Re: dash removal 1948 custom 8

Posted by Dave Kenney On 2010/8/2 11:23:27

David, Yes my car has the underseat heater. I recall that I put a blanket over it when I had the seat out so it wouldn't get damaged by me lieing on it although it isn't that difficult to unbolt and remove. The radio may be different than on my '47 but it is fairly straight forward process. Remove the tuner and volume knobs, remove the nuts underneath, There are two hooked rods; one on each side of the radio which have wing nuts on the bottom end holding the radio to two brackets. Remove these and unhook the two rods and the radio should be free to be moved towards the firewall so that the tuner and volume rods clear the dash holes and the radio should drop down. Power wire and antenna must be removed also of course and other wiring may have to be moved around to allow the radio to move back. I found that it helped to remove the radio and speaker grille so i could reach around and undo dash gauge wiring and to see what I was doing. Not sure if this also applies to the '49 but I imagine it must be similar. Good luck!