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Boom. It's so comfortable. I'll just sleep here tonight. I wouldn't recommend it. It's kind of hot out in the garage.

Hi guys, I'm Sam. And I'm Nate. And we have seat upholstery. We've got a headliner. We've got padding, a bunch of bits and bobs. Uh, we're still working on that oil temperature gauge. I've tried two different gauges, three different sending units. Nothing's working yet on that Smith's oil temperature gauge. I have a VDO gauge. The VDO gauge is doing the job properly. Nathan's pulling out the battery so we can pull out our roll cage. Uh, right now Nathan wants to get seat upholstery done. Right, Nathan? Cuz then we can have more people in the car.

That's a good call. Yep. And like take it to church. Nathan's finally used to working in the garage in the heat. Why, Nathan? Cuz, um, converting that old car into a go kart. You found that down the street sitting on the side of the road, took some of the money from your 3D printing engine blockoff plates and bought that engine. Went to Kyle's, ticked up a wheel with a throttle cuz why not?

So, we're going to keep working on this out here in the heat. Roll cage fits with the rear seat crossbar. I was going to weld a tab here and then have it bolt into the body, but then I realized if there was something sticking out here, I couldn't pull the roll cage forward. So, guess what? Roll cage is going to sit loose. I'll probably just stuck some rubber pads in between here and the headliner, and that will keep the roll cage from rattling around. Not to mention, the headliner is going to be padded. That'll help some of that kink clunk when we were off-roading as well.

Now that that's done, Nathan is going to clean up the garage. I'm going to give him a hand here in a moment. The garage is a bloody mess. And you guys might notice that the sand rail is in the garage. Nathan, why is the sand rail in the garage? Because fuel injection is cool. And it's better inside and outside. Fuel injection is cool.

I've got the last piece of the puzzle from the dub shop. This is a cam sink, which I think this will work, but we'll get there. This one looks way cooler. Absolutely. We have all the carbureted stuff pulled off the engine. We actually have four individual throttle bodies. So, here—cam position sensor, crank position sensor, fuel injectors, throttle position sensor, smart logic coil, all sorts of things to try and make fuel injection happen. And all totaled, I think we'll be into this for less than $1,500, if that. We'll see what the eventual total is, but that's for another day. On to cleaning up the workbench. The garage is cleaned up a whole heck of a lot better than us.

It's so funny. I was wondering what those pliers were in there. Yeah. Yeah. Like really just today. Yeah. Get over here, buddy. We sell this in six yards. It's inexpensive enough. So, we're going to have lots of extra. So, what you're going to do, wrap it. This is stuff that makes s one, two, and then three. So right here. And what's the point of this stuff? Just so the sitting directly on top of this. Exactly. So the foam isn’t sitting directly on top of the springs.

So it just goes on the top then. Yep. So this is what was done on the 67 and every Bug I’ve ever reupholstered. You probably didn't reupholster your 72, did you? My 72, the red one. Yeah, the first one. Yeah, I did. I did that 1310 and 74 Sand tweed. So basically what I kind of wanted to do, which we are. Well, that's why cuz the oldest memory I can think of is in that 72 driving room with the tan. Yep. Nothing particularly fancy here. Just covering the springs. All done. Sweet.

This—open that 43-1119 rear seat pad box. What does it look like? The JBug box. The big JBug box. That way I'm not blowing spray. Like I thought we were doing black interior. My lungs together. Use some well-ventilated area. As hot as it is, this stuff's pretty tappy already. Grab that corner. Hold it up. Start in the front. Get that front corner set. Yep. Make sure that that fits the seat frame tight there. Perfect. Yep. That is the Volkswagen seat.

Now you can grab your upholstery. See, this is the first seat I've ever upholstered. This is the back rest. That's the box. And here's our upholstery. Wow. Looks cool. Black oxen vinyl, black suede, 12-in insert. What do you think, Nate? Uh, it looks kind of like the front seats. That's kind of what the plan was. That's good. It's kind of like a stretch over the things. It takes some time and maneuvering. And I should have sprayed it down with some silicone, but it's fine.

