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does anyone have a nice dash cover that they like I am in the market and m interested in seeing pictures of brands that have worked well on these trucks.my dash is pretty cracked up and I don't feel like doing the bondo job that I have seen some people on the forum doing it looks nice but I just don't have the time so I am looking for a off the shelf dash cover that fits on my truck
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I repaired one pad and eventually had it sprayed with Line-X in gray. I repaired another which had minor damage in the speaker grille area by cleaning out the old, dry foam and epoxy gluing in a piece of Sintra sign plastic on the backside. I then glued pieces of old speaker area plastic harvested from another severely damaged dash from the JY and re-drilled all the speaker holes. Once cleaned up, I painted that dash top with a grey SEM paint. Both dashes look good; the Line-X one has more texture and is certainly tougher.
BTW, Jeff's Bronco Graveyard now sells a black 1980-86 dash pad made from original American Ford tooling for $325.
BTW, Jeff's Bronco Graveyard now sells a black 1980-86 dash pad made from original American Ford tooling for $325.
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do you have a step by step process you used. and a few pics of how they turned out? did you take the foam off of the plastic or did you just glass over the foam pad? 
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Both of the dashes I repaired did not use fiberglass resin. I used polyurethane glue (like Gorilla Glue) and very small amounts of Bondo; very minor sanding and spot priming was required. The dashes were very good candidates for repair with the speaker hole damage being the major area needing repair.
To fix the speaker holes I removed the dried out foam from the underside between the crossbrace and epoxied in pieces of Sintra cut to fit. Once this cured I placed sections of speaker where some was missing on the topside and epoxied it to the Sintra being careful not to get epoxy on the vinyl dash material. Use a sharp knife like an X-acto with a new blade. The patch will be nearly invisble once painted.
The dash shown was sprayed with Line-X when the Line-X shop was spraying another job of the same colour. It cost me $50 CDN. I may repaint it another colour with SEM paint to match other interior components as I redo my cab interior.
To fix the speaker holes I removed the dried out foam from the underside between the crossbrace and epoxied in pieces of Sintra cut to fit. Once this cured I placed sections of speaker where some was missing on the topside and epoxied it to the Sintra being careful not to get epoxy on the vinyl dash material. Use a sharp knife like an X-acto with a new blade. The patch will be nearly invisble once painted.
The dash shown was sprayed with Line-X when the Line-X shop was spraying another job of the same colour. It cost me $50 CDN. I may repaint it another colour with SEM paint to match other interior components as I redo my cab interior.
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