91 caprice classic

[carot]

Come on guys surely there is somebody out who has removed the top dashpad in a caprice classic
You all post replies of one kind or another is there nobody out there that can help me
Thanks/Scouse.

[DevilDog83]

Remove the console panels and take out the screws from under the dash

[carot]

Console Panels (please explain) & How.
screws from under dash? (I want to take the top pad off not the dash.Or do you mean the screws under dash pad.
Thanks Scouse

[DevilDog83]

Sorry meant instrument panels... ie the spedometer and guages panel cover... should unscrew and yes when you take that off and get behind it 7you will see the dash pad screws

[burnM]

On the '91, to get to the dash pad you have to remove pretty much the whole facia of the dash.

Start underneath the dash, and remove the panels that cover up the wiring (kick panels). Mine doesn't have them, maybe just the driver's side.
Then you have to remove the piece underneath the steering column.
The entire piece that goes across the guages, radio, heater, right over to the glovebox has to be removed.
The woodgrain piece over the glovebox just pulls off, there is a screw underneath that that has to come off. (open the glovebox to remove it)
The only good news about all of this, is that the light switch, radio, guages, etc, don't get disturbed (you don't have to remove them).
After all of that is out of the way, you should be able to get to the scews that hold the dash pad in place.
They should all be at the front edge of the dash.
After those screws are removed, you should be able to pull the dash pad up, and toward you. It should be held at the base of the windsheild with clips, rather than screws. You may have to pull hard, but it will come out.

It seems like a pain in the a** to have to remove everything, but, once you've done it, it's cake to do it again.