Sometime
around 4.1.00
Here
is a picture of the dash, the way it was when I got the truck |
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Sometime
around 6.1.01
We ripped the vents out of the dash, and took a picture of
the EQ display for the stereo system.. Unfortunately I could
not find any pictures of the dash when this piece was complete,
but I'm sure I have some here some where.. |
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I
cut out the EQ molded piece and this is my new project for
the dash. Basically I took a 1/8" piece of wood and cut
it to fit where the vents would go.
I took a MTX sticker from a box for my subs, cut out the lettering,
stuck it to the wood, and cut out the letters with a dremel
tool... |
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using
a product called Kitty Hair, we used it to mold the wood to
the sides of the dash..
With the EQ display in the dash we used bondo as a base and
when the weather went from hot to cold real quick, the bondo
cracked and was pretty bad looking... kitty hair is a lot
better in hold up to extreme conditions...
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after
the kitty hair settled, we used a dremel tool to form the
sides of the display to give it a smooth look. |
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| Using
bondo to fill in the cracks and make it a little bit more
easier to sand and make smooth. This will grasp on to the
kitty hair better than the wood, and it should take the paint
a little bit better. |
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PAINTING #1 ~~~ Almost There !!!
we added another coat of bondo, sanded, added, sanded, and
now painted it...
after we painted it I noticed that there were some lines where
you could see where we used the bondo and where it molded
to the dash.. I did some MORE sanding and its going to get
painted again on Monday.
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| I
Cut the letters out and made them look good.. I did this
with a normal file, some parts where the bondo was hard,
I used a dremel tool and made a space big enough to get
a file in there. |
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| Another
coat of filler paint... it's the same type of stuff to use
on a bed liner.. Using it here for texture. |
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| Once
the paint dried started sanding again.. This time with 400
grit to get it to a final point before painting a final
time...
aww crap !!!! look at the white arrow, and then look at
the next picture. |
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| I
guess I was too rough with the sand paper and the paint
started lifting up.. It got to a point where it was just
peeling off of the dash piece.
This
is going to make it so I have to strip a good section of
the paint off and repaint/sand/etc.etc. Again a couple of
times to blend in with the rest of it. |
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| Tried
painting it one last time to see if that corrected the peeling
problems... but it didn't |
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| MORE
TO COME. STAY TUNED !!!! |
MORE
TO COME. STAY TUNED !!!! |
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| MUCH
THANKS TO CHRIS SIMPSON IN MENTOR, OHIO.
HE HAS HELPED ME A GREAT DEAL IN GETTING THIS PROJECT DONE
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