though.

All correct! The jute's gone, but I'm saving it to use as templates for the replacement. That's actually the *only* thing inside the car that the mice were after or affected. The interior fabric I was referring to sending to the extractor is just the rear deck lid cover (if I don't clean that one myself), carpet, trunk liners, and the headliner. Rreplacing any of the seat padding or fabric requires completely de-stitching and re-stitching the entire seat, and that goes beyond where I'm willing to go because they really aren't all that bad... but the rusty seat frames might just still be bothering me enough to go back in there again. Why doesn't the factory paint ANY of that steel? It's not just Mitsubishi, nobody does it.

I have 17 of them now along with physical copies of everything Neil has recorded. Gaster is a national treasure. The whole outfit. None of them are virtuosos; the rough edges make that band exactly what it's supposed to be, and it's perfect. Same goes for Lionize which is also on Weathermaker Records. And yes, I will unapologetically rock on!

Thanks man! It's all those little skills that you didn't perfect added together that enable you to build that idea you imagined. Few of us can perfect all of the skills to the point of being professional. All of my other sewing ventures mentioned occurred in private schools and summer camp. I was judged for these events in my life by someone half my age recently. Those things were referred to me as "points of privilege". I grew up poor. My mom made my clothes. She is great at sewing. That's how I figured a sewing machine out or knew what a bobbin was. She worked a full time job, participated in medical experiments and even donated blood just to buy us groceries and keep a roof over our heads. For the years when I wasn't in public schools, my tuition was mostly paid by a charity that my mother begged for help from. The idea that these events are all somehow points of privilege come from people who are already too privileged and blind to even recognize the situation they are currently living in. My only privilege was having a parent that was willing to go to war just so I could have a chance. Summer camp is what your parents PAY FOR in order to be able to take at least a week's vacation from YOU. And they need it. They deserve it. Thanks mom!

@@Jafromobile sadly people are too quick to make judgments about people based on limited information. Just more reason to generally treat people with respect. Thank you for sharing. As a result of this, I actually thanked my mom for teaching me sewing skills as well as many other skills that I still use today and hope to pass on to my future children. Thanks again Jafro. I always enjoy watching your videos.

There's 2 parts. A cleaner and a conditioner. The cleaner was the first step of every piece of leather. ...and I noticed the cleaner seemed to penetrate and soften the leather much faster than the conditioner, but it just continues with this conditioner. It sorta jump-starts the process. The carpets I'm not replacing will go to an extractor. I have a friend who runs a detail service. :D

Oh yeah! My neighbors here are the best!

Five!

I'm in the midst of running part numbers through an archaic emulation on a computer assembled in 1997 at the moment. It's overheating, so I have to go do something else for a while... but I do believe the fenders are actually different. If I can alter that belief after running the part numbers through CAPS, I may take you up on that. I think the trim doesn't fit it if I'm not mistaken. Yes, I want to be mistaken.

Yes!

@@Jafromobile I own the older ae101 with a 4th gen 3sgte AWD

When I lived in Atlanta in the 80's and 90's, I experienced hail storms that do this. John bought this Georgia-raised car from its first owner's auction listing online.

@@Jafromobile it’s usually cause to write the vehicle off, you’ve got your body work cut out for you. Looking forward to it!

If I don't know how to do PDR by the end of it, I'll quit RU-vid.

@@Jafromobile I enjoy watching you spend countless hours on laborious tasks I would never bother with. I wish you’d post videos more often, so I can empathize by drinking a cold one on my couch. I always learn plenty from your videos though, from porting and polishing, to the finer points of rewiring a vehicle, or the pros and cons of installing water meth. I have a project of my own, a ‘92 SC with a 1.5JZ but fortunately/unfortunately I have nowhere to work on it at this time. Water meth, ethanol, and polishing are very high on my list of things I would like to do to it. I will add PDR and body work to the list of things I would like to learn on a RU-vid journey with you. John would be quite excited to see his project take shape, I’m sure you’ll make him proud.

Like you said, except when it's AMG leather like this. Then it's right. Most "leather" interiors aren't leather, or are so processed so far they no longer resemble their original hide. The leather inside this galant is the same thing as saddle leather.

Well we all are, really. ;)

@@Jafromobile I'm going to call them meat seats from here on.