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Old Feb 8, 2013 | 10:46 PM
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Glad your dash pad was only bad at the speaker hole. Mine was bad everywhere. The cover really, REALLY made a big diff in the look of the truck. You'll like what you have done on the dash pad, I'm sure.
 
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Old Feb 8, 2013 | 10:57 PM
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The original was horrible. The center part was all cracked. Bad enough that no screw would go into it. So, we got a new one. The pull your part place we went had a lot of mid 80s trucks to choose from so we go the best of a bad lot. It was only the speaker hole that needed fixed. All of them were like that. Ford didn't put a lot of forward thinking into that dash design. Anyway, the new one will be excellent and much better than my original.
 
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Old Feb 10, 2013 | 09:16 PM
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We got the dash pad done and installed in the truck. Here are the pics.









 
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Old Feb 10, 2013 | 09:23 PM
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Here are some more pics of the pad being painted. These are from my phone so the quality is crap. Sorry.

Also, if you look at the other pics you can see the radio is also installed which was the goal of this entire project.





 
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Old Feb 10, 2013 | 10:03 PM
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Looking good, Jeremy! I like that and would have done it myself if my pad hadn't been sooooooo awful.
 
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Old Feb 10, 2013 | 10:06 PM
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We did a lot of looking to find one that was in decent shape.
 
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Old Jan 16, 2016 | 01:36 PM
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damper door repaire

I had the same problem with my 82
f100 I used a SS hinge and carpet foam on the door but I had to trim the edge down so it would seat
 
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