Like many others I'm working on my list of winter projects while the weather is messy. Just about the time I think my "To Do List" on Miss Purdy and Lady in Red is gradually coming under control one or the other decides they are not getting enough attention. After replacing the tie rods and having their front ends aligned I started on Miss Purdy's HVAC temp control motor. The resistor temp sensing string is reading fine but I found a transistor on the motor driver circuit board has failed. At least it is just a cheap generic Radio Shack 327.
Next up on the list was going to be a front to rear speaker upgrade and naturally I managed to break the speaker grill retaining ring on one of the small 3.5" door speakers. I was thinking of using a couple of Kenwood KFC-1065S Coaxial speakers to replace the 4 inch door speakers. The KFC-1065S are supposed to fit without cutting out any of the metal behind the original ones. For now since the 3.5 inch door tweaters are working fine, I had planned to reuse them once I replace or repair it's broken speaker ring. There was a guy on Rennlist that documented how to repair one of the door speaker rings better than I could ever lay it out. Here is his write up and a photo of my final result - I guess I should have put a little more effort to spread out the leather conditioner better.........
http://rennlist.com/forums/928-forum/595274-save-your-speaker-rings.html
Back to my normal routine - Two Steps Forward and One Backwards
Michael