New dash for the truggy

[Andy J.]

I picked up this truggy about a month ago. It performs very well on the trail, but it definitely needs some love in the details. The wiring was completely basakwards, so I am in the process of rewiring the whole thing and building a new dash. The old dash is made of a nasty combination of plywood, aluminum, and fiberglass .

Old dash: (note: I already removed the passenger side part and the ammocan center console)

 

[Andy J.]

In the first pic, you can see the plywood/body filler combination along with the quality wiring that the PO did. Notice the top notch wire splicing and 10 ga (or possibly 8 ga?) wire that is powering the gauges.

In the second pic, you can see the construction layers There was plywood screwed to the bottom of the aluminum sheet. The heads were ground off of the screws and then it was fiberglassed, bondo'd, and Rhino lined.

 

[Andy J.]

Here you can see where the PO tried to weld the alum. sheet to the stock steel dash and about half of the crap I yanked out.

 

[Andy J.]

1st pic: dash almost ready for rebuild

2nd: we found out quickly on the first outing that there was no where for the passenger to hold on, so I added this...

3rd: new toy for the garage

I started the framing and dash layout, I just haven't taken any more pics. Now you are up-to-date. I only get to work on it a little each night after work, so be patient .

 

[Black Bear]

what kit are you using for the rewire?

 

[Andy J.]

The truggy had a painless switch panel (that I am going to reuse the switches from), but other than that I'm not using a kit. The wiring is really pretty basic. It's propane, so no EFI wiring or anything like that. Just a buss panel and a few relays.

 

[sharksanddanger]

Talk about some booty welds on that cage too right above the dash. I hope you didn't pay much for that thing.

 

[lugnut]

Looks like fun. Nice thing about doing your own wiring is you can look at a wire and know where it goes and what it does without having to trace it. Heah man ... ammo can consoles are cool. I had one back in the day.

 

[Rich]

Wow.. I'll give him points for effort.. that surely took alot of work!

And on the wiring, at least he didn't recycle some stock wiring from the donor vehicle!

 

[Cperry]

at least that 8 guage could carry any load thrown at it that was alot of wire too, usefull for many projects.

 

[Andy J.]

Talk about some booty welds on that cage too right above the dash. I hope you didn't pay much for that thing.

I was waiting for someone to catch it. The PO did all of the welding on the front half of the exo, and as you can see, it is not the prettiest thing you have ever seen. It is solid, but not pretty .

One thing that bothered me about the wiring is that nothing was fused . Anyways, I made some progress this weekend, but I forgot to take pics. My work is sending me to Missouri until thursday, so I will post them up when I get back.