{"id":39,"date":"2024-10-01T03:44:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T03:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2025-12-01T23:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:45:22","slug":"day-3-dash-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Dash wiring harness and Dash removal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here we go. No going back now. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It starts right away. The black thing on its side is the center gauge cluster housing. This has been suspect for some time but when I took it out it cracked in half. The housing was an unexpected $450. More on that later dammit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spaghetti<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was another turning point. I didn\u2019t expect to restore the entire dash. It was clear at this point the top dash pad, center console, both A-arms, and passenger dash pad come out. Speakers and kick panels too. You can\u2019t just take them out and put them back in without touching up the paint on them. Half the mounting screws were correct. All of the mounting brackets were rusted, old, and bent to shit. All needed to be replaced. Paint and screws – $100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I can see clearly now the dash is gone. Now that we\u2019re here, I see many more unexpected hours of effort. I can\u2019t just leave the speakers like that. Check out that metal rectangle doohickey in the center of the picture. That\u2019s the mounting bracket for the heater and vent controls. It\u2019s connected to four different drive-by-wire connections for the vents. Not easy to disassemble. All of that needs to be taken out and cleaned up. The giant black box in the top right, with the yellow and blue wires over it? That\u2019s the heater box and that all comes out. Everything in that picture needs to come out. Lots more effort added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Easy to get to<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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No problems here<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I\u2019m up to date on my tetanus shot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pops right out of there<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ah shit. There\u2019s more rust than I like to see around that windshield. That ended up taking me about 3 hours of sanding, prepping\/rust proofing, and painting to get back to acceptable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another gotcha is that this wiring harness feeds all the way to the center console. Lots of individual connections in there, it\u2019s going to be tough going back together. The pictures below show all these cables. Also check it out, the heater box is gone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dash is out. Dash wiring harness is out. Driver and Passenger dash pads out, center console out. Speakers, heater brackets and wires, heater box. It\u2019s all out. No mo dash. The leftovers are the vacuum lines and the steering column. There\u2019s no way I need to replace that, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here we go. No going back now. It starts right away. The black thing on its side is the center gauge cluster housing. This has been suspect for some time but when I took it out it cracked in half. The housing was an unexpected $450. More on that later dammit. Spaghetti This was another…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vette-rebuild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}