What did you do to your truck today!

[ItsRandy]

Originally Posted by eagleuh1

Whats the story on "just about killed myself". Maybe somebody elses learning experience will save me, I'm about to do this myself. Jim.

The "just about killed myself" refers to: I set a goal to have my cab in primer this weekend, I set that goal on Friday night after I got home from work. I still had some sanding left to do, door jams and surface rust from having exposed metal for too long, so I had to re-sand pretty much the entire cab, inside and out. I'm not as young as I used to be (my wife says I'm still an 8 year old because of my sense of humor) but the older guy got it done in one long day, hence the almost killed myself.

[kcsa75]

Decided I'd waited long enough for cooler weather so I went ahead and spruced up my gauge cluster. I bought a new bezed from Classic Parts and some orange paint a while back. But between not knowing how big of a job it would be and the oppressive heat that won't seem to go away, I'd been putting it off.

Anyway, I got bored on Saturday and decided to pull the ride into the garage and go to work. First, this is not a big nor difficult job. It took only about 10 minutes to get the dash out of the truck. I did the rest on my workbench with a fan blowing on me.

The cluster comes apart with about 8 screws. First, I painted the pointers on the gauges with bright orange paint that I bought at Hobby Lobby and resprayed the light green reflective side.

Next I wiped down the gauges with a little Windex and a microfiber towel, cleaned the lens real good with Windex and put everything back together. I replaced a few burned out bulbs and put it back in the truck.

All total, including drying time (not very long considering the heat) and a trip to the parts store, it didn't take more than a couple hours.

I think the results make it well worth it.