Right side dash removal

[johnny]

Yeh you will have to hunt. Sirum sells a replacement for the part that has the braces on it, in fiberglass made by Mike Sadlon. Give them a call,
they're in Okechobee FL.

--johnny
--
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell

 

[LarryW]

We have a 78' Royale. The dash needed work so I wanted to have it recovered. The person that was go \ing to do the recovering said he would like it
taken out of the vehicle. So I took it out. BIG mistake. It was brittle from being in the sun for many years. It came out in about 50 pieces. Every
time I bent it even a little or bumped it, plink...crack...something broke off of it. I tried gluing, glassing it. The more I tried to fix it, the
more that broke off of it. Was not repairable, so I had to buy a aftermarket dash. That was a real challenge making it fit and setting up the gauges.
Turned out to be a HUGE job with a lot of labor to get a dash back.

IMO, don't go there. Do whatever you can to avoid removing that dash. As far as getting to the bolts that hold the booster, I cut a hole in the dash
big enough to get my hand and a wrench in. Then made a friction fit "plug" to fit the hole that matched the dash. Now removing the booster nuts is as
simple as pulling the plug and working a wrench. Just my experience with an aged out dash.
--
Larry
78 Royale w/500 Caddy
Menomonie, WI.

 

[LarryW]

Oh...BTW, this is probably a good time to tell people that If you are going to replace the windshields, when the windshields are out, take the time to
remove all of screws holding the dash to the body that reside up at the windshield. They are Philips screws. Remove them, and replace with a SS screw
of the same size and place a little white lube on the threads. Then tighten them snug only. Some day if you need to take those screws out, when the
windshields are in, backing the screws out at the windshield angle, they will come out quite easy. JMHO
--
Larry
78 Royale w/500 Caddy
Menomonie, WI.

 

[Jim Hupy]

Ditto what Larry said. Don't do it. It is a job like none other.
Jim Hupy
Salem ,Oregon

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020, 3:30 PM Larry via Gmclist
wrote:

> Oh...BTW, this is probably a good time to tell people that If you are
> going to replace the windshields, when the windshields are out, take the
> time to
> remove all of screws holding the dash to the body that reside up at the
> windshield. They are Philips screws. Remove them, and replace with a SS
> screw
> of the same size and place a little white lube on the threads. Then
> tighten them snug only. Some day if you need to take those screws out,
> when the
> windshields are in, backing the screws out at the windshield angle, they
> will come out quite easy. JMHO
> --
> Larry
> 78 Royale w/500 Caddy
> Menomonie, WI.
>
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