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Apr 15, 2011 | 10:00 AM

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Poison Oil Racing

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Originally Posted by Murf77

Nice! Can you make me one

Maybe. I have to do some final fitment testing since this is the first one we made.

Apr 15, 2011 | 01:07 PM

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ChaseTruck754

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Here is what I am working on: A custom built stainless dash insert.

Front View.

It needs a little elbow grease to clean it up but that shouldn't be too much work.

Mark

Nice work, but dangit - someone beat me to doing that! I have been planning on making either a stainless or aluminum one like this for about a year or 2 now. Have some templates for it made but since other areas of my swap are of greater concern right now I just left this project hanging.

Looks good though and makes me think I won't be wasting my time making something where I won't like the finished product. I do think I'll do mine in aluminum though. A lot easier to sand/clean up and I like the brushed aluminum look better than shiny on the dash.

As for the link Bucks posted - those look cool but way more than I would spend. And yes I'm the type that will but 32 hours into making one instead of spending $300 on one that is already done

Apr 15, 2011 | 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by ChaseTruck754

As for the link Bucks posted - those look cool but way more than I would spend. And yes I'm the type that will but 32 hours into making one instead of spending $300 on one that is already done

I have the same thought. Mine is made from an old stock cluster, but I had hardly any money in the cluster itself so I could have more money into some nice gauges. Those clusters from classic dash are nice, but more than I'd put into it.

How would that stainless insert mount?

Apr 15, 2011 | 01:51 PM

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ChaseTruck754

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I would be mounting mine with stainless, button head allen screws through the vertical face in a few areas.

Apr 15, 2011 | 02:00 PM

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I would be mounting mine with stainless, button head allen screws through the vertical face in a few areas.

Are you making some mounting tabs on the dash itself for those?

Apr 15, 2011 | 02:31 PM

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ChaseTruck754

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No - the holes would be drilled through the vertical face in the dash. My "insert" will look like poison oil's and will cover the same area as the stock surround - which includes a bit around the hole in the dash. I would drill through the dash and surround and would most likely run "nutcerts" (threaded inserts like used in the doors for mounting mirrors) in the dash itself.

*side note* - shipping quote for those body towers coming up shortly!

Apr 15, 2011 | 06:51 PM

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77460ford

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With the aftermarket dash pod selections for our trucks and the numerous custom dashes we've seen from members we should have a sticky thread. Like the tips and tricks thread you would post your setup with pics to allow others to quickly scan for ideas and answers on how different setups look. Sorry to hijack but so many good ideas get posted and buried.

Apr 15, 2011 | 07:58 PM

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Poison Oil Racing

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I agree. Who do we contact to see if we can get this to be a sticky thread?

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Apr 16, 2011 | 03:16 AM

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Aaron-71

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I agree. Who do we contact to see if we can get this to be a sticky thread?

Sorry to burst your bubble there guys, but there are TONS of threads that should be sticky'd because they contain good info.

I just can't see it being done. I've literally read through and posted LOTS and LOTS of good info on tons of stuff, but when it comes to stickying, it just never happens.

Personally, I think this site needs some sort of archive for sticky threads so that we CAN sticky stuff and save it in a decent spot. Dedicate piles of information to a single thread with a well-deserved thread "title", and it'll save a lot of greif on having to explain stuff to the average joe.

All we'd ever have to do if this stuff got sticky'd is point and grunt once the info was saved. No more of re-explaining stuff anymore

It'd certainly be nice!