| Custom Dash [message #296497] |
Tue, 01 March 2016 10:04  |
dr.diesel
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New thread for the custom dash. Wood is not my favorite thing to work with, if I can't TIG weld it or cut with a Plasma cutter it's no good for me!
Slight progress, wood will be stained. Rocker switches are being replaced with toggle type, currently in the mail from Digikey. The headlight switch will remain the same, the wiper vertical actuator is being replaced with a choke pull type.
Radio is a "Media Player", no CD, so it's only 3.5" deep.
Previous owner for some reason spliced a bunch of the dashing wiring. When I pulled it half of them came loose, got lots of tracing and proper splicing to get finished.
77 Kingsley
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| Re: [GMCnet] Custom Dash [message #296500 is a reply to message #296497] |
Tue, 01 March 2016 10:11  |
Olly Schmidt
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Andy,
> Radio is a "Media Player", no CD, so it's only 3.5" deep.
do you have more details about your radio?
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| Re: Custom Dash [message #296503 is a reply to message #296497] |
Tue, 01 March 2016 10:32 |
dr.diesel
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Radio is a JVC Digital Media Receiver (KD-X320BTS), $80 Amazon Prime.
I've got one of these in my daily beater, works pretty good.
77 Kingsley
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| Re: Custom Dash [message #296513 is a reply to message #296503] |
Tue, 01 March 2016 12:22 |
tphipps
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Only downside on the Media players, without a CD internal listening to books on CD becomes a chore.
Bringing Books ion CD to International for "Book Swap." Maybe we should rename it "Media Swap?"
Tom, MS II
2012 Phoenix Cruiser model 2552
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| Re: [GMCnet] Custom Dash [message #296533 is a reply to message #296531] |
Tue, 01 March 2016 14:42 |
Dolph Santorine
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Having built a custom dash, I would buy a MAC dash.
I used VDO gauges, and put in a media player as well (Optical Media? How quaint).
Just my .02
Dolph
DE N8JPC
Wheeling, West Virginia
1977 26’ ex-PalmBeach
1-Ton, Sullybilt Bags, Reaction Arms, 3.70 LSD, Manny Transmission, EV-6010
“The Aluminum and Fiberglass Mistress"
> On Mar 1, 2016, at 3:22 PM, Andy wrote:
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> All the gauges came from these guys:
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> http://www.speedhut.com/
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> Make in the USA, and a huge selection.
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| Re: [GMCnet] Custom Dash [message #296563 is a reply to message #296533] |
Wed, 02 March 2016 05:24 |
dr.diesel
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Dolph Santorine wrote on Tue, 01 March 2016 15:42MAC dash
I considered the MAC dash. Now that I've dug in behind the factory dash, I probably would have gone that way. All of my dash supports are broken, both the facing ring and vertical risers, found most of it in a pile during disassembly.
This factory plastic is unbelievably brittle, fixing it is almost impossible.
77 Kingsley
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| Re: Custom Dash [message #296565 is a reply to message #296497] |
Wed, 02 March 2016 06:23 |
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>fixing it is almost impossible
I wouldn't patch any of it, it's off-gassed to the point that the whole structure has lost mechanical strength. Fix A, B then breaks. You should fabricate & replace what you can. My Royale's dash supports decided to go belly-up a year *after* JimB had installed a Mac dash and done all the re-coloring. Luckily, JP came to my rescue with a solid donor dash and JimB performed a miraculous "open dash surgery" and transplanted just the driver's side.
SOLD 77 Royale Coachmen Side Dry Bath
76 Birchaven Coachmen Side Wet Bath
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Elizabeth City, NC
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| Re: Custom Dash [message #296586 is a reply to message #296497] |
Wed, 02 March 2016 14:49 |
dr.diesel
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I decided to hitch up the Speedo, poke around. Quick video showing all the available screens/pages available on this model. I'm impressed, appears quite nice, the display was a bit hard to get a clean video, looks very good in real life.
https://youtu.be/KL4RpBtXu3g
I also found two circuit boards behind the dash, just laying there. One was bare, the other is half covered in a white plastic enclosure, I see no mention of them in the maintenance manual, but need to look/dig further.
77 Kingsley
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| Re: Custom Dash [message #296591 is a reply to message #296497] |
Wed, 02 March 2016 15:23 |
dr.diesel
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Think I got it. The one on the left appears to be part of a low coolant indicator, and when I wiggled the connector for the board on the right the low fuel light came on.
77 Kingsley
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