And the restoration begins!
I haven’t seen any complete threads on what it’s like to restore a rallye dash so this is my attempt on making one. First thing I did was remove the bezel from the actual metal housing. This was relatively simple as it was just a bunch of 1/4 inch bolts.
The only issue I had was getting out the trip odemeter and headlight knob. The trip Odemeter knob twisted off by rotating ccw and the headlight knob was removed by pulling out fully and pressing down the button on the bottom of the unit. After that theres a ring that you will need a special tool to remove by twisting it off.
After that I was able to remove the bezel completely. To get the lenses off, they are held in with plastic, I used an x-acto knife to remove them.
Next I removed the circuit boards and the gauges CAREFULLY (note: the gauges are held together from the circuit board with coupling bolts with a PLASTIC body. So be careful as 50 year old plastic becomes very brittle) the circuit boards are corroded to crap so will be buying new repop boards.
Gave those gauges a clean and for the price I got the dash for, they were in remarkable shape.
Hopefully by next week, the guide coat, primer and revell chrom spray will be in for me to prep the bezel. I saw a guy on Facebook restore one of these with just spray paint and it looked great. Hopefully I get the same results!
I haven’t seen any complete threads on what it’s like to restore a rallye dash so this is my attempt on making one. First thing I did was remove the bezel from the actual metal housing. This was relatively simple as it was just a bunch of 1/4 inch bolts.
The only issue I had was getting out the trip odemeter and headlight knob. The trip Odemeter knob twisted off by rotating ccw and the headlight knob was removed by pulling out fully and pressing down the button on the bottom of the unit. After that theres a ring that you will need a special tool to remove by twisting it off.
After that I was able to remove the bezel completely. To get the lenses off, they are held in with plastic, I used an x-acto knife to remove them.
Next I removed the circuit boards and the gauges CAREFULLY (note: the gauges are held together from the circuit board with coupling bolts with a PLASTIC body. So be careful as 50 year old plastic becomes very brittle) the circuit boards are corroded to crap so will be buying new repop boards.
Gave those gauges a clean and for the price I got the dash for, they were in remarkable shape.
Hopefully by next week, the guide coat, primer and revell chrom spray will be in for me to prep the bezel. I saw a guy on Facebook restore one of these with just spray paint and it looked great. Hopefully I get the same results!