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I forgot how much fun it is to pull the dash pad on a ’64. I had to pull the entire cluster off to get to the nuts. My dash pad is a mess. Several cracks and it has shrunk almost ¾ of an inch in length on both sides. The vinyl is so brittle that it cracked just pulling it around the front nose. As I look at the design, it is apparent that Chrysler did not want to do two completely different designs for A/C and non-AC cars other then the holes for the A/C vents. The non-A/C cars used a plenum, no doubt in plastic, that bolted up to three slotted holes in the sub-dash. One on each side. For the A/C cars they blocked those holes with some thin plates from the underside and created a valley for junk and dust in the process. Both versions use that 2-inch cured painted trim part to hide the sub-dash bolts and both pads end just at the edge of the dub-dash where the defroster holes are used or not. My thought is why even use the old dash pad. One could cover the sub-dash with a ¼ inch of closed cell foam then place a good vinyl over it and extend it into and under that 2-inch forward trim part thus covering the non-A/C defroster holes
and making the dash pad a clean line all the way forward. The only thing one would “loose” is the little embossed line at the “nose” of the pad. I can live with that. Thoughts? James For archives go to http://www.forwardlook.net/300-archive/search.htm#querylang --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chrysler 300 Club International" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to chrysler-300-club-international+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chrysler-300-club-international/CY5PR19MB6171B41C55049DE72C6BE70B931B2%40CY5PR19MB6171.namprd19.prod.outlook.com. |
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