Jason found a new dash for his car in the junk yard.. and it is in great shape. since he has to do the heater core, we are going to do both tommorow.... so he will have heat and defrost that works again. We will take step by step photos of the swap, and post them to the forum, maybe they can get "stickied" so others can find the swap photos easier.... More later... probably at least on Wed. when I'm at work... I'll post the photos for something to do while I'm at work....
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What year/model of car are you talking about?
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It is a 1991, so the whole dash has to come out to replace it... (the dash) and we all know about the heater core!
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Nice weather today, (75 degrees, partly cloudy) so we have Jason's car in my back yard... He has to replace his heater core, so since you have to take the dash out to replace it, he went and found a new dash for his car from the junkyard, since his is in such bad shape... He has the old dash loose, unhooking everthing behind the dash right now, about to take the old one out...
The new dash is in really nice shape, so it will look good in his car.
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More photos:
At this point we started to worry maybe we were in over our heads....
New Dash
Old dash:
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It looks scary!~David~
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my car starts and it has AC. Yours doesn't start and it has no AC. Seems obvious to me.
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Almost back together... probably have to post pictures of the final product tommorow or the next day, it is now dark outside!!!
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holy balls.
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dash swap is nuts in these things.
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... and it should all work like magic and unicorns and stuff.
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The steering wheel looks like it could use a cover.'79 Continental Town Car
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The only thing that doesn't work after re-assembly is the 4 way flasher, and the lights for the A/C controls... probably bumped the bulb and broke the element.... 4 ways, maybe the flasher is loose.... or got bumped hard and it also went out.... other than that, it all works....
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4 ways work. The button was just stuck, and yes Johnunit. Holy Balls indeed.
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talk about a big job. what is your rouned up time on dash and heater core swap?
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Nine hours or so.....
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18 man hours then... since you had 2 guys working on it.
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Originally posted by gadget73
... and it should all work like magic and unicorns and stuff.
Originally posted by dmccaig
Overhead, some poor bastards are flying in airplanes.Comment
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