taking out the wood grain dash on an 87' 2001

hey Kevin happy B-day

grose wrote: no power to the dash problem fixed. after a lot of testing, all it took was unplugging the wiring harness on the back of the engine an plugging it back in. just a loose connection. unplugged again and took a small screwdriver into the female end and closed them up just a little to get a tighter fit and we're good to go.

Greg,
I highly recommend to go after this connector again in fact, any connectors and terminals. The last one I opened up was on my Tique due to a voltage drop issue. I found nothing but green (copper oxide) inside. By cleaning all the plugs and the connections up, I eliminated 1.3 volts of power drop. Get inside each female socket with some "scotch brite" rolled up or use a small wire brush on a Dremel tool until all the corrosion is gone. Then and very important is to use dielectric grease when you put them back together. I have seen these plugs literally burnt up due to corrosion/resistance and the resulting heat.

no power to the dash problem fixed. after a lot of testing, all it took was unplugging the wiring harness on the back of the engine an plugging it back in. just a loose connection. unplugged again and took a small screwdriver into the female end and closed them up just a little to get a tighter fit and we're good to go. thanks for the replies.

horkn wrote: If the "wood" was real i could see leaving it in place. Since it is a sticker of wood grain and not even wood, I say make it look better by doing anything but fake wood grain. I plan on taking my fake wood grain instrument panel off and either going with carbon fiber (fake CF is fine LOL) or something else. On a martinique there are a lot of gauges that need to come off in order to do this though. if I didn't have any running issues with my boat, I would have taken that fake woodgrain off as well.

Going non original??

Do you have a volt meter?

thanks chris i will check to see if they work. btw david i am just changing it to black. the wood grain was coming off and i hate cheap looking wood grain. i will post some new pics of the entire boat once i get everything put back together. i had all new upholstrey, buffed, and all new decals done. so far it looks great.

Looked at mine and I have no idea what holds those little guys in. What do you plan to replace the dash with?

i want to know if anyone knows how to get the red indicator lights apart to take out the wood grain plastic piece directly in front of the steering wheel? they are right above the fuse type buttons. i want to get that piece redone, because the wood grain is coming off and i just hate cheap looking wood grain. call me crazy!