How do you remove a vn dashboard

[91vn]

I have a big problem. My heater box is stuffed and only blows cold air. i need to replace the heater box but i need to get the whole dash out. has anyone done this or could any one from SA come up and help me? i have no idea what to do and i reley need help. I will pay you if you come and help me!! ( im that desparate)

[Morton]

Do you know it's the heater core that's blocked? It could be the heater tap. The tap can appear to open and close from the outside, but the plate inside could have snapped off the spindle, and be jammed against the tap housing.

If you need to take the climate control out, it's a full two days' work to remove and reinstall, I've done it to mine:

[91vn]

na its no that i have broken the flap the makes it hot or cold and in trying to remove the bottom part of the heater bos i have damaged it so i kinda need an new box. mainly ant to know how to get the dash out. Cheers

[Morton]

Remove in roughly this order:

centre console
radio surround
radio
climate controls
steering wheel
steering column
side vents
speaker grilles
glovebox
fuse panel
kick panels
driver's seat

Then undo the screws along the top edge of the crash pad, and remove the demister vent cover
Unplug all wiring
Undo all bolts retaining crashpad unit to the subframe down each side, and in the centre
Undo two bolts in the engine bay holding the crashpad on
Undo centre bolt up the top inside the car, holding the crashpad on
Remove crashpad, and lay it down where the driver's seat would be

Remove all screws, wires, hoses and vacuum lines retaining the climate control system and pull it out!

Without meaning to insult your intelligence - if you have no idea where to start, chances are you're not quite up to it. Take a look at my pics and ask yourself if that's something you really want to do. I hated it

Once you've removed the climate control system, disassembling it to fix the problem is another whole kettle of fish, and can take half a day to pull down and rebuild on its own.

[91vn]

yeah looks pretty big but im stuck to doing now as the heater box has aa smashed bottom half. i am goin to the wreckers on the weekend to buy a new heater box. then i have to tackle getting the dash out cheers for the help!

[Morton]

There IS a shortcut you can do... majorly dodgy though.

Get access to the driver's side of the heater core by removing radio surround and centre facia.

Hacksaw the hoses off at the core, and pull the core out sideways (nothing holds it in, and the long tube lengths are screwed in halfway up)

Then hacksaw the NEW core tubes roughly 2" from the bottom, remove a 2" chunk from each, and replace that section with rubber hose and hose clamps. This then allows you to slide the new core in sideways, and then slip the vertical tubes into place, and slide them back down over the hoses. Done.

[greenfoam]

That sounds much better :P

[88GreenVN]

But that's for a core replacement. Sound like the plastic box is broken....

Dash out is the only answer.

[91vn]

Yeah i already got the heater core out and its not blocked. i know it may sound like im going on abou it but i realy think i need to get the box its self out and relace it. the bottom of it is smashed beyond repair. getting the box isnt the hard bit for me its gettin the thing out and then the new one back in....

[88GreenVN]

there is 3 screws from the fire wall side to get to. If you get the replacement box first you will see the few screws up under the dash pad.

[pjdm1980]

That doesn't look like any fun at all!!!!!!!
And defiantly not a job for a amateur, GULP!

[nothing]

Done this to my SS just now. lol, I am amatuer as, and i really have no idea what i'm doing, but i'm learning as i go along haha, I am fairly hopeful of getting it all back together properly, one thing i did do is forget to take the steering wheel off, LOL. But ehh. Looks very messy and scary. I just wish i could locate a nice clean unbroken dash, mine is nice and clean but, it has 2 bubbles in the vinyl from factory, and lots of the little bits where the screws screw into are broken off, so it kinda makes it all floppy around the wiper and cruise control blocks. I'll post up some pics when i get a chance.