Topic: 77 W72 trans am Restoration ( roof swap )

[4SPEED]

any idea's     

its a black dash someone died camel tan. the chip in dash I can fix, but the cracks, not sure? ? got any ideas?
I sanded 50+% of the die off. going to use that stuff KeePat used on his steering wheel to fix the chip. the cracks not to sure yet.







 

[eroc022]

thats easy send it off to be restored!

[4SPEED]

thats easy send it off to be restored!

and dont want to spend 800-1200 to fix it.      paid 500 for it and got damaged in the shipping.  cant get hold of the seller and didnt use pay pal. ebay kicked him off and I got a cracked dash for 500. that took 5 months of emails and crap.  I'll try something with it.

[y88rick]

owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[Justin]

wow. you've been busy. Great work quality. I really like the A/C box and how that turned out with the clear coat. Good Job. Lovin the pics of everything.

[turbota400]

thats easy send it off to be restored!

and dont want to spend 800-1200 to fix it.      paid 500 for it and got damaged in the shipping.  cant get hold of the seller and didnt use pay pal. ebay kicked him off and I got a cracked dash for 500. that took 5 months of emails and crap.  I'll try something with it.

That sucks.  I've been there done that.  I bought several sets of gauges when I was redoing mine and one seller in particular took 2 months to send me the gauges I bought and when they got here, they looked like he took a fricken hammer to them.  They didn't look that way in his pics.

[4SPEED]

wow. you've been busy. Great work quality. I really like the A/C box and how that turned out with the clear coat. Good Job. Lovin the pics of everything.

thanks Justin,  ya that was a pretty good idea I had.   

no the credit go's to y88rick. It was all him.

[Justin]

lol. Yea I read where he fished for the credit..AFTER..it turned out nice.lol.J/K. It's good to have knowledgable people like that.

[eroc022]

you could always try a dashcap, seeing how you know good bodywork, you could probablly smooth it in ?

[Nexus]

I say dash cap for now...thats what I plan to use...have one waiting to go on when the time comes!!

[4SPEED]

if I were going to cap it I would use the one out of it.  I will try my best on it to make it look right. Once it's in, you really don't see it.
what I'm going to try is .  I'm getting a syringe from my sister (doctor)  and going to mix some rubber cement and supper glue together and inject the mix under the vinyl and see what happens.

here is the one from it.  good one for a cap.

[Nexus]

Yup that one is deffinately a cap canadate

It will be cool if you can fix it. Keep me posted on how it works out

I have a red dash that never had any cracks until I moved last and now I noticed some small ones in the pillar area.

I have the original dash out of The Project that could use some attention

and I have the black dash out of my donar car which will get capped

[4SPEED]

well a fix is just that, but I think the epoxy I put under the vinyl will keep it from getting worse.  in order to see it , you'll need to put your head on the seat and look for it. so it's not to bad.  it will work until we get a good alternative.
             the die and primer is all DUPONT

[4SPEED]

[ZachAttack77TA]

I was going to say dashcap since that's what I did (mine was badly sun-damaged). But it looks like you've got it taken care of. Great work. I like the prism tape idea. Where did you get it at? I'd like to use some in my interior as well.