Removing the e-brake console
Melting Slicks
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Yep! There is on more bolt in the back of the console. You get access through the center storage compartment. PITA!!
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St. Jude Donor '10-'11, '15, '19
Once you get the center compartment out, you can reach in and feel the head of the bolt. Getting it out is easier than getting it back in.
One member here posted a different method of installing the E-brake console. He put a bolt from the underside of the console. Then just guided the bolt thru that hole and put a nut on it. Beats the heck out of trying to blindly line up the bolt with the console.
One member here posted a different method of installing the E-brake console. He put a bolt from the underside of the console. Then just guided the bolt thru that hole and put a nut on it. Beats the heck out of trying to blindly line up the bolt with the console.
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Once you get the center compartment out, you can reach in and feel the head of the bolt. Getting it out is easier than getting it back in.
One member here posted a different method of installing the E-brake console. He put a bolt from the underside of the console. Then just guided the bolt thru that hole and put a nut on it. Beats the heck out of trying to blindly line up the bolt with the console.
One member here posted a different method of installing the E-brake console. He put a bolt from the underside of the console. Then just guided the bolt thru that hole and put a nut on it. Beats the heck out of trying to blindly line up the bolt with the console.
I wish I had thought of this idea when I was puting mine back in. That would have been much easier.
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Melting Slicks
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Yeah, I'm glad GVG mentioned it, does sound much easier!
Melting Slicks
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Yes - ME TOO!!! The e brake console in my 76 is destroyed! That is a winter project and I fully intend to reverse the direction of the rear screw!!! 
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Hi AS,
You don't need to take the center compartment out.
You can reach the bolt by working from the jack compartment. Just lift the storage tray out. You use a 1/4" drive socket wrench. You reach along the rear side of the seat bulkhead about 12" or a little less.
Not bad at all once you do it the first time.
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Alan
Here's the position of the hole the bolt comes through on it's way to the e-brake console.
You don't need to take the center compartment out.
You can reach the bolt by working from the jack compartment. Just lift the storage tray out. You use a 1/4" drive socket wrench. You reach along the rear side of the seat bulkhead about 12" or a little less.
Not bad at all once you do it the first time.
Regards,
Alan
Here's the position of the hole the bolt comes through on it's way to the e-brake console.
Last edited by Alan 71; Nov 8, 2012 at 05:14 PM.
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Hi ogto,
The 2 plates that receive the rear ''footman's loops" are accessible in the wheel wells. Once the carpet is in place stick a needle up through the plates and you'll see where each screw goes.
The loop on the seat bulkhead is more difficult. I used a needle from the carpet side and 'felt' for the holes knowing 'about' where they were.
Regards,
Alan
The 2 plates that receive the rear ''footman's loops" are accessible in the wheel wells. Once the carpet is in place stick a needle up through the plates and you'll see where each screw goes.
The loop on the seat bulkhead is more difficult. I used a needle from the carpet side and 'felt' for the holes knowing 'about' where they were.
Regards,
Alan
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Won't be ready to start with the dash until I get all the pieces for it, no sense in pulling it apart until I have everything and it's warm enough here in the winter so I can continue driving as long as it's not raining that is. I hope that I can have everything I need bought before it gets too hot this spring but I do have lots of other mechanical things to get to. I have a brand new motor in it next is suspension (and maybe a dash piece bought here and there).
Thanks for the help and words of encouragement