You know silicone. So do we have to stretch it all the way down to the bottom frame and then clip it too, wraps it around that seam on that edge. Wow. That's crazy. Are these just cool? Are you cool? Yep. Hold up. We got hogs in here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here, here, and here. And it goes around the string through there. Before we do that, let's check fit up top. That's our most important thing. Straight there, that front edge set, then we can start pulling the back, trying to clean all this. Yeah.

Once we get that front edge set, then we can start working on everything else. So, again, all those ones. Yep. Yep. Like that. I remember this one when I was you do anything about 67, that guy. Can't wait to sit on that seat. I got some spikies right there. Back pair of pliers and—oh yeah. I remember the spiky thingies that you have to. I'm sure eventually all the creases and stuff will go away. We're going to go that seam right there. I guess this is the back over gently.

All right. See, it's actually not that hard to upholster a seat. It's a little bit more difficult than sliding a pillowcase over a pillow. Slide these things down here in some sort of whatever the heck knot you want to do. See how that looks. It looks like a seat, dude. It looks like a seat. Don't say nice to right there. When we get to this particular teach—and I am, uh, by no means an expert in knots, so I just tie them in a bunch of like random knots until it does not slip. So far, done this entire restoration at home.

Huh. The only thing that we haven't done here and that we can't do here is the transmission. All right. Ready, set. There we go. It's Volkswagen seat. It's Volkswagen seat. Okay. Now, let's go grab the other one. All right. Grab the other seat. Nathan, what do you think? That is really close. That is like perfect. You happy with that combo? Yeah. All right, buddy. Now we get to do car installation. The back rest. Back rest, but then car installation. Okay, sure. Why not? All right, let's get to the back rest.

This seat is literally like a couch. Right now, we got to pull that nail apart so we can pull all the spring apart. But notice how it goes together. Spring wraps around here, coils that way, and around that nail. You got to pull that nail out. See how it's just a little bit of tension. The other side just like that. Pull that out. Pull that out. Those things are too simple. Like what the heck? I thought this was going to be hard.

Wild burlap just like you did before. So, now that we got this set down on there, now we got to straighten every single one of these tabs. Grab another pair of pliers down here. All right. And you have a headliner bow. Take a long metal rod. Should be around there somewhere. Take a headliner bow/holstery reinforcement. That's going to need to be this length right here. Just take some time to cut stuff. Yeah, super strong. You know, we'll do it for sure. No need for safety glasses. Got my glasses right here.

This just tucks in this seam. Come on. Do it. We can pass this over here. Yeah. So, like for interior stuff, is it all like pretty much custom stuff or is there like presets and stuff? There's preset stuff like black basket, black basket, etc., etc. Yep. Make sure that we are evenly gipped. We want about like this. So, and let's come around this couple spikes over the whole. Yay. All right. Bend it up. Where is it? All right.

All right. This time we're going to use some silicone spray. This just helps the upholstery slide over the foam so we can stretch it into place, especially in the corners, those corners over the top too. That—pop that inside like that. Chicken side. Good. Once we get that stuff in that top corner, make sure that the bottom we get our seams straight. Oh yeah. So, do you just sew that together to help you stretch it a lot? Sometimes like really hard.

And then you hammer those out first or put these on the side first? Before we do that, we're check the alignment in the front. Make sure. Sure. There we go. Other than the sides got stuck in there. Well, Dad, your seat for my car. Not too shabby. You already got this one, right? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I think that one of the tools you need is your hand around. So there, the screw hole right here. Claire, say hi. Hi everybody. Hi. I know you said hydrating, but I heard hi to everybody.

Now, here's the fun part. I'm going to stretch. I'm not—just pull it straight back across that, like that. Then the fun part is these bottom guys. Might never totally get these things perfect every time, but I get them well enough anyway. Bottom rolls up and over top. Just cover that seam there. So come through and just cut from the bottom all the way over that bottom lip on that hook. Get that bottom, work your way down. Try to get that down underneath that stretch, underneath that one there.

