Does that one have screws up from the bottom below the lip?
Also, is it like the later years with a stud at each end that is tapered, pokes through a spring type nut? I am going by memory but I have taken some of these off in yards to get reverbs, radios, etc but it's been a while.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Remove all the screws under the pad up though the chrome bezel inside the car. Outside the car, remove the cowl over the wipers. You will see four or five little studs or bolts. Remove the nuts or bolts and the pad will be free to be removed. Same goes for 64.
Remove all the screws under the pad up though the chrome bezel inside the car. Outside the car, remove the cowl over the wipers. You will see four or five little studs or bolts. Remove the nuts or bolts and the pad will be free to be removed. Same goes for 64.
Awesome!
So, what you are saying is that when i remove those nuts and bolts, the entire dash to will be loose?
I was thinking that the entire dash unbolted on a canadian pontiac, but i was not quite sure how to get at the bolts
thanks, i will try this tommorow and report back.
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MY BEAUMONT HAS 4 STUDDED TIRES AND 2 BLOCKHEATERS......AND LOTS OF OIL UNDERNEATH. The other one has a longer roof.
One thing I know from reading this is I've never done it correctly then. I must have always just loosened inside and then lifted it up enough to drag the switch out for reverb, power antenna or whatever.
I'm not sure I would have ever figured that one out in a wrecking yard!
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Yes, it's nice to work on with the top lifted up, so off should be fine. As mentioned though, I think I've only done a radio, power antenna and reverb switches but I recall that being fine.
Up for a fall trip to Al's if it would work out?
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
i did mine last year, undid all the screws i could find, and then i found there was 2 spots near the winsheild that required persuation, i used a long screw driver and a hammer, and it popped off, it went back in ok and ud never know that the 2 spots near the winsheild were missing i did this to replace the padded portion of my 63 parisienne. i knew the amount of wacking to get it out wasnt the actual way to do it but my factory manual wasnt very clear and i think the windsheild was supposeed to come out
Remove all the screws under the pad up though the chrome bezel inside the car. Outside the car, remove the cowl over the wipers. You will see four or five little studs or bolts. Remove the nuts or bolts and the pad will be free to be removed. Same goes for 64.
I REMOVED THE PAD AND DASH FROM MY '64 LAURENTIAN FOR CLEANING AND RE-COLORING WITHOUT HAVING TO REMOVE THE COWL. IT ALL CAME OUT VERY EASY.
cowl vent should be removed , and there are least 2 bolts with spud nuts 3/8's? I think, that poke through the firewall upper portion. Like others have said, you may be able to muscle it out, but I've removed 3 of these ,,and that's that! I wouldn't take the chance of wrecking a fully padded dash removing it.
later...rog
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cowl vent should be removed , and there are least 2 bolts with spud nuts 3/8's? I think, that poke through the firewall upper portion. Like others have said, you may be able to muscle it out, but I've removed 3 of these ,,and that's that! I wouldn't take the chance of wrecking a fully padded dash removing it.
later...rog
You are correct! there are 2 studs on the dash that stick thu to the cowl area.
I got lucky on one car, as the nuts were already off. so i just removed the screws under the dashpad, and the whole dash top lifted off.
On a second car, no luck, so sure enough, there were to speednuts under the cowl outside the car.
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MY BEAUMONT HAS 4 STUDDED TIRES AND 2 BLOCKHEATERS......AND LOTS OF OIL UNDERNEATH. The other one has a longer roof.
I removed the padded dash in the parts car, I removed the screws under the dash and the 2 pieces of trim on the pillar. I also removed the courtesy light under the dash so the speaker would clear. At the windshield were 2 guide pins into the cowl area, there were no nuts on them and it looked like there never were any. It came out easily.
-- Edited by DonSSDD on Sunday 25th of February 2018 05:57:02 AM
63 Parisienne sport coupe (The Big GTO), black, maroon interior, 409 4 speed; former owner of a 59 El Camino, 63 Corvette SWC, 62 Chev Bel Air SC. 1963- Pontiac top selling car in Canada
Mahone Bay, NS Still not old enough to need an automatic
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