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Old 03-21-2005, 11:03 AM
gmercoleza gmercoleza is offline
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Originally Posted by LarryBible

With the dash removed for the podectomy, you're not that far from the evaporator. You pull the console and then remove the entire a/c unit after recovering the refrigerant and disconnecting the heater hoses and a few other things. You're looking at something like a 15 hour job.
Thanks for the insight, Larry. How long do you think just pulling the dash would take? I am interested in doing just the pods for now, since the A/C does blow cold (no reason to mess with evap at this point). But I also need to get the wood strips off the dash as well in order to refinish them, and from what somebody on this forum has told me, they can only be removed with the dash off. If I can kill 2 birds with one stone, the effort will be well worth it. Also, I have done a search and IIRC several members seem to indicate you can pull the dash without removing the steering wheel; this would be ideal since I'm leery of messing with the airbag. Any thoughts?

Thanks again. This is very helpful.
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