rmodel65

a ticket that will be dropped when u go to court like when u have a cracked windsheild its usually dropped when u appear in court

georgiaguy246

those are stupid if you ask me. wasting your time when your going to get it fixed anyways...

rmodel65

yes but some people will nto ever get a windshild fixed in ga if the crack is no bigger than 3" than your still legal

georgiaguy246

lol, on my brothers old blazer there was a huge crack, 16 inches long lol. that thing was halerious everytime it rained he put a towel right there. he never got it fixed, sold it to some stupid mexicans.

rmodel65

both layers were cracked and it ruptured the plasic lining in between? its must have been a bad crack

Fosters82GT

I wanted a new dash that was clean looking and functional, i.e. water temp guage and oil pressure guage, that aren't in the stock 82 cluster. My husband had previously fabricated a stainless steel dash for his Sunbeam Tiger (British sportscar with a Ford v8), so he did the same for my car but in aluminum instead.

I suspect your car would be similar to mine in that a lot of the plastic had to be cut away from behind the stock dash to clearance the new guages. Once that was done, the new dash fit perfectly. Here's a few pics of the dash from the initial cut-out piece of aluminum, building it front and back, and after installation.



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86 5.0L

not digging the aluminum dash panel [:'(] looks abit ricey

it was at the bottom of the radiator, I had to stick the hoses ALL the way down before it came out, maybe sludge? oh yeah, I dont have an overflow bottle

already did, last thing I did was change the fluild before I drove it and for the first couple of miles it shift so-so, then it just stopped shifting, not like the tranny is shot because I can turn the car off, put it into gear, then go just fine

all caps and run on sentences? how old are you exactly? not to be rude or anything but damn....

/grammer nazisim

Its just a ticket that means I'll get a broken headlight, tailight, windshield etc, fixed and appear in court to prove its fixed, doesnt affect me any deeper then that

that LX dash panel turns me off so bad lol, I mean if all I have to do is cut some plastic out of the stock dash panel then so be it

Nice! exactly the input I was looking for, any pictures of behind the cluster? how much cutting of plastice was involved?

Fosters82GT

I didn't think to take any pics after removing the original dash unfortunately. But this ishow it was done.

Once you pull the stock modular guage cluster off, there are two big plugs and the speedo cable. You have to figure out what wire runs each guage and then wire the aftermarket guagesindependently. I had purchased a wiring diagram for the 82 specificially, which made figuring out which wire from thetwo big plugs did what. I would highly recommend you do the same for the 86. It appears that Ford changes the colour of the wires every year.

Pretty much all the plastic inbehind the original guage cluster had to be gutted to make room for the deeper aftermarket guages. A dremel tool was used to cut the plastic which is really easy to do.

The outside perimeter of the original plastic dash panel was used as a template for the aluminum panel. As you can see from the pics, the back looks a little like constructing a time bomb. Installing the dash was a bit tricky because the bottom goes in first and then you have to plug in all the aftermarket connections to the stock wiring harness and then push the top in without pinching any of the wires.

Hope this helps. It sounds a lot more complicated than it really was. It was just time consuming.

86 5.0L

so after fiddling around with the adjuster I can shift all gears except 5th

deanzawistowski

ever think whoever had the car before you could have put in a 160 degree thermostat and the engine just dosent get hot? thats how mine was, had to out in a 195 for the winter to get heat.