stainless steel dash overlay

[aaronmichorn]

Does anyone have a stainless steel panel overlaying their original dash. I am thinking of either getting a SS or aluminum overlay. They guy at the metal shop said that I would have a hard time drilling for gauges and cutting out for other things. Anyone have experience with a Stainless dash?

I like the look of stainless better,and I could match it easier to the other things inside the cab.

 

[Madgyver]

Aluminum is much easier to work with.

After trying it in SS you'll know what I mean, Unless you have the right tools to cut/drill SS with I would rather work with aluminum or just plain steel sheetmetal and paint.

 

[Punisher]

Stainless steel is very hard to cut, Im planing on using aluminum, If you are planing on cutting for gauges go with the aluminum if you have a dash in mind that is already cut for the gauges you want go for it.

 

[CodeeB]

I did mine in stainless and it came out fine. I don't think I would do it again, it's very hard to cut. Aluminum would be much easier to work with and with a brushed finish would look nice.

 

[aaronmichorn]

do you have any pictures of your dash?

 

[CodeeB]

Here are a few pics. One other thing I don't like is, my son likes to play in the Bronco and fingerprints are a big problem.

 

[NicksTrix]

codee, go to lowes and get a bottle of "stainless magic". it's a cleaner/conditioner. it's designed for kitchen products and works great on keeping finger prints off. think it's about 4-5 bucks a bottle. we use it in our house and it works great with our little crumb cruncher around touching everything.

 

[CodeeB]

Thanks Nick, nice to hear from you.

 

[Punisher]

The stainless does look good, I like your steering wheel to. ;D

 

[jduffent]

That IS a nice looking dash! I particularly like those Carling switches all lined up. We recently redid the dash in my rig and it now has a "few" of those I thought about doing mine in stainless (since its Sooo damn sexy!) but since Ben (the dog) likes to try standing on the dash knobs I went with a matte finish powdercoat... hopefully, it will stand-up to or hide the scratches... we'll see! I know one thing for sure, aluminum doesn't last too long when you don't get their nails trimmed often enough! %)

I dig those steering wheels too (wished I would have thought of doing em!):-[ Little heads up on them though. You might want to try keeping the colored annodized versions out of the sun as much as possible. I just saw a California rig with one in Arizona that used to be red. It is now more of a peach color :'( I'm hoping that isn't an issue with all annodized stuff or I'm gonna be pretty bummed in a couple years...

And... Hey, I recognize that signature! I'm guessing you must have been one of the guys who snuck my dad off to sign his dash while we were at the Free 4 All! ;D It looks great on the Stainless!



Suzy

 

[CodeeB]

That IS a nice looking dash! I particularly like those Carling switches all lined up. We recently redid the dash in my rig and it now has a "few" of those I thought about doing mine in stainless (since its Sooo damn sexy!) but since Ben (the dog) likes to try standing on the dash knobs I went with a matte finish powdercoat... hopefully, it will stand-up to or hide the scratches... we'll see! I know one thing for sure, aluminum doesn't last too long when you don't get their nails trimmed often enough! %)

I dig those steering wheels too (wished I would have thought of doing em!):-[ Little heads up on them though. You might want to try keeping the colored annodized versions out of the sun as much as possible. I just saw a California rig with one in Arizona that used to be red. It is now more of a peach color :'( I'm hoping that isn't an issue with all annodized stuff or I'm gonna be pretty bummed in a couple years...

And... Hey, I recognize that signature! I'm guessing you must have been one of the guys who snuck my dad off to sign his dash while we were at the Free 4 All! ;D It looks great on the Stainless!



Suzy

Yes, the wheel is starting to fade a little. When I saw your reply I was wondering if you would recognize that signature.