Removing the dashboard
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Someone may have thought of this before, but ...
Pain in the @rse trying to get a spanner on the three nuts that hold the top of the dash in place. As I imagine they shouldn't be too tight anyway, I have replaced them with M6 wingnuts. You can reach the nuts easily enough by hand, and get a fair bit of torque on the wingnuts. Problem solved, I hope. Will post again if the dashboard lands in my lap when accelerating hard.
If anyone has a more trivial or boring post than this, I'd love to see it...
Pain in the @rse trying to get a spanner on the three nuts that hold the top of the dash in place. As I imagine they shouldn't be too tight anyway, I have replaced them with M6 wingnuts. You can reach the nuts easily enough by hand, and get a fair bit of torque on the wingnuts. Problem solved, I hope. Will post again if the dashboard lands in my lap when accelerating hard.
If anyone has a more trivial or boring post than this, I'd love to see it...
Know what you mean. I rang up Waldenway for a tip, and they helped me out.
I couldn't see this one at all, but it isn't too difficult to feel for it once you've got a clue where it is. It’s the only thing in the area, once you know where to start groping (ooh missus).
The stud is mounted horizontally pointing forwards to the front of the car. It is almost up against the side of the car, and its height is a little below the bottom of the instruments.
I got at it by lying on my back with my head under the steering wheel and against the tunnel. You have to reach up over the air pipe to the drivers vent.
If you want to, you can take all that piping out. The air vent itself just pulls out and brings a fabric sack with it that couples the vent to a length of plastic piping. Vent, sack and pipe are all held together with the highest quality gaffer tape. Taking this out gives you a bit more space to play with, but once you know what you’re feeling for, you can leave it in situ.
Again, once you know where to feel for it, you’ll locate it fairly easily again. The space it’s in is big enough to move your hand fairly easily. Needless to say, too small for a 10cm long spanner.
If this description doesn't help, I could knock up a sketch.
I couldn't see this one at all, but it isn't too difficult to feel for it once you've got a clue where it is. It’s the only thing in the area, once you know where to start groping (ooh missus).
The stud is mounted horizontally pointing forwards to the front of the car. It is almost up against the side of the car, and its height is a little below the bottom of the instruments.
I got at it by lying on my back with my head under the steering wheel and against the tunnel. You have to reach up over the air pipe to the drivers vent.
If you want to, you can take all that piping out. The air vent itself just pulls out and brings a fabric sack with it that couples the vent to a length of plastic piping. Vent, sack and pipe are all held together with the highest quality gaffer tape. Taking this out gives you a bit more space to play with, but once you know what you’re feeling for, you can leave it in situ.
Again, once you know where to feel for it, you’ll locate it fairly easily again. The space it’s in is big enough to move your hand fairly easily. Needless to say, too small for a 10cm long spanner.
If this description doesn't help, I could knock up a sketch.
I found that if you remove the air vent pipe, undo the bolt under the door weather strip (for the lower dash section) undo the steering column bolts then it allows the lower section of the dash to be manouvered out of the way enough to get to the 10mm bolt (from behind the dash). The 10mm bolt has a securing nut and a captive nut, on my car the captive nut was loose, so the whole 10mm bolt spun around!
Its a very fiddly job!!
Its a very fiddly job!!
If you take a factory tour you see the bits going in. It's then that you realise some parts are fitted before even the body goes on. How the heck are you supposed to get them out again ... what do TVR care? This is years down the line.
A lot of jobs look easier with the seats out though.
T/.
A lot of jobs look easier with the seats out though.
T/.
Removing the dash reveals a large pile of electrical gubbins neatly arranged in a heap. It's amazing it doesn't rattle more. Good news is there is plenty of free space under it which offers the possibility of fitting .... cup holders!
Come on LevenTech/Zertec! How about it? Machined alloy with beige leather inside to hold the cup.
Also, how about an alloy/leather clip to hold air freshner's and dashboard Xmas trees for later in the year?
Come on LevenTech/Zertec! How about it? Machined alloy with beige leather inside to hold the cup.
Also, how about an alloy/leather clip to hold air freshner's and dashboard Xmas trees for later in the year?
Thanks for the clues guys - I found the nut now. It helps being left handed too! Managed to fix a few little bits 'n bobs while I was 'in' the dash.
Before putting it all back together I found it easier to loosen the inner nut (secures the bolt into the dash top) on the drivers side - this meant the bolt didn't stick out as far and let me slip the dash back into place more easily, then doing the inner nut up with a 10mm open ended spanner from above. Then get underneath and do the final nut up to hold it all tight.
Guess what - even after checking all was working before reassembly I found that after doing so the bulb had gone (or been dislodged) on my speedo ... bugger. Round two coming sometime soon (I'll give the bulb a few days to fix itself TVR style).
Trefor/.
Before putting it all back together I found it easier to loosen the inner nut (secures the bolt into the dash top) on the drivers side - this meant the bolt didn't stick out as far and let me slip the dash back into place more easily, then doing the inner nut up with a 10mm open ended spanner from above. Then get underneath and do the final nut up to hold it all tight.
Guess what - even after checking all was working before reassembly I found that after doing so the bulb had gone (or been dislodged) on my speedo ... bugger. Round two coming sometime soon (I'll give the bulb a few days to fix itself TVR style).
Trefor/.
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Guess what - even after checking all was working before reassembly I found that after doing so the bulb had gone (or been dislodged) on my speedo ... bugger. Round two coming sometime soon (I'll give the bulb a few days to fix itself TVR style).
Trefor/.
Exactly the same has happened to me. Took the dash off, had to loosen the nut to get it back on and my speedo light has gone out.
Clever idea about the wing nuts!
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