[Mgs] dashboard install

[Max Heim]

I’m not familiar with the MGA, but with my steel dash MGB, I installed the naked dash first.

It’s not that hard to install the switches and gauges into the dash panel, but it IS hard to hook up the wires, etc. blindly from under the dash. For example, it may be easier to hook up the tach and the dash lamps with the speedometer out, so you can reach in the big hole. And since the switches install from the back, it’s easier to hook the loose switch up to the harness, then poke it through the dash, compared to trying to hook up the blade connectors blindly, or trying to peer up while laying on the floor.


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Max Heim
'66 MGB

> On Apr 17, 2020, at 5:02 PM, dave via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net> wrote:
> 
> 1959 MGA with an MGB engine.  I am pretty sure it was once a 1500
>  
> We took the body apart and everything off.  Am finishing up the chassis and looking forward (and dreading) putting it all back together
>  
> My question – should I build the dashboard with the gauges and switches before mating it to the body, or put it all in after?
>  
> Seems to me the first choice makes more sense.  
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