Well, if the dash does have to come off, it's really not that big of  
deal.  After you've done it once, you'll not be feeling so challenged  
again.  After the first time, 2 hours tops to R&R. And it is an  
excellent time to clean up the other little things that are so much  
easier to do with it out of the way. (Clean up stereo wiring, lube  
heater cables, replace the wobbly accessory power outlet (cigar  
lighter) install headlight relays, etc, etc, etc.)

To remove, remove instrument cluster, heater control levers, unplug  
heater fan switches, remove heater control fascia, remove two screws  
that hold control levers to dash and one through the instrument  
cluster cutout, pull stereo, unplug above mentioned accessory outlet,  
unhook glove box retaining strap, pull the 4 screws on the ends and  
the five or six small sheet metal screws under windshield, the  
steering column cover and remove the top 2 column retaining bolts  
(Security fasteners. Need small Vise-Grips� to remove and a pair of 8  
mm x 1.25 x 25mm bolts to replace.) Loosen two lower column retaining  
bolts and pull it out.

There's a video out there, but that's the Cliff's Notes of the  
operation.  Installation is, as they say, the reverse of removal.

Jim

On May 17, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Jim Felder wrote:

> *groan* I was afraid of that.