Okay, what about dash foam? Options

[bbrock]

I thought this would be easy but spent too much time today trying to find replacement foam on the top front of the dash next to the windshield and covered in vinyl. With the best scrap of my fossilized original foam in hand, I searched in vain at a fabric store and Michael's. Finally broke my taboo and went into Wal-mart (IMG:style_emoticons/default/yikes.gif) where I found a sheet of open cell foam 1/4" thick. Hard to tell how thick the original was before 40 years of "significant shrinkage" took its toll, but its barely over 1/16" thick now.I'm not sure if 1/4" is too thick and won't open the package until I have a ruling from the committee. I'm thinking 1/8" thick would be better, but where to find? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[rstover]

I recently did this and I used a kit. The foam was ruff cut, but needed trimming on the the curved section and around the vents. Getting the foam cut exactly I thought was maybe the hardest part. My wife did most of this and we tried to get the foam to fit the top of the radius exactly where the metal bends down. When we glued the vinyl we only did half at a time and started from passenger side. If I was doing it again I would stop at middle of vent openings. This would be only a third at a time, but it is easy when only one edge is glued to get a good start again. We trimed and did the vent openings a week later. The glue used was HH-66.



When you are at Walmart go to the craft section and pick up a bag of different size brushes for 5 bucks.