Heater hoses, dash pad

[Steve's Classic Cars]

We are restoring a 66 Tiger and need some help. Does anyone have a diagram, clear picture or drawing of the heater hose routing and heater control valve for the v8 tiger?? (Also) It appears that we are missing a filler strip on the top of the dash area, is there a filler that goes under the top edge of the vinyl dash pad and goes against the wood dash to fill this area especially at the corners?? all help welcome

 

[michael-king]

The best thing for the heater hoses routing are the priod road test pictures of the engine bay or use the owrkshop manual. Just make sure its for the correct style, a 66 should use the later heater valve that clamps onto the scuttle brace stay.

As for the dash, there are vynil covered finishers on the sides and flat coverred [arts that mount under the dash at the underside of the pad.. these are not available repro to mu knowledge.. but not hard to make.

 

[0neoffive]

Play with it

We are restoring a 66 Tiger and need some help. Does anyone have a diagram, clear picture or drawing of the heater hose routing and heater control valve for the v8 tiger?? (Also) It appears that we are missing a filler strip on the top of the dash area, is there a filler that goes under the top edge of the vinyl dash pad and goes against the wood dash to fill this area especially at the corners?? all help welcome

The correct molded firewall heat hoses are available from Rick at SS. I've also seen the heater valve show up in supply shops, so it is out there. The OEM clamping bracket pops up on E-bay from time-to-time and somewhere in the barnz we probably have a couple. Most of us have several photos that show various ways a routing the plumbing. Some of it may even be correct.
As to the dash, I normally shim the pad's bottom wrap a bit with soft rubber to provide "crush" when the dash slides in. You will still need to trim the corners; be creative.

 

[grelley]

Dash Pad

I recently had the same problem with the underside of the dash pad. I got some thin aluminium sheet and cut it to suit. It pushes in above the wooden dash. I also did the two corner sections the same way and held it in place with black self tapping screws. I painted the aluminium with Harley Davidson black crackle finish and am quite happy with the result.
Grelley