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Jan. 7th, 2018 11:14 pmI removed the top of the dash board in the Spitfire and adhered a new covering to it, because the previous one had finger-width cracks in it, that the previous owner had filled with rubber caulk and then vaguely shaped to match.
Getting the dash pad out was quite difficult. Accessing some of the nuts that hold it in place takes a lot of flexibility and would work a lot better if my hands weren't so big.
Getting it back in place is about to defeat me. I got it in far enough to get the front six nuts onto the studs that descend from it, but I can't get it pushed back far enough into the windshield space. It simply won't go, and I haven't figured out what to do.
Arrrgh.
The process of trying to reinstall it sort of makes me crazy, because I'm working with my hands way up inside the system, and about half the time, when I drop something, it simply vanishes. It's not on the car floor or on any of the recesses I can find under the dash. That's fine when it's a nut or a washer because I have lots of those. It's not fine when it's the socket I'm using to tighten the nuts. I had to disassemble and remove the whole radio console support system because somehow it had gone down inside what felt like a flat metal panel, and even when I'd removed it, the socket managed to get stuck against what, when I finally pulled it out, was indeed a flat plate. The moment I actually got it far enough open that I could see the socket, it fell straight down on the floor so I couldn't see how it had managed to get stuck to, well, a flat metal sheet. No, it's not magnetic. It's just magic.
Getting the dash pad out was quite difficult. Accessing some of the nuts that hold it in place takes a lot of flexibility and would work a lot better if my hands weren't so big.
Getting it back in place is about to defeat me. I got it in far enough to get the front six nuts onto the studs that descend from it, but I can't get it pushed back far enough into the windshield space. It simply won't go, and I haven't figured out what to do.
Arrrgh.
The process of trying to reinstall it sort of makes me crazy, because I'm working with my hands way up inside the system, and about half the time, when I drop something, it simply vanishes. It's not on the car floor or on any of the recesses I can find under the dash. That's fine when it's a nut or a washer because I have lots of those. It's not fine when it's the socket I'm using to tighten the nuts. I had to disassemble and remove the whole radio console support system because somehow it had gone down inside what felt like a flat metal panel, and even when I'd removed it, the socket managed to get stuck against what, when I finally pulled it out, was indeed a flat plate. The moment I actually got it far enough open that I could see the socket, it fell straight down on the floor so I couldn't see how it had managed to get stuck to, well, a flat metal sheet. No, it's not magnetic. It's just magic.
