Allan Rhodes's Journal - Dash And Gauge Work : The Austin-Healey Experience

Dash And Gauge Work

Allan Rhodes — Posted on The Triumph Experience
Sunday February 23, 2020 12:19 PM

I'm hopping around a bit on this restoration so please bear with me. I decided to re veneer the dash and to update it with matching volt and oil pressure gauges as if they were "factory installed." The gauges will be up and toward their respective corners from the existing gauge openings. Yes, I'll move the warning lamps, interior and rear defroster switches to another location After some 30 pages of eBay I found one of each that matched the originals. Here's the concept, now I gotta do it.

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Speedo Cable

Allan Rhodes — Posted on The Triumph Experience
Sunday February 23, 2020 12:26 PM

Old cable was split so a new one goes in. So what is the sink aerator for? I used it as a die to clean up the threads on the tailshaft. Yep, it did the trick.
I must say the cable will be none to long.

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2020-02-28 17:07:04 # 61721

Comment by Wayne Tate

Allen, you might want to check into a right angle drive.You do not want a tight turn in that area and if I remember rightly, they had those. I put one in mine right before I buttoned up the tunnel, it just didn't look right. Kind of like yours.Wayne

2020-03-04 07:40:17 # 61816

Comment by Jerry Magorian

Thank you for the idea.

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New Dash Layout And Veneer

Allan Rhodes — Posted on The Triumph Experience
Saturday March 14, 2020 10:08 AM

I have decided to "update" the GT6 dash to what the factory could have done in 1970. I have matching oil pressure and volt meter gauges for the center dash. The smaller hole next to the vent hole is for the ignition switch on the r.h. dash. The rear defroster and interior light switches will be relocated somewhere else. Naturally, I still have urethane coating to apply.

I will not have to do any fiddling to get the heater controls to fit. Ditto the added gauges, they fit just within the metal dash opening.

Pretty Happy, thanks for the encouragement of "The Experience."

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2020-03-14 12:13:03 # 62026

Comment by Wayne Tate

Allan, that looks great and it will take a bit of fiddling to route out the back on the heater control plastic panel. Might have to trim the legs off to clear the top gauges.A few of us know how much work goes into that little project. Wayne

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Crash Pad Renew

Allan Rhodes — Posted on The Triumph Experience
Sunday March 29, 2020 9:20 PM

With lots of helpful post from the Experience, and knowing that either a dash covering, or more expensively, a completely new dash pad were available, we decided on the $20 piece of automotive vinyl route. Bumper Bondo filled the really bad parts. Yes, I did a hack job of properly smoothing it. After sanding, I followed up with RTV gasket maker to smooth it out. And finally glued down. I will add the ask tray and demisters tomorrow. In deviation from the complete factory look I have wire wheeled them down to bare metal and cleared them.

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Cleanup Valve Cover

Allan Rhodes — Posted on The Triumph Experience
Friday April 10, 2020 4:25 PM

With a bit of elbow grease and lots of time on the wire wheel results in a pretty decent job. Boy, those crevices are the pits.

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Wiring And Scuttle Work

Allan Rhodes — Posted on The Triumph Experience
Sunday April 26, 2020 10:26 AM

With all the dash work going on, this allows for a nearly empty area to paint.........after three unsuccessful attempts to keep the paint down.....it worked. I'll have a finished picture after it cures.

Thought I would include the wiring loom in the floorboard which you see laying atop my recently re-started train layout. BTW, my son will be advising on electrical work. I view this type of work as electricky.

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