[JJorgensen52]

Tonight, I did a lot of sitting in the truck staring at the dash and scratching my head about what to do to fix it

Made the cowl end fillers



So the problem with the dash was that the steering column - firewall brace was broken, so the dash was cracked all around the gauges and the holes were torn. Since my new column doesn't fit in the recess anyway .. away it went!

You can see here that I also cut out the raised section of the underdash reinforcement and fitted up a new straight piece.

Here's where I'm at right now. The dash looks better in the photo than in person, I think . From sitting in the truck I think my pedals are too far apart, so I may make a bracket to move the gas pedal to the left and towards the driver about 1.5" and 1/2", respectively. It's a C5 Corvette pedal, fits a LOT better than the truck one of the same vintage.


Also, I discovered that my Pontiac column and the S10 brake bracket don't play nice - the column has the external "bowden cable" turn signal switch, which is mounted in the 10 o'clock position and is exactly where the pedal wants to be. It looks like if I make a new exit hole on the other side of the column for the cable, I can clock the switch around to 2 o'clock and solve the problem, but I've never been inside an early GM tilt column so this could get interesting