Oh, this is that box, the thing that goes over here. We can at least get the in over there. Just finish these guys off a nice little round way. Roll it up and over. Roll it up and over. Yeah. So, so you do the top first thing.

There we go. You did the upholstery, buddy. Gorgeous. Nice. Well done, buddy. Grab that bottom. Put it up here. Wow. That is a rear seat for my car. That's pretty much it for today. Yeah, cuz until I get the metal bar across the top, I can't drill the holes on the main night board. We don't want the rear seat. Masonite board, the holes for that. In the meantime, in between time, I'm going to pull Nathan's car in and then we'll throw this seat in there. Yay. Temporarily, of course.

The orange is so much more vibrant on camera. It's crazy. Yeah. Go stick that thing back in there. Remember, you got to go on top of that little metal post on that side on the hinge and then put that bolt on this side. That is what I was thinking. All right. Perfect. There we go. All right. Perfecto. So, it's the top hole. Oh, I guess it doesn't matter for now. I say we forgot to put the rear, uh, the rear crossbar in place. What in the on earth are you doing? I'm getting back here.

Not that crossbar. The seat release catch bar. But we can do that later. It's fine. That's not the way I would have done it, but okay. Oh, apparently it's even too hot for the iPhone. All right, here we go. Why don't you come over on this side and tighten that bolt down? Good thing I've got the thingy to grab onto. That looks amazing. This—this was the first seat I ever sat on in this car. I'm going to fold it forward and boom.

I guess we're never going to be able to go perfectly flat because the roll cage, but whatever. Uh, it's not like I'm using this thing to haul stuff. True that. Going to haul stuff around, I wouldn't bought a truck. All right, bottom. We haven't painted the rear seat crossbar, but we'll get there. We haven't painted most of the interior. That's just going to be covered up either. This ought to be a fun one. See if you can figure out how to do this one. Not the way I would do it, but okay.

What's the way that might work? Well, I would put them in bottom end first, but all right. There you go. Make sure. Hey, you need to be up and over the crossbar in the front. There we go. All right. Now, push the back in bottom at the back. All the way across both sides. Boom. It's so comfortable. I'll just sleep here tonight. I wouldn't recommend it. It's kind of hot out in the garage. I would have though. And off time.

You like it? Yeah. I love it. I think this is going to do it for tonight. Um, we'll be back tomorrow. Got more things to do. I think new steering wheel perhaps. Dome light. Getting some things ready for the headliner. We'll see what happens. It's 100° outside. Look at that. Some Gorilla Gorilla Spray easily. Matches the book. Oh, yeah. Look at that rear seat back there. A little bit more complete and quieter, too. Way quieter. A lot quieter. Honestly, with, uh, this—just the fans going, it's actually not horrible. It's actually pretty nice.

It's, it's 100°. I've got our Bentw, the window closed. I've got a little bit of perspiration on the forehead. I ain't going to lie. It's not cold, but it's livable. Yeah. Well, we don't need a full AC system. We're still going to do full AC, but most importantly is we finally, finally have some movement on this gauge. 60° C. Now that we have a smaller steering wheel and it's flat, we can actually see our tachometer, so that's more helpful. Can't see the oil pressure gauge as much. And this is about my exact view from the driver's seat.

The smaller steering wheel with the flatter spokes definitely helps. Fuel gauge is correct. Speedometer. We've got that running. Volt meter, it's actually—we're putting out 14 something rather. It just reads it as 13. So, it's not horrible, but—so, that's our oil temperature. This thing's running actually really cool. All right, we'll just call it like 160. That was reading about 60° C, thereabouts. Maybe 60. I don't know. I think that's, I think that Smith's gauge is reading really low. What do you think?

I don't know. I think the Smith's gauge is reading a little bit low, so I'm still not confident in that as of yet, but I will keep you guys posted. In the meantime, after Nathan got the interior all assembled last night, reassembled with seat belts and everything else, and he likes to put things together and pull things apart. Guess what you get to do now? Take it all apart again. Take it all apart again. Why? For fun and not for fun, but so we can do the headliner. All right. Then it'll look nice in here. So, we're going to get to working on that. We will catch you guys in a bit.