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- St. Louis, MO
- Vehicle Year
- 1983
- Make / Model
- Ford
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- 2.3L
- Transmission
- Manual
- My credo
- Well, that didn't work. Let's try something else!
I'm swapping a first gen dash into my 89 B2. I like the way the first gen dashes look and I'm doing an auto to manual swap so having the dash out of the way will make it that much simpler. At least that's how I've justified it in my head. It's my truck, dammit!
I read through the tech article on doing the swap. They were going from 1st to 2nd gen and I'm going the opposite, but the information should be similar. Anyway, when I popped the 1st gen dash up in the truck, I noticed that only 1 of the 4 screws that run along the top of the dash near the windshield lines up. The others are an inch or more off. Is this what others have experienced? I thought it was odd that the tech article says nothing about that.
Has anyone else that's done a swap run into this? Did you just use the one screw?
I read through the tech article on doing the swap. They were going from 1st to 2nd gen and I'm going the opposite, but the information should be similar. Anyway, when I popped the 1st gen dash up in the truck, I noticed that only 1 of the 4 screws that run along the top of the dash near the windshield lines up. The others are an inch or more off. Is this what others have experienced? I thought it was odd that the tech article says nothing about that.
Has anyone else that's done a swap run into this? Did you just use the one screw?