Restored the instrument cluster for my ‘79 FJ40. I used a vinyl label kit from Gauge Marks. The kit is nice quality and easy to install.
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Great product and great customer service!
Looks great. You are lucky
Tried contacting him a couple months ago. No response.
Tried contacting him a couple months ago. No response.
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Call him. He said the website is a work in progress. Daniel was very helpful.
I did call. Left message.
Anyway, what paint did you use for the black and silver? That looks very close to the original
very SWEET !
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Black paint is Krylon satin black. Silver paint is Cruiser Corps pewter.
dmaddox
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Looks great! I just dredged through this myself recently. I was worried about a few things.
1. The pewter paint from CC wasn’t pewter at all but more of a dark gray metallic.
2. The vinyl kit used independently, leaves some original off-white or muted colors in stark contrast with the super white vinyl, as the kit is incredibly well designed yet way too white.
3. The CC pewter would then look off compared to the ash tray and glove box, so to have it all match you’d have to paint all three at the same time.
To address this, I used cool cruisers two part pewter, found as perfect of a plate I could find (oil/temp/amp/fuel) that had great letters and restored all three at the same time.
A hassle! Great job, this 79 turned out great.
1. The pewter paint from CC wasn’t pewter at all but more of a dark gray metallic.
2. The vinyl kit used independently, leaves some original off-white or muted colors in stark contrast with the super white vinyl, as the kit is incredibly well designed yet way too white.
3. The CC pewter would then look off compared to the ash tray and glove box, so to have it all match you’d have to paint all three at the same time.
To address this, I used cool cruisers two part pewter, found as perfect of a plate I could find (oil/temp/amp/fuel) that had great letters and restored all three at the same time.
A hassle! Great job, this 79 turned out great.
Looks excellent, thanks for posting this up
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For a neophyte looking at this, would you mind telling how many hours you have into the project?
