Can the 63 dash pad from Stude International be mounted on the bare dashboard frame or does it need some existing padding to attach to? I want to get one, but there's nothing left of the old padding on my dash. It was so bad I had to completely strip it off the dash frame and throw it away.
Scott Rodgers
If it is a NOS pad, it just glues to the metal of the dash. ISTR that you need to reuse a metal support somewhere in there however, but I have only seen one of these apart quite a while ago.
nate
It has to go over your cracked, old pad.
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Hmmm... can you position it where it needs to be and fill it with expanding foam? (i.e. "Great Stuff" or similar)
nate
Is it the same for the Avanti dash cover they sell or is it a repop of the original dash? I know that they were very prone to cracking. Thanks, Dave B.
I took the old dash pad completely off to do mine. There was no way the fiber glass pad was going to go over the old one. Pictures here:
Scott, You did good! You were going to need to remove the old dash pad anyway before the SI dash would go on.
Thanks Michael! I had the pictures of your dash on my laptop, but I couldn't remember where I dowloaded them from. It's good to hear that you removed your old pad completely. The installation looks great.
Scott Rodgers
FYI-
I have a pretty good 63 dash I was going to put in my 63 Wagonaire:
Scott Rodgers
Thanks Scott. I did not remove the instrument cluster when I installed it. I carefully trimmed the excess from the caps lip that goes around the instrument cluster with a dremmel tool and got it to slide over the custer. The fit is not as perfect as a nos pad would be, BUT it looks pretty darn good. I was able to buy a blue NOS vanity from SASCO and bought the burgundy die which is perfect match from Studebaker International.
My comment to Studebaker International was that the lip around the speaker cover needs to be dished in better for the speaker cover to fit properly. This was one of the areas I ended up trimming. If you just take your time it will work out just fine.
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