Pillowthread

So, I' m thinking of ripping out the entire dash and vent structure from my '79 hilux. It's all rotted out from sun damage on top, with an ill-fitting dash cover that rattles around and shifts and crap...I'm thinking I could find a decent cowl on ebay and fab up a mount for some 52mm gauges. What I'm wondering is: what do I do with the odometer? Do I fab up some kind of separate mount, do I tuck it up under something, or is there another option?

Also, as far as dash materials go, has anyone here worked with Kydex? I'm thinking I could just wrap something around the stock dash tubes, or weld on some kind of additional tubing and go around that. Otherwise, I was thinking some kind of cut-and-glue Kevlar paneling mounted to the aforementioned tubing.

What have you all done as far as custom dash work goes?

suncomb1

I have seen stock dashboards modified with fiberglass. Some were smoothed with different openings for gauges, vents, radio, etc and some had custom consoles blended in. I would contact Slacker on this WEB site and ask him, he really does nice work and might give you some ideas.

dirtdobberoffroad

[quote=suncomb1;51870333]I have seen stock dashboards modified with fiberglass. quote]


you can check out my build I fiberglassed my dash pad. if you have any ?'s PM me.



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