Good evening,
I thought I was on ALLPAR already but apparently not. I've been on SRTForums for a long long time, I have a 2005 SRT-4 CE 069/200, pristine condition.
In 2018 a Dream Cruiser 4 showed up on the local county sheriff's impound auction. I got it for 750 dollars, front end damage, air bags blown. I ended up buying a "donor car", a 4 door PT Touring with the turbo engine, but it has a lot of rust and the owner thought the timing belt had gone out (500 dollars).
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Got caught up in other projects, and this got set aside. I finally started on it last friday, my daughter will be 16 in August. Unfortunately, the very next day I got taken out by a drunk driver at 3:30 in the afternoon.
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2014 Ecodiesel, loaded, insurance has totaled it out. Now I'm scrambling to get this car done as fast as I can so I'm not forced to go in and try to find a vehicle at a dealer, I want to be able to take my time and get a 21-22' ecodiesel at MY price range. That's hard to do if you have to have a vehicle. I'm in a rental ram right now (in the picture below), but obviously I can't be in it forever.
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This is my "office" at the family farm
So far I've pulled the fender and all of the other busted up parts off of the convertible. I then removed a bunch of pieces off the front of the donor car to get to the intercooer, radiator, condenser, and (I think?) power steering fluid cooler. I wired them all into place, minus the intercooler, just to make sure the engine and transmission all work. They seem to.
But... this thing has some goofy front seatbelts. When the airbags blew, it locked the seatbelts with some sort of blasting mechanism, so I need to remove them. That's where I'm stuck.
I was going to just install the belts out of the donor car just to get by, I removed those first. Easy peasy, top anchor, bottom anchor, pop the driver's plastic sill, pop the middle pillar plastic, unscrew the retractor torx, remove the standard wire plug, then the wonky one (I assume that's the "crash" charge), and I was done.
The freaking convertible... I am guessing after getting started that you have to take the entire interior to pieces, as in, take out both back seats, the upper assembly, the door sills, the plastic bottom pieces on the overhead rollover bar, and God knows what else just to take out the plastic "tub" piece on either side to uncover the retractor assembly.
My other issue... is there a way to reuse the convertible's upper anchor point with the plastic cover? The ones on sale online appear to just be the retractor with the belt all wrapped around, I don't see the upper anchor points attached, is there a way to "thread" a new belt (new meaning used but not "exploded" in a wreck)?
I have so much work to do, we have to get the frame straightened and the front driver's metal attachment curtain that sits right by the radiator is all crumpled to hell too.
I thought I was on ALLPAR already but apparently not. I've been on SRTForums for a long long time, I have a 2005 SRT-4 CE 069/200, pristine condition.
In 2018 a Dream Cruiser 4 showed up on the local county sheriff's impound auction. I got it for 750 dollars, front end damage, air bags blown. I ended up buying a "donor car", a 4 door PT Touring with the turbo engine, but it has a lot of rust and the owner thought the timing belt had gone out (500 dollars).
Got caught up in other projects, and this got set aside. I finally started on it last friday, my daughter will be 16 in August. Unfortunately, the very next day I got taken out by a drunk driver at 3:30 in the afternoon.
2014 Ecodiesel, loaded, insurance has totaled it out. Now I'm scrambling to get this car done as fast as I can so I'm not forced to go in and try to find a vehicle at a dealer, I want to be able to take my time and get a 21-22' ecodiesel at MY price range. That's hard to do if you have to have a vehicle. I'm in a rental ram right now (in the picture below), but obviously I can't be in it forever.
This is my "office" at the family farm
So far I've pulled the fender and all of the other busted up parts off of the convertible. I then removed a bunch of pieces off the front of the donor car to get to the intercooer, radiator, condenser, and (I think?) power steering fluid cooler. I wired them all into place, minus the intercooler, just to make sure the engine and transmission all work. They seem to.
But... this thing has some goofy front seatbelts. When the airbags blew, it locked the seatbelts with some sort of blasting mechanism, so I need to remove them. That's where I'm stuck.
I was going to just install the belts out of the donor car just to get by, I removed those first. Easy peasy, top anchor, bottom anchor, pop the driver's plastic sill, pop the middle pillar plastic, unscrew the retractor torx, remove the standard wire plug, then the wonky one (I assume that's the "crash" charge), and I was done.
The freaking convertible... I am guessing after getting started that you have to take the entire interior to pieces, as in, take out both back seats, the upper assembly, the door sills, the plastic bottom pieces on the overhead rollover bar, and God knows what else just to take out the plastic "tub" piece on either side to uncover the retractor assembly.
My other issue... is there a way to reuse the convertible's upper anchor point with the plastic cover? The ones on sale online appear to just be the retractor with the belt all wrapped around, I don't see the upper anchor points attached, is there a way to "thread" a new belt (new meaning used but not "exploded" in a wreck)?
I have so much work to do, we have to get the frame straightened and the front driver's metal attachment curtain that sits right by the radiator is all crumpled to hell too.
