No sawsall or axe, just basic hand tools and a fair amount of experience
with Vanagons including dash removals. I can see why those who charge
book rate $$$ for these kinds of jobs might consider it stupid to
discuss how quickly they can be done in practice. Since I don't work on
cars for money it does not bother me when people hear that some jobs may
not be as bad as advertised. How many hours do you normally quote to R+R
the dash, George?

Of course putting it back is a slower process. The heater r+r and
rebuild is another can of worms entirely. Sometimes those philips head
screws that hold it to the body are rusted into place. I am not pulling
the heater though, just the dash. The purpose of this is to allow the
body shop better access to the painted areas up front. The front half of
the stretch is brown and the back half is white. The whole thing is
going to be white soon and I want the exposed brown painted areas inside
to be white also.

Mark

Doug Alcock wrote:
>
> So what's your secret ---- a sawzall????
>
> Doug
>
> >Ok, it is out and sitting on my driveway. Just under 16 minutes from a
> >running, fully connected, and functional dash to completely out. There
> >was no radio installed but everything else was normal.
> >
> >Mark
> >