Just starting the process of restoring a 1980 W900A, looking for any good places to buy interior and exterior parts, not having much luck.
Tks,
W900A
Discussion in 'Kenworth Forum' started by sodel1234, May 14, 2014.
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Any luck finding a source for parts? Coincidentally I am starting on restoring my 1980 as well and was wondering the same thing.
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Your best bet is to remove everything and clean and rebuild what you can individually on something that old.
What you can't clean you might have to take to upholstery shop and have them rebuild it. Thats for fabric advice.
For hard plastic parts you will need to take to a body shop and hope they either do them cheap or chow you how to sand and pre and repaint all the parts. It can be done but will take a lot of time. Your project is not impossible. Just time consuming. -
That was pretty much what I was thinking. Only the door panels are salvagable on mine. Truck sat in a field since '04 and the mice got into her. A lot of the drivetrain and suspension parts are still readily available so it's really only the interior that had me stumped.
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New door panels, new hard wood floor, new updated gauges and dash panels. While your there you can run some new wires for all the gauges and electrical stuff. All the way to the fuse box.
Door panels, head liner and sleeper walls are all easily built by an upholstery shop. You can buy some used seats from a new truck someone replaced factory for after market. Then hard wood is basic and easy to install. And the electrical is pretty basic along with all the wire replacement. Just make sure you get the right gage wire and mark everything properly and install it with the proper ends....
Lots of little work that you can do yourself....But lots of time will be required....Dave_in_AZ, Caterpillar Cowboy and AModelCat Thank this. -
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Give this place a call. They run a fleet of ext hood A's as well as the shop. A few are in the videos on the site.
http://spencerschrome.com/interior-products/3259269 -
[QUOTE="georgeandson] I would go all after market [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE="georgeandson] Lots of little work that you can do yourself....But lots of time will be required....[/QUOTE]
Yep. When I get the chance to rebuild a classic truck, I'm hoping a old C500, LW900, or any needlenose butterfly hood KW or Pete, It's going to be a full blown resto-update-mod.
I was thinking about interior plastic trim pieces that need replaced in my old truck I drove in high school, a 91 Dodge W250, and when I get ready to re-do that one, I think a good sheet metal guy should be able to come really close to duplicating, enough to work well and look sharp, all of the plastic trim pieces that hold on your headliners, and other miscellaneous interior panels. -
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