I think that piece has been cut off of mine. In the center of my roof I have two tabs approx 3/4" wide and angled on one end, the angled ends face each other and the two tabs are flat to the roof. I had always thought that there was a missing part that slid under these to taps until I saw a friends truck recently (Albuq-F1) who had the piece you're talking about. Hopefully I have enough left to weld to.

don't you just love Previous Owners??

Bobby

 

"NO"

The PO cut three holes in the dash for gages.

 

Mine's not quite so bad.....he just used a combination of church key and cutting torch to finely tune the radio opening....

....AGH!

 

But Hey! They can say that they did it all by themselves.