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Offline 86silverado

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Any Ways To Fix Cracked Dash?
« on: November 26, 2010, 04:30:14 pm »
Im lookin for ways to fix my dash, im not worried about it looking original, i've had some friends that have rhino lined theirs ,  is there anything else that can be done to them?

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Re: Any Ways To Fix Cracked Dash?
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2010, 04:35:31 pm »
They just repaired a dash on the muscle car tv show on powerblock. i believe you can watch it online.

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Re: Any Ways To Fix Cracked Dash?
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2010, 05:14:50 pm »
I've often wondered how it would look if you sanded down the cracks so there were no rough edges then used bondo to fill the void. You could then top it off with some SEM Chipgard to give it a textured look then a quick coat of paint to match your interior.
I wouldn't expect Barret-Jackson results but it could be a quick $20 improvement to a work truck. Someday if I get time I might try it on 1 of my parts truck just to test my theory.

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Re: Any Ways To Fix Cracked Dash?
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2010, 06:51:54 pm »
I found this. It looks fairly simple and straight forward. I think I am going to try it on one of my parts trucks just to see how it goes.
http://gtam.silvahalo.com/dashrepair/index_original.html
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Re: Any Ways To Fix Cracked Dash?
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2010, 07:10:41 pm »
what about the holes for the speakers?  Mine are almost all gone. I guess they could be filled and holes drilled out

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Re: Any Ways To Fix Cracked Dash?
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2010, 09:43:17 pm »
Try here  http://www.justdashes.com/ you have to send it off but you will have a new dash....
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Re: Any Ways To Fix Cracked Dash?
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2010, 10:15:33 pm »
I have one I'll be doing for an expiriment. I'll let ya'll know how it comes out.
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Re: Any Ways To Fix Cracked Dash?
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2010, 10:38:15 pm »
I used an automotive type of carpet and glued it over the top of one that was trashed-worked and looked pretty good.

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Re: Any Ways To Fix Cracked Dash?
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2010, 11:44:18 pm »
I found this. It looks fairly simple and straight forward. I think I am going to try it on one of my parts trucks just to see how it goes.
http://gtam.silvahalo.com/dashrepair/index_original.html

Great link. Thanks!
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Re: Any Ways To Fix Cracked Dash?
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2010, 06:32:56 am »
They just repaired a dash on the muscle car tv show on powerblock. i believe you can watch it online.
I found an episode about a project called Blue Collar Buick but I couldn't get it to open.
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Re: Any Ways To Fix Cracked Dash?
« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2010, 05:40:33 pm »
You have to clean out the voids/cracks and put on plastic repair.  As for the speaker holes the only way to fix them (and they usually mess up at this area) is to drill new ones or cover them up.

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Re: Any Ways To Fix Cracked Dash?
« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2010, 11:57:38 pm »
I've seen people take speaker grills of the appropriate size and put them over the speaker holes in the dash. It looked pretty good if your not after a factory look.
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Re: Any Ways To Fix Cracked Dash?
« Reply #12 on: December 25, 2010, 05:51:49 pm »
Blue Collar Buick is the one he is talking about im going to do the same thing to my dash and paint it black alont with thte rest of the interior lol

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Re: Any Ways To Fix Cracked Dash?
« Reply #13 on: December 26, 2010, 08:58:32 pm »
Coverlay makes new dash skins, that make your dash look brand new. Or, since the dash was actually covered with vinyl from the factory, I personally don't think that it would look half bad if it were recovered properly. I've been thinking of experimenting with other stuff than vinyl to recover it with. Perhaps suede would look good? Or some kind of leather.

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Re: Any Ways To Fix Cracked Dash?
« Reply #14 on: January 01, 2011, 02:24:01 pm »
If you cover one with material, you have to make sure the base is sound/solid.