68 GT convertible project
The center console and steering column are installed. I first started with the console carpet. I tried gluing it on but didn't have very good luck and ended up peeling it back off. I read on here that some people use Velcro. That worked a lot better. Still, the carpet doesn't look that nice but I'm told that it's just the way it is and that it will look fine once the seats are installed. We will see.
I was worried at first that the console wasn't going to go in with the tach mounted. Every time the console was test fit, the dash wasn't installed. Now that the dash is in, I couldn't just drop it straight down over the shifter any more. In order to get it in I had to remove the ash tray, take the lockout lever off the shifter and have the shifter in a vertical position. Then I had to shove the tach under the dash at an angle and rotate the console over the shifter and into place. It's definitely a tight fit. The steering column went in a little easier. Nothing really complicated about that. The lower bearing upgrade looks like it's going to work nicely and the column basically fell into place.
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Once the console and column were in, I had to hook a battery up just to make sure the lights all worked. There was an issue with the map light and the shift indicator light. After probing some wires with the test light I found the issue. The issue was the same for both lights. The factory wiring has + entering the side(body) of the bulb. The ground wire is the pin on the bottom of the bulb. This works fine for an incandescent bulb but not for an LED. I pulled the wires out of the "T" connector at the map light and revered them. Now the + goes into the bottom pin and the ground is the bulb body. The shift indicator light wasn't as easy of a fix since the bulb socket doesn't have wires that can be easily swapped. I ended up having to cut the two wires going to the bulb and spliced them back together reversed.
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The center console and steering column are installed. I first started with the console carpet. I tried gluing it on but didn't have very good luck and ended up peeling it back off. I read on here that some people use Velcro. That worked a lot better. Still, the carpet doesn't look that nice but I'm told that it's just the way it is and that it will look fine once the seats are installed. We will see.
I was worried at first that the console wasn't going to go in with the tach mounted. Every time the console was test fit, the dash wasn't installed. Now that the dash is in, I couldn't just drop it straight down over the shifter any more. In order to get it in I had to remove the ash tray, take the lockout lever off the shifter and have the shifter in a vertical position. Then I had to shove the tach under the dash at an angle and rotate the console over the shifter and into place. It's definitely a tight fit. The steering column went in a little easier. Nothing really complicated about that. The lower bearing upgrade looks like it's going to work nicely and the column basically fell into place.
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https://postimg.cc/DSqwMhDz]
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[/url]Once the console and column were in, I had to hook a battery up just to make sure the lights all worked. There was an issue with the map light and the shift indicator light. After probing some wires with the test light I found the issue. The issue was the same for both lights. The factory wiring has + entering the side(body) of the bulb. The ground wire is the pin on the bottom of the bulb. This works fine for an incandescent bulb but not for an LED. I pulled the wires out of the "T" connector at the map light and revered them. Now the + goes into the bottom pin and the ground is the bulb body. The shift indicator light wasn't as easy of a fix since the bulb socket doesn't have wires that can be easily swapped. I ended up having to cut the two wires going to the bulb and spliced them back together reversed.
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