Those dental picks are the key. I picked up a set when I wrapped my wheel. Like yourself, I was surprised how much slack was in the thread I thought was tight.
Finally got around to installing the steering wheel wrap. Used the baseball stitch. Once I got the hang of it, it went pretty smoothly. I would suggest getting a pick to help tighten the threads as you go along. I picked up a 4 piece pick set at Harbor Freight.
Also installed a set of...
Do you have any of that cut-off dash pad left. You might be able to grind/sand down the inside guts of it where you just have maybe a 1/16 thinck of the front finished portion. Then glue/epoxy that to the unfinished side piece?
If you're dealing with teens, old is late 30's early 40's. Used to be in a morning, masters swim group at the local high school. We were all early 40's. We'd all shower and get ready for work in the locker room. Once school started the kids would come in first thing, while we were still in...
Got it fixed. Everything looked good once I got it apart. At first I though the barrel connector had rubbed the copper positive track from the pin, along the back of the cluster board to the light hole. Looks like it had been rubbing on it but was hard to tell. Stuck a small file in the #8...