Lighting up the Interior

Since its been below zero outside for quite some time I thought maybe it's time to work on the inside of my Scout.

I had discovered that the door switches on the driver and the passenger side did not work. I went down to my local autozone in found 2 door switch that will replace my current your switches. no problem with the Scout it is really easy to replace and fix pretty much anything. Took me about 5 minutes on each side to replace the switch and now when I open the door I have courtesy lights. But of course that was just not good enough for me, so I decided my Scout needed a little customizing. I decided to add LED lighting under the dash. Below is a picture of what it looks like when lit up at night.

Now that I had the LED lighting working it was time to move on to the instrument cluster. Originally the Scout had black instruments. I thought what would it look like if everything was nice and bright and white. I purchased a kit from whitegauges.com. My son Justin and I took apart instrument panel one by one we painted each needle by hand and installed the new white gauges. I really think this added to the looks of the instrument cluster.

Engine Work is complete

Well it was time to do something with the engine. Had some oil leaks so I decided to take out the engine and clean it.

After taking apart the top half I noticed how clean the inside of the beast of a 304 was. Very happy

Here the V8 304 all painted up and ready for install

Freshly installed and cleaned 

All back together and running like a top. I don't think it ran this good when it was new.

Interior work

Well this Scout Traveler was not in that bad of shape. I started sanding down the interior floors. 4 hours later I put a product called Chassis Saver down. Looks good now.

Once everything was dry (day later) I started in on the Dash. Sanding down the old painted dash. Primed and painted to a gloss finish. Currently working on the dash pad. It has 1 small crack that needs to be repaired. The current dash pad is blue so I will be changing the color of this to black.

Seats peds have been removed, sanded, primed and painted to match dash.

Now it's time to redo the Door Panels. The panel on the right is almost done. I thought it might look good with the pocket staying the original Lexington Blue color. After I finished, I didn't much care for it. It's now black.

All Patched up

Well, she's finally home. Here's what she looks like now all patched up and ready for driving.

Things I need to do now.

• Paint Top White
• Get White wheels (don't like this black ones)
• Paint Exterior with Lexington Blue

The new ShagNasty

Here's a picture of the New "ShagNasty"

Plans for this one are:

• Repair Rusted area
• ReFlex inside of Tub
• Redo Dash
• New seats
• Paint Tyrol Blue
• and....

Fuel Cell Removal

Today we decided it was time to remove the Gas Tank. I know I titled this post "Fuel Cell" I just think that sounded cooler. LOL

So after 2 hours on our backs, we were finally able to drop the tank.

Here's the old tank. It's really not in that bad of shape for being 35 years old. Can't tell you how old the gas that was in it was. 

Now that we have this tank removed, we can move on to the rockers and floor. 

The Tear down

Today after 3 months, we finally went to it. My boys, Tyler and Justin were a big help. It took 3 people to pull the doors off. Man are those things heavy.

Justin is thinking he can do this himself. Well.... not really

Here's Tyler and Justin hard at it again.









Front end all taken apart and ready for prep.