This is as common as dirt. The black plastic in this area seems to crumble with age. I think it is because that part of the dash sits high enough to get a lot of direct sunlight and the heat over the years bakes the plastic inside. The black plastic lower in the dash seems to last forever. Don't worry about about it. I use Goop to hold speedos, clocks, and tachs whose mounting holes have broken away. Did one yesterday. Mark > Gary Stearns wrote: > > Help! The instrument panel in our '88 is slowly fracturing itself > into dust. Last spring, just small cracks around the screws that hold > it down. Then the screw holes completely broke off. After > fabricating clips to replace the broken holes, now the panel is > fracturing behind the speedometer. I have little shards of plastic > falling out all the time. I suspect that simple body flex is the > basic culprit, slightly moving the dashboard and inst. panel (I do > hear a lot of creaking and groaning up there on uneven roads). Anyone > else experience this? Should I be worried about the body itself? I > always thought that the basic stucture was real rugged. Now I am > wondering. > > Gary |
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