I'll probably do the dash swap the last weekend of this month or the first weekend of next month. I have everything ready to install. I will need a weekend + a day or two as once I remove the old dash I need to paint the steering column and let that dry for a day or so before installing the dash. The actual dash swapping itself is not as hard as it looks. When I was re-building the dash in my yellow Hornet a few years ago I had all the components out of it and just the main dash frame (like the one you sent me) still in the car. I decided while I had it that far apart I would just take it completely out and install a new heater core. Good thing as the then almost 25 year old original one was about to spring a leak. When I got the orange car last october one of the first repairs I made to it was to install a new heater core as the one in the car was bypassed because of a leak. On that one I just followed the TSM on just loosening the dash on the pass side and changing it after removing the package tray. When I swap dashes I will also change the vacuum lines that operate the heater controls. It is real easy to do with the dash out so why not replace 30 year old vacuum lines. I am going to do this dash job as fast as possible as this is the only one of my 3 cars that has working A/C. "Doc"
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