I got some vinyl samples in the mail. I'm going with American flag colors because I like it, and because it makes it easy to buy color coordinated accessories.
I picked up some Krylon for the cluster that matches the blue vinyl close enough.
I disassembled, cleaned, primed and painted the cluster.
While the paint was drying, I bored the holes in the new dash board. The original cutouts were a horrible hack job.
Next, I installed the Teleflex steering. I compiled it from Ebay parts. It is upgraded to the wide rack and the "no feedback"
Finally I set the dash in place, and dropped the gauges in for a glamour shot.
Funny story. I turned the wheel lock to lock, and then back to center by dividing the number of revolutions by 2. The wheel was upside down. No key slot 180° off, so no easy fix. I figured I needed a different wheel to match the gear that I bought. (It was late. I was tired.)
I started looking on Ebay but couldn't remember which way I needed the key slot to go; up or down. So I drug my carcass back out to the boat and was about to yank the wheel off again when I thought to look behind me at the end of the cable. Low and behold, it was moving the wrong direction. I had put the pinion on the rack in the wrong direction. LOL
I took it apart and swapped it around and now it was actuating in the proper direction...but the wheel was still upside down at center position.
Brain fart: It then occurred to me that I could simply unbolt the pinion, rotate the wheel 180° and bolt it back together to fix that problem. That worked, but it took two attempts because of my lack of gracefulness and being limited by only having two hands.
With that all sorted out, I then realized that the mount plate was now upside down. Ugh.
But I digress. All's well that ends well.
