Our seatbox and tool locker
The Sonoma tool locker:
The original plan:
Strip all parts off seat box.
clean, prime and paint seat frames
clean underside of seat box
apply Powerfoam for sound deadening underneath
apply closed cell foam & limp mass vinyl for additional sound deadening on top
The detour in the plan:
The new chassis does not have a battery tray in the engine compartment so we will mount the battery in the tool locker under the passenger seat. The problem is, the battery tray in our seat box does not have the battery tray in it. However, the Sonoma 109 seat box does. After seeing that the underside of the Sonoma seat box had been sprayed with some sort of tarlike undercoating, I decided to just swap the tool locker. In about 30 minutes the rivets holding both tool lockers to their seat boxes were drilled out. In addition to the undercoating, the Sonoma tool locker was also pretty rusty inside. After about 90 minutes, I had removed all of the undercoating and all of the loose rust from the interior and it was ready for primer and paint. Then it will be riveted back into our original seat box and the plan will be back on track.
Here is the pile of crud that came off the seat box and tool locker:
This is the tool locker after it had been wire-brushed, primered and with the beginning coat of paint:
Here is the final product ready for reinstallation:
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