AE85/6 Dash

[coleman]

ok i am pulling mine out of my 85 and putting into my panda.
anyone done this?
where is best to start??

will i end up with a big bucket of screws that i dont know where to put them?

[Xyrath 86]

I heard you have to take out the windscreen to get it out, not sure if its true but yeh.

[Shotgun]

It's easier than it looks and of course you don't have to pull the windscreen out. Take all the lower parts off (glovebox and everything at that level) then work your way up. It's all screws and clips you have to fight against, fewer than you'd think. Once it's off look out for the steel crossmember that runs through it all because the back of it is freakin sharp. I sliced my hand pretty badly on it.

[matt dunn]

It's easier than it looks .

Yes you do not need to take out the screen.

Will come out not to bad and you wont even have to remove the heater box etc.

[coleman]

sweet, sounds like a saturday afternoon job in the sun next week,

cheers,

[spencer]

dude look out for the bolt behind the clock surround and the one behind the small vent on the passenger side can be a pain if you try pull it off with those still there. It is pretty straight forward pulled a few out recently

[coleman]

cheers,

i pulled the lil surround around the clock out and it snapped, f*ck! very brittle plastic aye, do you have a spare one at all?

[spencer]

na sorry I broke my spare aswell gotta be carefull with them

[coleman]

ive got those 2 bolts in behind the clock and the vent on the left, i htink i got all others, but still not moving out.

do i need to pull off the part that surrounds the speedo first? or does that come with it?

[mike86ze]

strip everthing that atached to it. glove/b, centre dash, speedo cluster and all its surround. theres a bar that runs behind the dash. most of it is bolted to tabs that come off this bar so follow the bar from one end to the other taking off all the bolts along the way. other hiden around too i think.

that clock surround is a prick.
anyone have a solution to nicely filling the gap left behind?

[coleman]

the main problem is the speedo surround, i cant seem to get it of, looked for all the screws i can, but can seem to find any more, how much brut force should i put on it to pull it off? or am i missing something?

[matt dunn]

the main problem is the speedo surround, i cant seem to get it of, looked for all the screws i can, but can seem to find any more, how much brut force should i put on it to pull it off? or am i missing something?

Grab the wiper and headlight knobs and just pull them off.
Two large plastic nuts behind them.

Matt

[coleman]

the main problem is the speedo surround, i cant seem to get it of, looked for all the screws i can, but can seem to find any more, how much brut force should i put on it to pull it off? or am i missing something?

Grab the wiper and headlight knobs and just pull them off.
Two large plastic nuts behind them.

Matt

thanks mate, i hope i dont brake them in the process!!