Remove and replace dash pad - The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

HatGuy · 10-23-2003, 07:57 PM

Can someone tell me how to do this.
Please

pound41 · 10-23-2003, 08:45 PM

Pull your glove box out. If you already have a new dash pad replacement you will see the threaded pegs that hold it in place. This will give you a good idea of where they are. Start undoing the nuts. Work your way across. Depending on how nimble you are you might have to pull the radio and the guages. It has those thin self cutting nuts like what some emblems have so you will need to get square on them. Pretty simple hope this helps

HatGuy · 10-23-2003, 10:30 PM

Thanks Pound41

HatGuy · 10-25-2003, 03:58 AM

any other advice?
anyone?

3wbdriver · 10-26-2003, 11:26 AM

Wish I could help, but i gotta do the same thing. Email me with results. Think of it as a courtesy to an exiled fellow Texan. I call Flower Mound home.

**Yukon Jack** · 10-27-2003, 03:47 PM

Sure helps to have the gauge bezel out too. They couldn't make them more difficult to get to!

2wdBlazer · 10-27-2003, 04:06 PM

I had to pull the Golve box, dash bezel & Light switch. Radio would be helpful to remove.

**SS55** · 11-11-2003, 02:58 AM

Everbody has probably already got all of this dash pad business figured out but here's my tid bits of info.

If I recall correctly, there are four phillips head screws going through the dash pad into j-nuts on the lower side of the dash pad. On the firewall side there are nuts threaded onto the studs that are protruding through the dash sheetmetal from the pad. I do not remember the qty, but at least five. A couple of them are really hard to get to. The ones on the ends of the pad and the one by the wiper switch come to mind.

Anyway, hope some of this helped.

bouncytruck · 11-11-2003, 01:25 PM

Like everyone else said, pull the cluster and glove box. I'm sure it will help to pull the radio, but I can't speak from experience on that since I don't have a radio (just a big hole thanks to a PO). It's also a good time to make sure all your wiring under the dash is nice and pretty too.

10-23-2003, 07:57 PM	#1
HatGuy Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Fort Worth Texas Posts: 275	Remove and replace dash pad Can someone tell me how to do this. Please Attached Images __________________ Joe Peters the HatGuy 72' K5 Highlander My Daily Driver http://www.pbhats.com/BLAZER/index.html

10-23-2003, 10:30 PM	#3
HatGuy Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Fort Worth Texas Posts: 275	Thanks Pound41 __________________ Joe Peters the HatGuy 72' K5 Highlander My Daily Driver http://www.pbhats.com/BLAZER/index.html

10-25-2003, 03:58 AM	#4
HatGuy Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Fort Worth Texas Posts: 275	any other advice? anyone? Attached Images __________________ Joe Peters the HatGuy 72' K5 Highlander My Daily Driver http://www.pbhats.com/BLAZER/index.html

10-26-2003, 11:26 AM	#5
3wbdriver Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: West Central Louisiana Posts: 82	Wish I could help, but i gotta do the same thing. Email me with results. Think of it as a courtesy to an exiled fellow Texan. I call Flower Mound home. __________________ '72 Blazer, 4WD, 350/4 spd. Affectionately known as "Da Beast" '04 Silverado (new daily driver) '00 Intrepid (wife's ride) It's a BLAZER dude! No options, no emblems, no a/c, no fancy shmancy. It's a BLAZER....

10-27-2003, 03:47 PM	#6
Yukon Jack Post Whore Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Rose Hill, KS, USA Posts: 12,686	Sure helps to have the gauge bezel out too. They couldn't make them more difficult to get to! __________________ 1970 Blazer with a 400 sbc and 4" lift 1980 Pontiac Trans Am, 455 Oldsmobile 2012 Kawasaki Concours 14

10-23-2003, 08:45 PM	#2
pound41 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Northern Virginia Posts: 1,268	Pull your glove box out. If you already have a new dash pad replacement you will see the threaded pegs that hold it in place. This will give you a good idea of where they are. Start undoing the nuts. Work your way across. Depending on how nimble you are you might have to pull the radio and the guages. It has those thin self cutting nuts like what some emblems have so you will need to get square on them. Pretty simple hope this helps

10-27-2003, 04:06 PM	#7
2wdBlazer The Blazer King Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Valrico, Fl (Tampa) Posts: 1,212	I had to pull the Golve box, dash bezel & Light switch. Radio would be helpful to remove. __________________ 72 2wd Blazer. Its the superbichinest, megacoolinest, superflowinest.

11-11-2003, 02:58 AM	#8
SS55 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 62	Everbody has probably already got all of this dash pad business figured out but here's my tid bits of info. If I recall correctly, there are four phillips head screws going through the dash pad into j-nuts on the lower side of the dash pad. On the firewall side there are nuts threaded onto the studs that are protruding through the dash sheetmetal from the pad. I do not remember the qty, but at least five. A couple of them are really hard to get to. The ones on the ends of the pad and the one by the wiper switch come to mind. Anyway, hope some of this helped. __________________ Be wary of the light at the end of the tunnel....It might be a gorilla holding a flashlight! 71 Blazer, ex-4WD...Bought it that way 55 GMC 55 Belair 2dr HT 67 El Camino

11-11-2003, 01:25 PM	#9
bouncytruck SKINNY TIRES RULE! Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Bothell, WA Posts: 11,038	Like everyone else said, pull the cluster and glove box. I'm sure it will help to pull the radio, but I can't speak from experience on that since I don't have a radio (just a big hole thanks to a PO). It's also a good time to make sure all your wiring under the dash is nice and pretty too. __________________ bouncytruck 1972 K5 The Hauler 1994 K1500 Suburban The Daily2010 Kia Soul Wife's Ride2014 Fiat 500L



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