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Crestliner CX 1754 Project
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<blockquote data-quote="Transplant" data-source="post: 492617" data-attributes="member: 23849"><p>Progress will be slow over the winter months especially but I had some nice days and got a bit done over the past week. Dash came out and got completely disassembled, I ended up repairing some cracked plastic parts and painting everything since the plastic is far too damaged from years of sun to bring it back. I spent some time troubleshooting gauges, I can confirm that the fuel gauge and Speedo work, the rest currently do not. Replacement gauges aren’t cheap and not that important so I’ll at least clean them up and pretend like their functional. I can also confirm the radio is shot, that’s something I can deal with down the road since it’s a fishing boat, not a party boat. I have all new switches and a new horn on order, once those come in I’ll get the top part of the dash all put back together. Carpet is being ordered today, going with a basic grey 16 ounce marine carpet since there’s no such thing as cheap marine carpet in Canada but I still want a relatively good product so I don’t have to do this again in 2 years. Next on my list is to clean up glue residue from the lower dash pieces and start pulling hatch covers to get them in the shed for when carpet arrives. I have heat out there so I can hopefully make some progress on the nicer days. Before, during and after photos below.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Transplant, post: 492617, member: 23849"] Progress will be slow over the winter months especially but I had some nice days and got a bit done over the past week. Dash came out and got completely disassembled, I ended up repairing some cracked plastic parts and painting everything since the plastic is far too damaged from years of sun to bring it back. I spent some time troubleshooting gauges, I can confirm that the fuel gauge and Speedo work, the rest currently do not. Replacement gauges aren’t cheap and not that important so I’ll at least clean them up and pretend like their functional. I can also confirm the radio is shot, that’s something I can deal with down the road since it’s a fishing boat, not a party boat. I have all new switches and a new horn on order, once those come in I’ll get the top part of the dash all put back together. Carpet is being ordered today, going with a basic grey 16 ounce marine carpet since there’s no such thing as cheap marine carpet in Canada but I still want a relatively good product so I don’t have to do this again in 2 years. Next on my list is to clean up glue residue from the lower dash pieces and start pulling hatch covers to get them in the shed for when carpet arrives. I have heat out there so I can hopefully make some progress on the nicer days. Before, during and after photos below. [/QUOTE]
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