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Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine
That's tough even on a truck w/o a Frankensteined front dash.
I once had to send back a new dash pad from Brothers because the extreme left stud was slagged. [Either defective or hit with a high heat source melting off the threads and leaving an ugly blob head.] They grudgingly sent me a new one, but it wasted my time. This was on the '71 Jimmy.
Years earlier -- before all the repop vendors [1980s] -- I pulled off the OEM dash pad, and chipped away all the brittle old Fawn vinyl. I had just reupholsrered the '69 T-Bird seat in the Orange Stepside with some red/brown ''Saddle'' vinyl and there was leftover material. I shot the bare foam on the pad with 3M 77 aerosol glue, and shot the off side of the vinyl with the same stuff. A mist of water sprayed over the pad allowed some correction as I affixed the new skin over the old pad. On the ends I made ''Darts'' and used leather rivets to secure the folds.
Still holding up some 40 years later.
Now that my Sun Visors need recovering, I don't think there's enough scrap materal left for that.
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I like the idea of saving the original dash pad. The one that was in this truck had been re-covered like you did at some point in the past. A couple of decades of sitting without a windshield did it in though. It just crumbled when I removed it.