Dash board mounting

[Dave Dyer]

Hi,
I'm just about to fit the Dash board (Fascia?) but on the passenger side, should there be a metal rail running across (in front of the glove box) or does the plastic dash just screw to a bracket?
Its just I have the metal 'rail' but not sure if its needed!

Cheers,
Dave

[Beans]

Depends what model year your car is.
Early cars had a slightly different dash assembly ...



Notice the extra mounting points underneath the glove box



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[dursleyman]

Couple of pictures of my old car I'm breaking which might help. Showing what is left after the plastic dash is removed.




Here is the dash fixing bracket shown.



And the drivers side



Russ

1981 TR7 Sprint DHC
Dursley
UK

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[Dave Dyer]

Thanks Chaps,
I seem to think this metal rail I have is from an early car, you say the Dash changed so I need to look at that really.

Russ, only one picture is showing? But it does show the bracket on the right of the photo.

I did take photos of when I removed it, but as that was 20 years ago, they won't be on my computer but on film buried in the attic!

Dave

[dursleyman]

Dave, just re-done the photo links and checked. They seem OK now - but then they did when I checked them first time. Just love Photobucket!

There were no signs of any other supports, the car is a 1980 DHC.

Russ

1981 TR7 Sprint DHC
Dursley
UK

http://tr7russ.blogspot.co.uk/