[V8] Instrument cluster woes

[Ingo Rautenberg]

I never have, either.

To remove the dashpad you need to remove the two dashpad speaker  
grills, the top stearing column cover (may or may not require removal  
of steering wheel), removal of (left) outer vent,  (center) right  
vent, and (right) inner vent to access and remove the 4mm allen  
screws and don't forget  the one in the center defroster vent at the  
front windshield - can only be seen from outside the car. This is  
only if the dash pad has never been removed or was previously  
replaced by a perfectionist - which I apparently was when I'd finally  
done the IC fix a few years back)

Ingo mit V8 5 spd presently with 3 vents removed and sans dashpad...


On Apr 9, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Ed Kellock wrote:

> I don't recall having to remove any wood to pull the dashtop when I
> did mine a few years ago.
>
> Ed
>
> On 4/9/07, Tony and Lillie <tonyandlillie1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Fellow V8'ers,
>>
>> I also went through this with my car, and all is well. It only  
>> took four tries ;-) On the last one, with Ingo on the Phone  
>> (Thanks Ingo) I/we decided the best thing to do is resolder all of  
>> the pins form each board where they meet.
>>
>> In the interim, and after the second time of pulling the dash  
>> apart, I decided to leave it that way until the problem was  
>> permenantly solved. You can reinstall the wood trim seperately so  
>> you still have use of the vents. I know it doesn't look great,  
>> but, it's quite a pain to keep pulling and putting back together  
>> as well.
>>
>> Tony Hoffman
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