First approach in the vehicle...After hours and hours of sanding…

First approach in the vehicle...After hours and hours of sanding, cutting bonding and again sanding I got this. You can see that I tried to set the new bezel a little twisted, the same as the original bezel. This stupid detail gave me more than one problem, so if you are not crazy as I am please make it straight, it will be easier. You will also see in this picture that the new bezel is not perfectly aligned with the original one. This happened because the fu#&ing 4wd shift lever was in the middle of my way!!!! To solve this I moved it 15 mm to the right in order to get some more room for the lever (I didn’t want to bend it). You can see a detail of the slot in the next picture

Owner caption February 2006 · Photo 13 of 242