Anyone with a cracked dashpad ??

[stephen44]

will you all post your transformations and slot filling etc please - stephen

[red403]

Lots of our snow has gone the last few days, I can see the truck again. I will post some when I get the vents out of the dash pad but that will be a day or two.

[austin]

ive got mine off it looks ten million times better but i need to fab up some vents

[Caseys71]

For the Heater and Defroster openings? If that's what your talking about then you can take them out of the pad as a seperate item. They even have holes drilled so they can be screwed into the dash with the holes which were already pre-drilled in the dash as well, I wish I had a pic of my dash now, to show you I just cut the vents out of the dash-pad yesterday.

[austin]

oh alright i will do that for now but im still going to build some new vents out some grille mesh stuff that has some small holes in it because i never have liked the stock vents they look preety good but i can drop a 22. shell down them and ive alwys got to clean the defrost hoses out

[Caseys71]

oh alright i will do that for now but im still going to build some new vents out some grille mesh stuff that has some small holes in it because i never have liked the stock vents they look preety good but i can drop a 22. shell down them and ive alwys got to clean the defrost hoses out

Sounds like that would probably look better than the stock vents, and cleaning the hoses out with the stock vents is the reason I never sit anything on my dash , either it will find it's way into the defrost hose or it will slip through a slot for the dash pad and It'll end up being lost somewhere in the dash .

[austin]

ive deicied to put some screen door mesh behind the stock vents

and i try not not to sit anything on my dash but somtimes it just happens

[austin]

i guess il let the pics talk for now

[Caseys71]

That's exactly how mine looks, except my dash is green. I found some screen door type metal mesh, that I think would work pretty good if you cut the little slats out and soldered or tacked the mesh to the back of the vent frame, then you wouldn't have screws poking through and it would be held, tight and mount up just as the inserts would. I think I may even try that I've got a 5 day weekend thanks to exams .

[JMcTurnan]

Thats how mine looks too, just with some misc padded foam and rust, and white here and there.

[austin]

okay ive been trying to get the 40 old grime off the dash and its not working so ggod ive tryed paint thinner on a rag and some stuff called goo gone no succes need to get this stuff off and a nice coat of smoke grey on top of it

[austin]

well i got the crud off the dash with some brake kleen and i was going to fill in the slots on the dash but when i tryed getting in there with an air angle grinder to clean the paint off and windshield got in the way so gave up for now

what have you guys used to clean the paint off and grind down the high spots i can really think of nothing right now that would work