Ignition trim - 308

where did you get it? sorry can't help with install

 

You are on the right track, relation to the switch face is totally variable.
The finish result definitely "sticks out"...

As I was getting to do the job, myself (unobtainium Supply kit), I was personally wondering if the dash will "flex" enough to get the back ring over the switch itself, as removing the lock cylinder/steering lock rod is "no small job"...

Carefully flex the dash forward and see if you can get the receiver ring in place.
Once that is there, behind the dash, as you see the "Keeper rods" have serrated teeth.
As in many Ferrari things, "gently tight" is the proper fit, of the two pieces.

It should collapse the slight layer of dash padding (like the door switches into the arm rest) and just "hold together"
HTH

 

A lot of them, that broke, were just "Glued back on" with black Permatex.
To give you an idea..... of "shrug shoulders" assembly

 

After reading again, if "snug at the top" of the ring leaves a gap at the bottom, you need to peel the dash and add backing foam.
Myself I would "split the difference"..

As said above, the top of the ring is usually behind the face of the switch, FWIW
The dash of course was a fiberglass part so It could warp, vary, and be pretty non consistent, esp. if recovered at some point.

 

My '78 was missing it to, either before or after I tore the whole interior apart. I bought a new ring but I never did get around to installing it. I probably sold it with all the other spare parts I had.

 

Sorry meant to say that lower section of dash has a couple small bolts right above it somewhere if I'm remebering right. My plan was to loosen or pull those to try getting the dash out far enough to get the backing ring on. Mine didn't have the cowl under the column though either.

 

An original part would have been rare and expensive.....and probably brittle!

Mine has been missing years, as the glued part fell off during some key trauma.....

 

That is what moved it down my list....you can pull the switch off the lock, but to get the lock out we had to pull the column lock assembly.

That's a big job..
I mean we did it, the Body Shop had snapped the key off, flush....so it was "gun to the head" time..

A jake leg would cut the ring, glue it, whatever.
JRV was old school, there was only "The right way"...

 

Not the steering column.

The key switch itself and a locking rod that inserts to the column.
Maybe google the part and you will see.
Hugely expensive, NLA new, so you have to work with what you have!!

Big effort for a trim grommet!!