Third Gen Camaro heater core replacement - Camaro5 Chevy Camaro Forum / Camaro ZL1, SS and V6 Forums

Tom1985 · 06-17-2015, 11:19 AM

Hi all, I posted a beginning question on an existing thread with no reply (read all the related threads here, and watched all utubes available already) -none address this basic 1st step. so I found a picture from someone else's dash area (MINE is different it appears) to explain my basic question as I am totally inexperience with the dash area, and don't want to do unnessary work.

In the pictured dash below it appears that the lower part of the dash is a seperate piece that allows him tp remove it and gain access to the upper two bolts ( far left and center bolts of the 5 on the heater box cover) On mine, it appears that the entire dash plastic is all one piece requiring removal of tons of stuff to get the entire dash off.

Is that true, or am i wrong? It appears that different years and/or firebird vs camaro dashes are different in that way, thus on mine making a difficult job even more difficult

thank-you for any guidance and or picture of a ONE whole piece dash like I may have, so I can see the extent of what needs to come off. Tom

Obsessive Camaro Disorder · 06-25-2015, 09:55 PM

IIRC, You have to pull the whole dash. It's been a decade since I did mine. Go to www.thirdgen.org for this project. Any and all info you need will be there. This is a very common repair for these cars and NOBODY likes doing it. It is a PITA!

CruzinQueen · 07-18-2015, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Obsessive Camaro Disorder

IIRC, You have to pull the whole dash. It's been a decade since I did mine. Go to www.thirdgen.org for this project. Any and all info you need will be there. This is a very common repair for these cars and NOBODY likes doing it. It is a PITA!

I could not agree more. I felt so guilty when my husband (a very good DIYer and knows his way around the garage) spent a whole Sunday performing this repair to my 91.

06-17-2015, 11:19 AM	#1
Tom1985 Drives: 85 Camaro sport 305 vin H Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Berwyn.IL Posts: 4	Third Gen Camaro heater core replacement Hi all, I posted a beginning question on an existing thread with no reply (read all the related threads here, and watched all utubes available already) -none address this basic 1st step. so I found a picture from someone else's dash area (MINE is different it appears) to explain my basic question as I am totally inexperience with the dash area, and don't want to do unnessary work. In the pictured dash below it appears that the lower part of the dash is a seperate piece that allows him tp remove it and gain access to the upper two bolts ( far left and center bolts of the 5 on the heater box cover) On mine, it appears that the entire dash plastic is all one piece requiring removal of tons of stuff to get the entire dash off. Is that true, or am i wrong? It appears that different years and/or firebird vs camaro dashes are different in that way, thus on mine making a difficult job even more difficult thank-you for any guidance and or picture of a ONE whole piece dash like I may have, so I can see the extent of what needs to come off. Tom

06-25-2015, 09:55 PM	#2
Obsessive Camaro Disorder Drives: 69 Camaro and 92 RS Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Iowa Posts: 180	IIRC, You have to pull the whole dash. It's been a decade since I did mine. Go to www.thirdgen.org for this project. Any and all info you need will be there. This is a very common repair for these cars and NOBODY likes doing it. It is a PITA! __________________ There are 3 ways to do any project. Good, fast, and cheap. You can only choose two. If it's done good and fast, it isn't going to be cheap. If it's done good and cheap, it isn't going to be done fast. If it's done cheap and fast, it isn't going to be good.