what is under the dash pad?
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what is under the dash pad?
I looked at a 65 f100 that was in the junkyard today and noticed that the dash was metal. It looked the same as the pad.
Is this what it looks like underneath? If so, then I might pull mine since its cracked and crappy looking.
Is this what it looks like underneath? If so, then I might pull mine since its cracked and crappy looking.
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Be prepared to repaint! We pulled one off of a 66 and the metal dash underneath had a perfect black paint job on it and the paint looked like new. Apparently when it actually was new some yahoo at the factory went all ***** nilly with the glue bottle to fasten the pad with causing the pad to be ripped into a hundred pieces and a real ugly dash with glue-foam streaks left. Fortunately the windshield was out and we just sanded until smooth then painted with a foo-foo can until black again. It now looks amazingly well however I would not reccomend trying it with the windshield in place.
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weather you're keeping it stock or modifying the best thing to do is remove windshield, when I did mine I was looking for a custom look, after removing windshield it was time to fill in areas such as speaker hole and doing a smooth look, of course keeping the defrost holes, I smoothed most of dash filled in glove box filled in radio and ash tray holes P.O. already butchered radio hole area so I decided to go smooth, maybe one day I'll do dash area but for now I'll keep it like it is.
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My son and I pulled the pad off our 66 2wd CC and recovered it with a flat piece off black materal. We did not pull the windshield. Once in place, it is held in with the intrument cluster and the crome strips, it looks very good, just not padded.
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hey bertha66, thats an interesting way to do it, were you able to get it up close to windshield without getting glue on glass? did you use cloth? or like other dash pads did you velcro it?
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Originally Posted by gangstakr
hey bertha66, thats an interesting way to do it, were you able to get it up close to windshield without getting glue on glass? did you use cloth? or like other dash pads did you velcro it?
Robert
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Nice idea Bertha 66, my 66 cc has cracks in the dash also, is there a tool that takes off the chrome strrips, i have a good friend that does upholstry work and he thinks he can recover it if i can get it off in one piece. he thought maybe it had some tabs underneith to get it off but by reading the tabs i'm assuming it is glued on and may not come off in one piece, this winters project,
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The tabs under the crome are a 2 prong spring clip that pushs into a hole. They pop right off. You can reach under the dash and fill them, squeeze them togather and pop them out. The pad is glued on but comes off ez in one piece.
Took me over an hour to get the pad off, and I still have some spots of foam/glue to remove. That's just really low on the "to do" list.