Re: 1976 Holiday 18 Mercruiser 120
Progress over the last two days. I cut out a new ply top dash cover out of 5/8" ply, the old one was 1/2" and pretty rotten. I soaked it with water on both sides, covered the bow aluminum with plastic and bolted the ply down and weighted it to try and obtain the curve.
Then I started working on building a new center section support for the dash, what a pain in the #$%@#, after cutting out all the pieces and carefully fitting them under the dash, sand here cut there, allow for vinyl and so on.
Now how they put these together at the Starcraft factory is pretty lame. They are a pain as the side pieces have to be upholstered prior to assembly. Then they proceeded to staple the upholstered horizontal pieces in, I guess it worked cuz it was still intact after 37 years, but the replacement is screwed together with countersunk deck screw. This one will last 60 years. After the assembly then you upholster the outside of the parts to cover all the screws.
For the step I used polished aluminum diamond plate.
Continued.
