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I am attempting to repair the dash on my 84, then recover with leather from Classic9. Removed the velcro'd on carpet cover, found an overlay that that had pulled back from defroster vents and separated due to cracking underneath:
The "leather/vinyl", peeled off very easily. Appears I uncovered another overlay, maybe the original vinyl that needs to be removed? Or have I reached the point where I can repair/sand/glue/apply leather?
I am reluctant to "dig" much deeper at this point, the material seems rather thin.
IIRC they were all vinyl at first, the leather was laid over the molded vinyl and the vinyl carved out where clearance was needed.
Clean off all the old leather, leave the cracked vinyl and fill the bad spots, then recover as per any instructions.
I've never done one myself, I'm sure those that have will add to this.
Dave is correct. If you fill in the cracked spots use a flexible filler. I just tried to do a dash on my own. I bought all the material from Keyston and spent hours prepping the dash.
It came out like crap on the corners so I did it again with similar results. The only solution was to ship it to Budd.. I gave up but I gave it an honest try. Previously I had a dash that required recovering on another car and I bought the kit from Budd. I took it to my friendly upholstery shop. I do know that they really struggled with it. My recommendation
is that since the dash is out, prep it yourself and have a professional shop install it.
I used an angel hair bondo. The instructions tell you what to use. Don’t use too much. I did and that stuff dried hard as diamonds. Took forever to sand the excess off. It is very hard to recover with the kit. You need to be able to spray the weld wood contact cement. It goes on both sides. Around the upper right of glovebox I had problems with creases. Use a ton of heavy big sand bags to place on it while a section dries. If I had to do it again I would send it to Budd
07-20-2018, 12:21 PM
Dash Restoration Question
