Finally, got to spend a little time putting something together. About a year ago I removed the dash, disassembled it, acid dipped it, and repainted it. It was not in good shape--scratched, faded, all the chrome was covered in green corrosion. The old firewall pad underneath was rotted, so I carefully removed it. The wiring harness, while complete and in good shape, looked like a hairball underneath. The attached fuse block was just hanging there. Good news underneath the pad: looks just as it did when it left the factory. Even the unpainted metal areas looked like new. I primed those, and painted them flat black. I "neatened" up the wiring, and looked for potential problems. After installing the new firewall pad (purchased at least 3 years ago), and the short sections of wind lace made special for me last Spring by a local interiors guy (the old pieces were dry rotted), I managed to bolt the dash assembly back into place. Hope to get to the freshened up and nicely painted original tilt steering column next. It should fit good into the Lares remanufactured steering box peeping through the firewall hole.
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