Dash pad removal
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Dash pad removal
My pad is old and cracked but I wanted to remove it to get to replacing the AM radio speaker. If it is in this bad of shape will I destroy the pad during removal? OR Is there another way to get to the speaker some other way?
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i think you get at the speaker from underneath. if you have to take the pad off make sure you get all the fasteners off. when you pull the dash and glove box there are some fasteners in the front. i missed a couple and ripped the studs off.
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The speaker comes from the bottom. Likely thru the glovebox hole.
The dashpad will come off after you remove the nuts from the studs from underneath. There is a row next to windshield, then another row up under front edge.
The dashpad will come off after you remove the nuts from the studs from underneath. There is a row next to windshield, then another row up under front edge.
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I took mine off a long while ago. You wouldn't believe the crap that accumulates underneath. I just remember it takes a lot of patience, To get mine off I took everything out that covered a hole in the dash (glove box, guages, radio) and then proceded to find and remove all the nuts that held it on. Another tip, make sure you don't 'yank' the dash pad off after you unbolt it, slowly lift it up and forward, if it doesn't come with a little force (if much of any at all), check to be sure you got all the nuts off. I missed a few and if I hadn't checked I probably would have had the same problem as marks69.
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I replaced my cracked one w/a better one in the Spring; the replacement had cracks between the speaker holes, so I just cut it open and bolted a 6x9 Boston Acoustics speaker cover I found in the yard over the hole. Looks more impressive, but the AM radio's 3 watts of sound doesn't seem more clear...wonder why?
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I took mine off my '71 and threw it away.....welded all the holes shot, filled the speaker grille with a chunk of 20ga. steel, then smoothed it all out and painted it....changed the looks of the whole interior!!!!!
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I just replaced my speaker about a year ago with one out of another bumpside...I accessed it thru the glovebox opening....If your dashpad is old, odds are your glove box lining is probably old and brittle as well and may fall apart if you remove it...The speaker is held on with a bracket, and I think you'd have a whale of a time to try and get a non-original speaker to retrofit under your dash...I think I also had to pull out my radio to get at the speaker....
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