Dash Pad
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Dash Pad
The dash pad on my 79 F-150 is rotten and all to pieces. How hard is it to remove and how would it look with no pad! Is the metal underneath pretty much a solid piece or does it have a bunch of slots or holes. This isn't a show truck and never will be , just my knock around the mountains,hunting and wood hauling truck . Thanks for your help and info. Sammy.
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I've removed my dash pad and all thats under it is a few small holes for the bolts.
Removal of the pad basicallly requires you take the inst. cluster out, unscrew and push back the glove box so you can get to the nuts that hold the pad on, a small ratchet and socket worked for me.
Removal of the pad basicallly requires you take the inst. cluster out, unscrew and push back the glove box so you can get to the nuts that hold the pad on, a small ratchet and socket worked for me.
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From: Auburn, WA
Originally Posted by George Frasier
Quick/simple fix is to get a cover. Less $$ & time. If you don't get the right color, prep and paint. Several companies offer them.
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From: Gadsden Purchase
We dohn need no steenkeen padded dash! :/
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/dash.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/dash1.jpg
The reflection in the windshield works-out kinda cool in the first picture huh? :)
In the lower left hand corner of the 1st picture you can see where I put a small stainless steel bumper bolt in an empty hole. The padded dash used that hole, it had a stud poking through it with a nut inside the dash. You'll need to get in there and un-screw those (5/16"?).
Just above that bumper bolt is a slot with a U-nut I added by slipping the U-nut into it. Need a special U-nut, I made mine with a dremel from some I had but they can be bought too. I used those to hold in place a homemade black-carpet dash-mat. The sorry PepBoys carpet was supposed to be sun-proof. ;) Took it off a couple years ago and never bothered to replace it.
Really need to put something dark, back on the dash tho. :)
Of course the factory made dash mats won't fit worth anything with the padded-dash-part removed.
Who wants one of those dangged things anyway? Expensive sissy crap IMO. ;)
YMMV :)
I Super-Dyna-Matted the crap out of the dash and firewall while I had the dash out and still need to take a good picture of the passenger side where I filled the hole in the end of the dash with heavy screen (for support) and bondo.
That hole can be seen on the driver's side with my Dana Speed Control-control sticking out of it.
BTW, nobody ever claimed everyone posting to FTE was all the way sane.
Alvin in AZ (lived in Arlington Co a couple years)
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/dash.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/dash1.jpg
The reflection in the windshield works-out kinda cool in the first picture huh? :)
In the lower left hand corner of the 1st picture you can see where I put a small stainless steel bumper bolt in an empty hole. The padded dash used that hole, it had a stud poking through it with a nut inside the dash. You'll need to get in there and un-screw those (5/16"?).
Just above that bumper bolt is a slot with a U-nut I added by slipping the U-nut into it. Need a special U-nut, I made mine with a dremel from some I had but they can be bought too. I used those to hold in place a homemade black-carpet dash-mat. The sorry PepBoys carpet was supposed to be sun-proof. ;) Took it off a couple years ago and never bothered to replace it.
Really need to put something dark, back on the dash tho. :)
Of course the factory made dash mats won't fit worth anything with the padded-dash-part removed.
Who wants one of those dangged things anyway? Expensive sissy crap IMO. ;)
YMMV :)
I Super-Dyna-Matted the crap out of the dash and firewall while I had the dash out and still need to take a good picture of the passenger side where I filled the hole in the end of the dash with heavy screen (for support) and bondo.
That hole can be seen on the driver's side with my Dana Speed Control-control sticking out of it.
BTW, nobody ever claimed everyone posting to FTE was all the way sane.
Alvin in AZ (lived in Arlington Co a couple years)
