If you're gonna take the dash apart, you might as well spruce things up a bit.
So ugly. So I bought SEM soap, plastic prep, adhesion promoter, and color coat. First you take it all apart and scrub it down with soap and a scotchbrite pad.
Tape everything up you don't want painted, then the plastic prep, which is basically a degreaser. Followed by two coats of adhesion promoter. Then the color coat till everybody is happy. Go ahead and use those wheels that you never put on Craigslist to keep the parts off the ground.
Once the parts are painted you realize how terrible they really were.
Then just put it all together and be amazed at just how awesome you are.
Now clean up your mess and... oops
Meh, close enough.
Pieces were falling out of the dashboard during the entire disassemble and reassemble process. Apparently GM used fairy dust and soap bubbles to build their plastic parts in the 90's. Look at all the crap that was laying behind the Gage cluster.
Living in an apartment sucks. I did this in the parking lot at work because working on vehicles at the complex is verboten. So if you need an extra tool, or a roll of tape, or paper towels, or anything else, it's pack up all your shit and take a drive. Which I did numerous times. Also, wind, lots of wind. Spray for 20 seconds, wait 5 minutes for a lull, spray for 20 seconds, wait 5 minutes, repeat ad nauseum. I really need a garage of my own, but I don't see that happening here in Florida, where cheap houses are lucky if they have carports. Rant off.
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