Dash Pad Installation
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7th Gear
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From: Renton Washington
Dash Pad Installation
Hey guys, this is my first post. I have been on the sidelines for a few years now absorbing the information you all share with each other. I learned a lot, and has helped me on my restoration projects.
I recently purchased a 58 project. It came with a lot of loose parts so I have to figure out what they are and where they go. It should be fun.
Now I am working on installing the dash pad. Not only was it expensive, but I don't want to mess it up. I have only one shot to get it right.
Is there sequence to installing a dash pad? I'm attempting to install one on the 58 (everything has been removed from the car). I was told the dash pad needs to be installed first, then the windshield. But I noticed the bottom windshield frame end bolt/studs need to have the nuts installed when I install the windshield. With the pad installed, how can the nuts be installed without ripping back the new dash pad ends (by the grab bar) without wrecking it?
Thanks, Tom
I recently purchased a 58 project. It came with a lot of loose parts so I have to figure out what they are and where they go. It should be fun.
Now I am working on installing the dash pad. Not only was it expensive, but I don't want to mess it up. I have only one shot to get it right.
Is there sequence to installing a dash pad? I'm attempting to install one on the 58 (everything has been removed from the car). I was told the dash pad needs to be installed first, then the windshield. But I noticed the bottom windshield frame end bolt/studs need to have the nuts installed when I install the windshield. With the pad installed, how can the nuts be installed without ripping back the new dash pad ends (by the grab bar) without wrecking it?
Thanks, Tom
Melting Slicks
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From: Kingston, TN
St. Jude Donor '06
Don't glue the ends near where the windshield post bolts are. The vinyl is flexible. You just carefully bend it back and tighten the bolts. The end caps and kick panels will hold the ends of the dash pad in place.
Pro
Joined: Dec 2005
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From: Tolland MA
Tom:
Get the NCRS disc with all of the collective articles ever composed for tha C-1. It has all of the gory details you will need for the successful installation of a pad.
I have touched every nut bolt and washer on my '60 resto and the dash pad was by far the most frustrating part of the whole job.
Rule of thumb, if you think you have removed enough foam from the back of the pad to install your cluster or AL insert behind the grab bar you are probably wrong. Keep (cautiously) scraping.
Now that I have done the job twice I could do it in a quarter of the time which is frequently the case on all of these projects. Find someone who has actually installed one to help you.
Not someone who read about it, not someone who watched someone else do it, not someone who has dreamed about installing a pad but someone who has completed the job soup to nuts. ...and you may be nuts before it's over.
Keep dry fitting that baby and go slowly.
Best of luck to you.
Ralph
Get the NCRS disc with all of the collective articles ever composed for tha C-1. It has all of the gory details you will need for the successful installation of a pad.
I have touched every nut bolt and washer on my '60 resto and the dash pad was by far the most frustrating part of the whole job.
Rule of thumb, if you think you have removed enough foam from the back of the pad to install your cluster or AL insert behind the grab bar you are probably wrong. Keep (cautiously) scraping.
Now that I have done the job twice I could do it in a quarter of the time which is frequently the case on all of these projects. Find someone who has actually installed one to help you.
Not someone who read about it, not someone who watched someone else do it, not someone who has dreamed about installing a pad but someone who has completed the job soup to nuts. ...and you may be nuts before it's over.
Keep dry fitting that baby and go slowly.
Best of luck to you.
Ralph
Racer
Joined: May 2006
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From: MO
Originally Posted by Black60
Tom:
Get the NCRS disc with all of the collective articles ever composed for tha C-1. It has all of the gory details you will need for the successful installation of a pad.
I have touched every nut bolt and washer on my '60 resto and the dash pad was by far the most frustrating part of the whole job.
Rule of thumb, if you think you have removed enough foam from the back of the pad to install your cluster or AL insert behind the grab bar you are probably wrong. Keep (cautiously) scraping.
Now that I have done the job twice I could do it in a quarter of the time which is frequently the case on all of these projects. Find someone who has actually installed one to help you.
Not someone who read about it, not someone who watched someone else do it, not someone who has dreamed about installing a pad but someone who has completed the job soup to nuts. ...and you may be nuts before it's over.
Keep dry fitting that baby and go slowly.
Best of luck to you.
Ralph
Get the NCRS disc with all of the collective articles ever composed for tha C-1. It has all of the gory details you will need for the successful installation of a pad.
I have touched every nut bolt and washer on my '60 resto and the dash pad was by far the most frustrating part of the whole job.
Rule of thumb, if you think you have removed enough foam from the back of the pad to install your cluster or AL insert behind the grab bar you are probably wrong. Keep (cautiously) scraping.
Now that I have done the job twice I could do it in a quarter of the time which is frequently the case on all of these projects. Find someone who has actually installed one to help you.
Not someone who read about it, not someone who watched someone else do it, not someone who has dreamed about installing a pad but someone who has completed the job soup to nuts. ...and you may be nuts before it's over.
Keep dry fitting that baby and go slowly.
Best of luck to you.
Ralph
