Larry,

If/when you start, I highly recommend taking digital pictures of EVERY fastener that might look like it could go back together a different way. Especially if a removable clip is involved, I found the pictures I took to be invaluable in figuring out what went where, and in what orientation.

I don't believe the pass. side recirc pod is removable with the dash in. There is a pod on the R side of the heater box that is for defrost and is doable, but I suspect it is a "hard" doable.

With the proper pages from the manual, the dash R&R isn't too hard, just very very very time consuming. It took me 18 hours over three days to do mine (for the first time), but I wasn't in a hurry.