Help with Dash Vinyl

I'm working on finishing the dash, putting down the pad and the the vinyl over that.

The basic instructions I have found say to just use super 90 and "smooth it out", but I'm sure there are tricks to this.

Has anyone does this that would be will to share there good and bad experiences. I remember hearing someone say on this site "it was a nail biter".

I was thinking about trying to do it one section at a time instead of trying to wrestle with a huge pice of vinyl with stick stuff on the back.

Dale , Some of those spray adhesives are slower drying than others. So just make sure you get a slow drying one ,that way you can continue to reposition the vinyl as you go. TOM

Sorry Chris , you are not Dale. I have really enjoyed the chronicle of your build .Thank you for all the effort you put into it. I hope you enjoy your new ride!!! TOM

I use the 3M super 90, lightly scuff the area to be glued for a good bite, then mask off twice the area of the speedster you think you will need to protect.
I set the forward edge of the vinyl 3/8" of an inch under the windshield frame bottom then pop rivet the frame into the pre- measured location the cowl.
Run a hair drier over the entire piece to soften the vinyl so it can be worked easily. ( Doing this out in the sun causes the vinyl to become too soft and will stretch as you work it.)
Spray both the dash and the vinyl being careful not to saturate the vinyl with the adhesive, a light coat on the vinly is better than a heavy coat.
Working the vinyl from the windshield frame, start on the passenger half of the dash and glue it into place, you'll find that as you work the vinyl around the concave sides of the dash brow, it will tend to lift from the dash, heat this area of the vinyl with the hair drier and quickly (before it cools) run a piece of tape along either side of the dash brow securing the tape on the cowl area and to the lower face of the dash, run the hair drier lightly across this section to help it set up faster.

Thanks for the tips Alan. My windshield thing was already in place (put there by Vintage so they could ship it all up to me in the rain last December) so I went about it a little different.

It was a little bit of a nail biter, but not too bad. I had already masked off the entire speedster with some plastic I had and made a "dental dam" around the dash.

Then sprayed away with the Super 90. In the end it came out OK for a first time dash. A couple of wrinkles around the concave section you talked about. Tape helped a bit, bit it was already past the point of no return once I got everything in place. Hair drier helped a bit too.

Unfortunatly I did not get any pictures taken as my wife has been gone all week and has the camera with her. I had a free night to work in the car so I just went for it.

Now on to carpet...

I used Alan's directions, and it worked like a champ. I did find one thing that helped also. You can buy vinyl that stretches 4 ways from an auto interior supply store. That more stretchable vinyl was a bit more expensive, but made it so much easier and it laid really well over the instrument brow.

I bought a can of the Super 90 ($12) and the stuff didn't work worth crap! It sprayed out like silly-string, and I never could get it to stick. I guess a different batch of luck was used with my experience. I used standard viscocity DAP contact adhesive, and it worked like a champ; no masking was required since it's brush on. And, as an added benefit, it's toxic when used in confined spaces - so who cares about the wrinkles!! - Just kidding; you do have to watch the fumes...but no issues with wrinkles. Used it on the carpet and vinyl.