Little house cleaning on the interior

[BARRACUDA1968]

I decided it was time to clean the dash up a little. I have a SM and an Alky control unit. Both were mounted on the center of the dash. It was hard to watch the scanmaster down by the radio and the two boxes taped on the dash looked a little cheezy to me.

To solve both problems I got this lower alky dash bezel from TR and moved my alky controls to it. The I relocated the scanmaster up where I can see it easier. Only drawback I can see already is it's hard to read in the sunlight. I'll have to get a shroud for it.

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After

 

[696]

You will like having the SM up there. MUCH easier to read in your line of sight...

 

[V6POWER]

Looks real nice. I especially like the alky bezel. Was it hard to remove the original bezel and replace with the new?

 

[TR Custom Parts]

Looks great! Alky overlays available here at the bottom of the page http://buickgn.com/dash.htm and waiting on your order for the scanmaster shade hood. http://buickgn.com/Scanmasterhood.htm

 

[BARRACUDA1968]

Looks real nice. I especially like the alky bezel. Was it hard to remove the original bezel and replace with the new?

It was easy to do the job. The controller comes apart with a couple screws and the button and knob have a nut that holds them to the bezel. I removed the dash bezel and pulled off the old defrost and mirror plate. It's just glued on. I removed my rear defrost switch because I don't use it and put the alky controls there. TR also has this option for the other side where the lights are. I have twilight sentinel so I went with removing the defrost switch. Once that's out you can run the harness for the alky buttons right under the defrost switch. Simple. Attach the alky controls to the new bezel and you're done. I did have to clearance the dash bezel a little for the alky controls but you may not need to. Nothing I did is visible once the job is done. This really looks nice, just as if the factory put it there.

I'll be ordering the SM shade soon from TR.

 

[GNONYX]

You can place the ScanMaster on the rear view mirror as this will also looks like a factory option.

 

[BARRACUDA1968]

That looks nice and I did think about that. I'm going to try it where it is so I only have to look one place to see the wideband and the SM.

 

[GNONYX]

I forgot to mention that I also like the way you place the Alky control
I saw TR Custom Parts which has the dashboard kits, good to know if I ever decide to go with Alky system.
Yes, I know I'm still back in time, it takes a while to catch up with time.