How to; Overhead console recover.

[Darkrider]

Oops! Forgot to give you credit for that! Lol!

its all good

 

[Rewind]

Get a friend to help you out. Actually seeing it done would make it alot easier to do (for me at least).

 

[sewlow]

Get a friend to help you out. Actually seeing it done would make it alot easier to do (for me at least).

I agree. Seeing stuff done in real time does make things easier. It'll have to wait though. I'm swamped in the shop right now.

 

[Darkrider]

Lmk when you are able to take on doing another O/H console. Im thinking im going to add one to my K3500 as well.

 

[sewlow]

Yea, mon! But they way things are right now, it'll probably be the springtime.

 

[Darkrider]

Yea, mon! But they way things are right now, it'll probably be the springtime.

Thanks to the new addition to the fleet it may take my wallet that long to recover! lol

 

[cool_as_crap]

Thanks for the great info sealow!
I'm about to recover my o/h console but i've ran into an issue: I don't have the 10 philips head screws to remove, I have what looks like 10 plastic rivets.
Do I need to drill these out? Any advice?

 

[cool_as_crap]

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[sewlow]

I'd drill the heads off. When you get the 2 pieces apart, the pins left over from those fasteners can pulled out. Hopefully they're not glued!
If so, cut them off level & carefully drill out the holes for some screws. Not too big of screws though. That plastic splits easily.

 

[cool_as_crap]

Done! It came out pretty well. All I had to do was cut the heads off btw, there were no pins and I was able to screw it down from screws from another o/h console. I cut the corners a little close but shouldn't be too noticeable.
My burgundy to black/gray interior project is coming along nicely, mostly thanks to all your awesome threads sealow!