Fatrover

Fatrover

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since I’ve been digging around trying to sort the sodding windscreen wiper motor drama, see previous thread, I’ve developed a near pathological hatred of the plasticky ****ty thing that is a series 3 dash...I’d much rather have a 2 or 2a dash, has anyone transplanted one? ...doesn’t strike me as a big job....
 
I haven't tried it, anything is possibly if you have the time,skill or money. I imagine it's a fairly tricky job or all the 2a ringers that have 'had a Series 3 bulkhead upgrade' would have been swapped to hide their true identity...
 
Fatrover said:
Hmmmm. True. Must be something I can do, the original thing is horrific
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I remember once there was a series 3 on eBay that had the dash removed because the owner didn't like it. I think it still had the gauges in the same place, but the rest had gone. I thought it looked ok.
So can be done for sure.
 
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Are you thinking of going for the whole 2a look?
 
Dont have a heater or any pipes etc for it ( i got the landy when i lived in the canaries), would like to strip the dash right back like a 2a, I really dont like all that plastic
 
Looked at the job myself but never did it, another way presented its self. However I had decided that what was needed was the whole two shelf section from a rotted out 2a bulkhead to fit to a later bulkhead. That shelf section is often the best bit left.
 
I started from scratch and designed and made my own dash. I wouldn’t have if everything was original but my heap is made up of every part known to man.
I too hated the series three dash so binned the lot.
 
Might do a partial strip,down and see where it takes me, ive had the plastic top off and sides for getting to the wheel boxes and thought it looked fine, a carpenter friend suggested a wooden top! .....
 
Fatrover said:
Dont have a heater or any pipes etc for it ( i got the landy when i lived in the canaries), would like to strip the dash right back like a 2a, I really dont like all that plastic
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There isn’t all that much plastic. Most of the dash is metal. ?????
 
Colthebrummie said:
The problem is Bobsticle has handicraft skills that are superb, not many of us could make a dash as good as his.

Col
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I muddle through at best. As it was my first attempt at vinyl stretching, I made numerous errors and just about managed a reasonable finish. I will however be re covering in the near future to iron out the problems. Or at least some of them.
Fact is you can’t get a good job without having a go. If you never have a go you will never know. :)
 
I had the top off to replace the wheelboxes. And the instrument front panel had to come out to replace the switch. Its all plastic. And old.
 
Depends on how original you want to keep it. Back in the day My first landy was a 2a and I love that dashboard. But if you change it will effect the provenance of the vehicle - a series 3 with a 2a dashboard? All things are possible but originality is becoming important if you’re ever going to sell....and a bulkhead is pretty fundamental.
 
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