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Joined: 8/21/2002
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Vette(s): 1978 L48 Auto. Red with Oyster Leather interior. Owned since 1990.
Thanks John!
I confess that I'm not desperate to rush in and remove the console, even though I'd like the clock running! But if it comes to it I will certainly let you know how it goes.
I've had the side carpet pieces out a few times to do some work on the radio, the wash/wipe/delay module and, in fact, the heater control. I know what you mean about that cable!
We're off on a long weekend in the old '78 today, to Normandy with the French Corvette Club, staying in Etretat. It'll be about 1400 miles all told by the time we're back home I think. Alas, not a great weather forecast.....
Stephen J Irons
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First time I removed the instrument cluster from my '81, I first separated it from the bottom console
piece which has the heater controls. Much much easier, believe me. The screws holding the two
together weren't all that hard to get to and undo. Those heater cables are not friendly at all
even if you try and then take the bottom console out separately. I can't even begin to imagine
trying to take the two out together as a unit. Ugh. Just ugh. Unnecessary nightmare stuff in my
opinion.
Also, I found that the back of the cluster would firmly catch on the edges of the dash where it was
coming out of, and one could not see why. Trial and error taught me that sliding a plastic credit card
gently around the edge of the cluster, between it and the dash, as you bring the cluster forward was a
wonderful cure for this !
Cheers from down under
Chris
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You forgot to specify that you use a "pre-C3" or "expired" credit card to smoothen the gauge bezel's extraction. Many of us had our credit cards taken away by our wives after owning our addictive C3's for a few months. Lol
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