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Not sure Joe. May be okay. Guess we will compare them in Dayton. I was just tickled that I could swap mine with a 72-76.

Joe, I cut down the pillow foam to form a brow all the way across but I don't recommend doing it that way. The brow foam is a different density from the pillow foam and doesn't stick out quite the same distance once you get it contoured the same so there is a slight discontinuity where they join. Instead I would suggest a dense closed cell plastic foam, maybe something like a pool noodle but denser if you can get it. Plenty of companies around that sell that stuff in about any density you could want and it'd basically be scraps. I'd try to go above 6 lb density. Maybe 8 or 10 would work, you'd just have to see how hard it is to compress.

I used the cans off the Jag speedo and tach, they are the same diameter as the early MGB gages (4" I think). So the lugs were already there. Probably farther away from the bezel than Carl's are. What his dash has for stops and detents are what I'm curious about, I imagine his spring to be a sort of flat wavy washer under the edge of the bezel but that's just a guess. Something behind the metal panel would do a better job of snugging the bezel down to the dash.

Jim

I now have a 72 dash thanks to Carl and Jim Watson, thank you very much guys,I will get pics put in when I get it all put together with my new gauges



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