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As we mature, ok age, there are some tasks that seem more difficult. Here are two that I've been working on presently:
Working under the dash removing aftermarket stereo and installing original radio and speakers. Crawling under the dash installing the dash speaker and radio or crawling in the trunk to install the rear speaker. Carpeting installation with console. It's not difficult but tedious. The rear seat bottom removal is never an easy task for me. I know you need to push the bottom towards the back and lift. If you know of a clever way or have a trick LMK!
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Under the dash.
Been there …. done that many many times when I was a younger man. Today at 70 I feel like a brittle pretzel 🥨 when I eventually remove myself. Plus that 60 year old jute falls down in my eyes. Not fun. I’ll just sit back, sip some red wine 🍷 and enjoy my Survivors as they are.
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Steve, you need to push the cushion down at the same time as back, as there is a hook in the floor bracket to prevent it from popping out in a crash. Place both palms on the top to front panel seam, inline with the floor bracket, and give a mighty shove down and back at a 45% angle, ONE side at a time. Once the first side has popped up, do the other, no need to try and lift. They usually pop up by themselves, once they are forced out of the floor bracket.
I hear ya on laying under a dash. Last week I spent a few "quality" days building the instrument panel back up and installing it my '66 Chevelle. Still a long way to go to have the whole interior in, but it was a start.
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yeah......
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I don't think there is a trick for the rear bottom seat cushions...just a lot of grunting and grumbling until it releases. As for under the dash, I'll trade ya...try doing work under the instrument panel of a DeHavilland Chipmunk. I think I took the mindset of "become one with the airplane" a little too literal.
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----For me, a clutch job on a mid-year Corvette takes the award, although under the dash of a mid-year is a close second. If only the factory had made the trans crossmember removable. At this point in my life I literally can't do the job (torn rotator cuffs on both shoulders and arth). Had to farm it out....Bill S
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Cleaning a chassis. I just finished my 1967 Corvette and it got me in the mood to clean the undercoating off the chassis of my 1970 Corvette. I put in 12 hours over the weekend in a hot Texas garage with a 300 degree heat gun in hand. My wife is checking our will as I post this.
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I hate replacing heater cores, but what I really hate is working on jetskis, anything besides replacing a battery and you have to be a Mechanical Gynecologist.
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