70 C3

To what extent do I have to dissasemble dash to replace?

Alan 71

Hi 70,
If you're good at laying in the foot well upside down, and have the hands and arms the size of a 3 year old, you can change the shaft assembly in place.
Good Luck!
Regards,
Alan

Do you have the Assemby Instruction Manual to show you what you're dealing with?

0Willcox Corvette

You can do this job from under the dash as Alan said. It’s not easy and you’ll spend a while on your back. When you install the cable make positive you do not bind it up. We did a speedometer for a customer and when he installed it back in the car he bound up the re-set shaft.

When this happens, it can eat the teeth off the trip drive gear and basically lock up the trip odometer and then the speedometer if left in the upward reset position. Just make sure before you drive the car that it will push up and fall back down.

Willcox Inc.

john roth

If you try it with the dash in you probably will end up taking it anyway off to replace bulbs knocked out or something else accidently disconnected. Faster to lay the dash forward I would think.
My $0.02.

JR

0Willcox Corvette

Good luck JR and I hope you pull it off! You can reach some of the bulb connectors. . . Just take your time, you'll get it and if you can't. . . Go to the web site for dash pad removal. http://willcoxcorvette.com/repairand...lp.php?hID=105 When you are doing what you need to do it is not important to get the driver dash out but to obtain room. . .

So with this in mind, you can remove the right pad, the top pad and then you will have access to the back of the driver pad without taking it out.

Food for thought but still a PITA,

Willcox Inc.

Duke94

One more tip: REMOVE THE SEAT.

Gary

Alan 71

There's been some talk lately about taking the upper pad out for various reasons. I think original pads have become so brittle by now that I think I'd only take it out again as a last resort. I believe once the column is dropped you can get at everything back there with the upper pad in place.
So just be cautious out there!
Regards,
Alan

70 C3

Again thanks guys. I had a separate forum question regarding left speaker removal. I guess I will merge projects and just pull the let pad out. Having said that I should replace dash bulbs as insurance.
What about speedo and tach cables? Should I replace both. I have seen this 90 deg adapter for tach cable. Is it worth it. Are all the corvette catalog stores offer these products but are they all of equal quality?

Easy Mike

Save your money. The adapter is not necessary if the distributor is properly aligned and #1 set accordingly.