Dash

[maverickfe390]

Does anyone know how the dash is installed at the Factory are they spot welded or bolted in on a 1972 cab? The reason is I just got a 1972 pickup ( the cab forward no bed ) Because my dash on my 1967 is really differnt then the 72 my heater controls are pull out cable not like the 72,The 72 has factory A/C . I want too use the A/C in the cab of the 67.

Thanks

[fordman]

they are all spot welded in. you wil have to cut that area to fit the heater controls in if you want to use it.

[maverickfe390]

Has anyone that you know of done this?

[FORDification]

Yeah....I have!

I was wanting to to the exact same thing to my '67. I had a '68 cab with a good dash and decided to spend one afternoon seeing just how difficult it would be to remove it, for future transplant into the '67. I had to drill out about a bajillion spot welds and finally got it out, but then decided that I didn't want to have to go through it again on the '67, so I ended up just cutting out the center dash section and used it instead.

Here's a picture of the removed dash, showing all the drilled-out spotwelds:



Take a look at the following pages of my '67 build-up for more pictures:

http://www.fordification.com/myprojects/my67_p49.htm (towards the bottom of the page)

http://www.fordification.com/myprojects/my67_p50.htm

[maverickfe390]

Thanks for the help Ford truck looking great. What did you use for the dash pad? Hassomeone used a pad cover?