Checking to see what is normal.
Background: PO has removed and reinstalled original console and instrument cluster surround. The top part of the cast cluster housing where the wiper control assembly goes was broken off and missing. Installationw as loose and sloppy with screws missing, or not in holes, etc.
Having finished the instrument resto and rebuilding the A/C control unit,a nd installing new cast cluster housing, main console and parking brake console, I find that the forward mounting holes in the main console are significantly lower than the metal tabs attached to the trans hump where they are supposed to align to. Now, I can get a screw driver in there and pry up the console to where the holes align, but with the screwdriver in the hole, you can't get a screw in.... The cast gauge housing is screwed to the dash pad with the single top center screw, no other attachments of the cast housing have been performed.
Questions:
Were these screws installed into the metal mounting tabs when the car was built, or was everything just kind of screwed to each other piece and the mounting tabs ignored.
It is generally difficult to get this stuff lined up?
If the tabs were used, and I would like to use them, any suggestion or techniques on how to raise the main console enough to get some screws in to hold it in place?
I have installed a new top dash pad,a nd it looks to be correctly positioned. The dash pad does make it hard to raise the cast gauge cluster housing enough to get the two front main console screws in. I can always remove that center screw and pull the cluster housing forward away from the top dash pad, but then I have to force the cluster housing into position,and maybe that is why the old one was broken.
I can take and post pics if needed.
Thanks,
Doug
Background: PO has removed and reinstalled original console and instrument cluster surround. The top part of the cast cluster housing where the wiper control assembly goes was broken off and missing. Installationw as loose and sloppy with screws missing, or not in holes, etc.
Having finished the instrument resto and rebuilding the A/C control unit,a nd installing new cast cluster housing, main console and parking brake console, I find that the forward mounting holes in the main console are significantly lower than the metal tabs attached to the trans hump where they are supposed to align to. Now, I can get a screw driver in there and pry up the console to where the holes align, but with the screwdriver in the hole, you can't get a screw in.... The cast gauge housing is screwed to the dash pad with the single top center screw, no other attachments of the cast housing have been performed.
Questions:
Were these screws installed into the metal mounting tabs when the car was built, or was everything just kind of screwed to each other piece and the mounting tabs ignored.
It is generally difficult to get this stuff lined up?
If the tabs were used, and I would like to use them, any suggestion or techniques on how to raise the main console enough to get some screws in to hold it in place?
I have installed a new top dash pad,a nd it looks to be correctly positioned. The dash pad does make it hard to raise the cast gauge cluster housing enough to get the two front main console screws in. I can always remove that center screw and pull the cluster housing forward away from the top dash pad, but then I have to force the cluster housing into position,and maybe that is why the old one was broken.
I can take and post pics if needed.
Thanks,
Doug
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