vintage dashes 280z

[YZFMax]

Fantastic videos Dave!  This will help a lot of us that are also in the process of replacing our dashes.

[Captain Obvious]

8 minutes ago, S30Driver said:

you can't do it is with a dash cap installed.  with the vintage dash, this is not a problem.

The dash caps don't work over the Vintage Dash? What's the problem there?

I don't have much problem reaching up under the dash to screw in the speedo cable. As crowded as it is under there, it just seems to work. Maybe it's my long spindly orangutan arms.

[S30Driver]

I'm just trying to save your sensitive back Bruce.   I remember Austin....

[Dave WM]

38 minutes ago, Captain Obvious said:

The dash caps don't work over the Vintage Dash? What's the problem there?

I don't have much problem reaching up under the dash to screw in the speedo cable. As crowded as it is under there, it just seems to work. Maybe it's my long spindly orangutan arms.

I have gorilla hands, not good it tight places. It was nice to see the speedo work on my test drive down the steet...

Edited January 24, 2020 by Dave WM

[Dave WM]

Now what to do with the old dash (I have two now, my decent one that came out and a JY pull that was going to be used as a experiment on fixing). For now the decent on is installed on the JY frame and will be stowed in doors. the JY dash will go in the attic for "seasoning"... Maybe one day there will be a use for these, I think this is how hoarding begins...

[Captain Obvious]

 

12 hours ago, Dave WM said:

I think this is how hoarding begins...

I've seen your place... I think you may have started just a wee little bit before that new dash arrived.   

Looks like all of our places!    

[Captain Obvious]

12 hours ago, S30Driver said:

I'm just trying to save your sensitive back Bruce.   I remember Austin....

Thank you for watching out for me! I appreciate it!

Yeah, Austin... I focus on the good parts. And there were enough of those that I can push the other stuff to the background.

[Dave WM]

so when is it going to get nice again up around the tail of the dragon, Dat Boi is wanting to take a run! show off his new dash!!

[Patcon]

We are about to head into our traditionally bad months of Feb & March. I dont know about April. It can be really different weather in the mountains than where I am in the foothills even though its not that far away

[Dave WM]

I have been trying to check out the Blairsville area for possible retirement, keep running into weather (at least for the past month or so..) looking for smallish towns with decent mountain views that are not all weekend cabins... not an easy task.

[YZFMax]

Thanks for the information in this thread, and Dave for the videos. Took my dash out over the weekend, took about an hour, and this was taking my time.

While I have this out. Will be upgrading the stereo and adding power steering. :)


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[Dave WM]

I presume the electric assist that fits under the dash then?

Remember make sure you get that dash push as far back on the frame as you can, you want the side edges to extend enough to fit behind the door molding. The holes for mounting the dash are oversized to give you some wiggle room. Removing the dash turns out to be not that big a deal, the engineers at Nissan that designed this car really did us all a favor.