Upgrading The Dash On The 1959 Chevy Belair
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- We have been on the search for this upgrade for quite some time. Finally the planets aligned and we were able to snag the parts needed. Follow along to see what we did to freshen up the dash.
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I found your video on my first search. I too have this clock sitting in a box for the longest time and I wanted to see what all I needed to do in order to remove the faux clock plate and install the real deal. Well done sir.
Glad it was helpful!
Nice 🙂
Reminds me of similar situation with my father's 1960 Bel Air
Yes, they are basically the same layout!
The Bel Air in Canada, was also called a Pontiac Laurentian, and not a wide tracking Catalina.
That’s a fun fact!
Great tutorial for me down the road! 👍🏻
Glad it was helpful!
My parents had a biscayne in that same color. The interior looks identical to the one they had.
I loved the green on green
@@LowTechGarage It's so weird seeing this and remembering it so clearly after 55 years..........................
This is awesome. Thanks for the help!
Glad it helped!
Hey I also found a loose wire behind the clock. It was never used so I think it’s for the clock option. It’s a grey wire! Hope it helps!
Thanks for the info!
The grey wires under the instrument cluster are for the instruments lights, through the dimmer . The clock wiring was a kit apart, that was optional for Bel Air and stock for Impalas. So, if the car didn’t come with factory clock (as Bel Airs did) the clock wiring had to be purchased apart or was part of the clock, that includes the tell tale light cluster light too.)
If you found a free gray wire loose pehaps it was for the De Luxe Heater cluster that was optional too and perhaps your car didn’t with a de luxe heater or may be it was for the automatic transmission selector light if your car was equipoed with manual transmission.
The original clocks had a red and grey wire with a plug that went into the fuse box on one end and had a plug that fit the brass stem on the back of the clock and bulb on the other. I have seen them on the Internet for sale. Also as soon as you plug a clock in it starts up with a buzz then you hear a soft tick tock sound. Why? These clocks are mechanical and have an electric contact that forces it to wind. It will buzz every 5 or 6 minutes. I had one of these and repaired it. It was painfully to watch you leave to check back on the clock since I knew it was not working from the work you did sorry on the non working clock. But I do respect your effort.
Thanks for sharing this knowledge. I have since sold the car but I am sure this will be useful for other owners!
Check the ground.
There's a site in how to service a '57 chevy clock on CZcams which would be similar to a '59. You can also update the innards to quartz while keeping the face original.
Thanks for sharing. I just sold the car recently to make room for a new ride in the fleet. I will be sharing the new car soon!
Hey man I’m getting a fox after all! A 1988 gt original Texas car that was manual but the motor it comes with is an automatic from a 89 fox. And boy am I excited lol!
Hey that’s awesome! Best of luck with the project. Stay in touch and let us know how it goes!
@@LowTechGarage yup have to pay my dad back :( until I can do anything and sell my Jeep it was 1000$ so my dad was like fine we’ll do it lol
A site called Old Car Alley here on CZcams just downloaded repairing a '59 Chevy Belair clock and looks identical to yours!
Awesome!
Are the turn signal bulbs in the speed gauge accesible or its internally mounted?
Do you also know the type of bulbs they take? Along with turn signal indicators at speedo gauge
On the back of the gauge.
@@LowTechGarage do you by chance what bulb type they are?
Totally agree ; I try not to cut into any original wiring. Keep it as original as possible.
Exactly!
STOP using the word basically!! Great video otherwise.
You are the visitor. How are you going to tell the content creator what to do? Lmak