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How's yours coming @Vbb199
How To Refurbish Your Dashpad
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Vbb199
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Meh, i never did get back to it, i still need to sand it down then paint it.
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Well I'm just going to post this here. It's NOT refurbishing your dash pad, it's using the overlay. I just found the video, thought if anyone wanted to take that route, this video may help...
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Wow, never seen or heard of removing the old vinyl but sure makes sense after seeing it done. Thanks for sharing this Mr Clean.
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I wonder how 'ol @Stroked is doing these days?
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In the past I removed everything down to metal. Glued down high density foam. Before I glued down the new vinyl, life got in the way. It sat and got dents in the foam. LOL
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Thanks for this video. I have to do exactly this to mine. This really helps.
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So I am curious for those of you who did these repairs a few years ago.... I am thinking of doing mine and spoke with a body man about this process and he said in his opinion it is likely to crack right back in the same repaired areas. I am curious if you guys have experienced this or if the foam repairs have held up. He recommended I just buy a new dash and guessed in a couple years the old cracks would be visible again... Curious about your long term results.
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This is a great thread, and compared to the cost of a quality reproduction, this would be worth a go. Mine is a blue dashboard, but for ease of touchup or to hide flaws, I might just do black. The only thing I would do differently is black screws in the speaker grills.
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That pic is the exact same tach in the exact same place and mounting as the one in my truck! Lol
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Got one too right there. Lol
Mines held on with bailing wire. Lmao
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Mines held on with bailing wire. Lmao
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Got a couple mounted there myself.
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Same sunpro tach too! Lol
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@bucket looks like your driver needs a booster seat!
I'm lucky in that my original dash pad is in very, very good shape. But since we are showing off our tachs, I went unconventional. When I hung the tach I used the lower bolt for the dash pad because I was not sure I'd like it there. Ash tray is converted to power outlet center. And that smaller gauge is trans temp.
Below: this is somewhat of a weird photo without an explanation, but I was trying to demonstrate that someone could sit in the middle without the gauges being in the way of their feet or legs. If Andrew (Redfish) happens to see this, in hindsight your right, all those wires does make it look like a hammered goat turd. But I don't always have that much crapp plugged in. Yes those are my ugly legs....
I'm lucky in that my original dash pad is in very, very good shape. But since we are showing off our tachs, I went unconventional. When I hung the tach I used the lower bolt for the dash pad because I was not sure I'd like it there. Ash tray is converted to power outlet center. And that smaller gauge is trans temp.
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Below: this is somewhat of a weird photo without an explanation, but I was trying to demonstrate that someone could sit in the middle without the gauges being in the way of their feet or legs. If Andrew (Redfish) happens to see this, in hindsight your right, all those wires does make it look like a hammered goat turd. But I don't always have that much crapp plugged in. Yes those are my ugly legs....
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