Today was kinda productive..in an odd sense... Yeah I pulled more parts off (this keeps going im gonna have a pile of parts and no car..lol)
Took the binnacle and dash pad out...lil adventure... Got 4 of the 6 nuts off the binnacle and couldnt get the other 2..I didnt have anything that could get on them...so I went to home depot and picked up a couple of wiggly wrenches (ratcheting for you techy types)..and a couple bags of moss killer (it is home depot after all)..Got back under there and tried for a while to get the last 2 nuts...they just kept spinning...then I felt around a little more..discovered I was trying to take the wrong nuts out..after thar binnacle came out easy..
The dash pad wasnt difficult either..though I'd love to smack the numpty that decided to put two nuts in the center where its nigh impossible to get into.
Looks all clean without the nasty binnacle and pad....
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Once I got it out, the dash pad looks a bit worse than I had thought....
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The binnacle is in awful shape too. I even tried to pull some of the loose cooked vinyl off. Gonna have to decide which direction to go now.
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I also pulled what I assume was the remnant of some critter's nest out of the ducting too (sorry no pics of that).