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Triumph TR6 - Crash PAD/Dash board top

The dash board top has badly cracked vinyl and I want to recover it. (1290 or stag grain vinyl).

Is it necessary to remove the windshield frame to do this job? I've heard that the frame is difficult to move.

BC
B Chamberlain

Hi BC

Yes you will have to remove the windscreen frame, not to bad a job. Do yourself a favour and buy a new dash top cover from BPNS.

Colin
C J Norcott

It is certainly best to remove the frame, but if it will not budge (as was the case with mine) it can be done with the frame in place. Leave some extra material at the edge, which will have to be worked under the windscreen frame rubber seal. It is easier said than done, but possible nonetheless.

The pad is not easy to re-cover. It's convoluted shape presents some challenges, and pulling the material to get it to conform to the curves will definitely distort the foam, if it doesn't turn to dust first. Unless you need to cover it yourself because you are also doing the rest of the upholstery and need to get it to match, going with a store bought replacement may be the shorter path to happiness.

Tony
A. J. Koschinsky

Thanks all;

I'll buy a replacement pad on your advise. Looking at removing, or at least attempting to remove the window frame, does the bracket bolt act as a clamp on the window frame rods? Any tips on getting the frame out?

Thanks

Bryn

B Chamberlain

Hi Bryn

Follow the instructions in the manual. One tip in putting it back in is only tighten the four side bolts just enough th compress the spring washers otherwise you will distort the metal and craze the paint.

Colin
C J Norcott

Bryn

The bracket is like a clamp and the friction fit of the frame to it has its challenges to get free. There is a nut at the end of the frame that needs to be removed. You will also have to work each side a bit at a time.

Good luck. I may do the same this summer.
Michael Petryschuk

The diagram looks like it is only the top, aft-most bolt that effects clamping pressure onto the rods(two others secure bracket to tub). Does this sound right?

I'll make a point of adding grease on the rods during re-assembly.

BC

B Chamberlain

This is what you need to get the frame removed


DNK

Bryn

he BF rubber hammer as Don indicates is needed. All I remember for the 2 times I have done it (once in 1977 and once in 2002) is I ended up removing all the bolts so the brackets are loose from the body and not creating any torque on the frame attachment arms and then I think I even resorted to spinning the brackets to free up the friction fit and get them off. And then with the brackets fully off I inched each side up a bit at a time back and forth with the BF Rubber Hammer until I could lift it out by hand. The seal also has to be freed with a putty knife particularly if some type of sealant was used between the seal and frame and seal and car body.


Others may have had success just hammering it out with the brackets still attached to the body but I never had.
Michael Petryschuk

Thanks all;

The frame is now out and I can put the new dash in place. The passenger side slid out no problem but drivers side was seized. A soaking with bolt release and a blast of heat was all it took.

New dash pad and a birds eye maple veneer for the front; its going to look great.

Thanks again,

Bryn
Toronto
B Chamberlain

This thread was discussed between 11/11/2014 and 23/11/2014

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