Thanks. The best way is to take it out, but that's alot of work. The chrome trim pieces had paint on them and the MEK did wonders on that also. I have the ash tray and pieces soaking in carb cleaner at this moment. Next is the guage face and heater control panel. I kinda jumped the gun putting the pad on but I just couldn't resist.
Mines already out. In fact the one I'm working on has never been in my car, its one I pulled from a junkyard, since my original dash looks like this...
I have 3 guages like that one you have. I was gonna make holes in the dash to fit them in but decided not to. I guess I will have to proceed to look into making my "triple cannon" guages set up.
I plan on probably buying a full set of those guages, I think there made by equus, or something like that. Mine will not be crudely stabbed into the dash though, I will be building a center console.
AKA a Comet (he said it, not me, I've got no problem with comets). As for the can idea, I like the idea, but don't know where they could fit and look right. Maybe if you mounted them to the underside of the tray, angled up and towards the driver.
I need to get it made up and see if I am gonna really like it. I am thinking of putting them outside on the cowl. By the time they are all together it will be kinda big... I plan on using a tray so it could end up in there somewhere. I just don't want to have to look down to look at them.
Earl, just put new gauges in his car that look good... :sorry:...about the parts car comment..... ...and saying it looked good...:Handshake
Blu, Clay's Mav has the gauges mounted in dash about where the center vent would go on a factory A/C car. They are in a panel that fits the curve of the dash, yet the gauges are slighty angled toward the driver. If mine wasn't an A/C car, that's where I'd put mine, but since it is, I just went the underdash route with a chrome 3 guage panel. Wish I had a pic of what I'm talking about, but I don't...
