Once again, we have to thank our friends at the Studebaker Forum for helping us make a gauge panel out of a glove box door. Actually, we have many people to thank. G.D. (aka Bridgegaurd), for supplying the glove box without too much protest (tough to do when you're in Guam). Lucky, for helping John with body work on the door (it had a slight dent that needed to be taken out). Sammy, who spent most of his day in the garage with us helping us take on a task we thought we would have to pay somebody to do (We did hear something about John having a lot of sanding to do on Sammy's Bronco!).
After Tracy laid out the circles to perfection, we drilled a small pilot hole.
Then, using two and three inch hole saws, we cut out the holes for the gauges to sit in.
Here are the results. If it wasn't for Sammy, who had the right equipment and the patience to work with us, we would have never made this far. The man does know how to make something from nothing.
Here, John is trying to de-burr the edges and trying to keep the circles round. Let's just say it got to a point that we just had to laugh about it.
Beside the need to modernize our system from a 6-volt/12-volt hodge-podge system with non-working gauges, we are also attempting to clean up the wiring behind the dash. This is a great start.
The result is wonderful! We couldn't be happier. Thanks to all of our friends and family, our vision that we have for our truck is starting to become a reality. Mmmmmm...think we should chop the top? Na, we would do that to this old girl. (Besides, John's head hits the roof as it is!)
Once again, we have to thank our friends at the Studebaker Forum for helping us make a gauge panel out of a glove box door. Actually, we have many people to thank. G.D. (aka Bridgegaurd), for supplying the glove box without too much protest (tough to do when you're in Guam). Lucky, for helping John with body work on the door (it had a slight dent that needed to be taken out). Sammy, who spent most of his day in the garage with us helping us take on a task we thought we would have to pay somebody to do (We did hear something about John having a lot of sanding to do on Sammy's Bronco!).
After Tracy laid out the circles to perfection, we drilled a small pilot hole.
Then, using two and three inch hole saws, we cut out the holes for the gauges to sit in. 
Here are the results. If it wasn't for Sammy, who had the right equipment and the patience to work with us, we would have never made this far. The man does know how to make something from nothing.
Here, John is trying to de-burr the edges and trying to keep the circles round. Let's just say it got to a point that we just had to laugh about it.
Beside the need to modernize our system from a 6-volt/12-volt hodge-podge system with non-working gauges, we are also attempting to clean up the wiring behind the dash. This is a great start.
The result is wonderful! We couldn't be happier. Thanks to all of our friends and family, our vision that we have for our truck is starting to become a reality. Mmmmmm...think we should chop the top? Na, we would do that to this old girl. (Besides, John's head hits the roof as it is!)
