Removing Dash

I doubt that you can remove the entire dash as a unit, unless you have smaller hands than I do. How you remove it depends if you want to save anything when you remove it. Probably removing the fuse block on the firewall is the first place I'd start, especially if you are going to refurb everything. There are about a dozen small spring nuts around the perimeter of the padded portion of the dash that secure it to the stationary part of the dash. If you're going to replace/rebuild everything you remove, you'll have to be more careful as you dismantle it. The speedo cable, ignition, light and wiper/washer switches, the gauge cluster, radio and speaker, heater & heater controls will have to be removed to get to the spring nuts. On my car, I wasn't concerned about saving much (wasn't worth saving), so I took a more haphazard approach to removal, and just cut wires, etc.....probably not what you will want to do if you're restoring the car to original. It's a job, and has to be done standing on your head under the dash.

Longer answer !!

We all have our own ways of doing things I guess. But for me the easiest way is to first remove the glove box liner, carefully if you want to re-use it. Then the radio brace. Remove the cables from the heater box plenum that originate at the heat control unit. Unplug all switches and speedo head, unscrew and pull out speedo cable, don`t forget the radio antenna. Remove the two nuts under the steering column so column will drop some. Now there`s 8 nuts that hold the assembly in (i think only 8) The far left drivers side upper corner is hardest for me, so I usually remove the headlight switch WITH the plug still attached, and just push the switch in and down to give me more room, I`ll do the same with the wiper switch if it gives any resistance trying to unplug since these switches get very fragile over the years. Remove the dash assy. as one chunk, then you can easily get at your headlight and wiper switch to unplug them.

I was pretty amazed at this last one I removed that it had all the mounting nuts in place. One other thing, there`s usually one or two wire loom loops attached to the bezel, one I think around the gas gauge, the other somewhere near the heater control ? It`s only about an hours job, if you drink coffee and smoke

been there,wrecked the ones at the switch end, actually found it easier to remove the cables at the box end

You sure you can`t remove that "legend" bullshit ?