. . . in my 99 ram.that dash is brittle after 19 years took me 4 hours.
About a decade ago, I was involved in multicar pileup on interstate (middle vehicle). The person in front of me, his trailer hitch ball (or whatever it was) went through my ’97 Ram’s intercooler and radiator.
I had my wife and kids in the truck. My wife wasn’t wearing her seat belt (the rest of us were) so wife hit the dash. It didn’t hurt her but it sure did a number on my plastic dash.
I had just replaced the heater core a short time before then and the dash wasn’t exactly in pristine shape them.
I made a bobo and I need to take the dash back off again (not directly related to heater core) and want to find a “decent” one first – for there is no way I can remove my existing dash in less than four different major pieces, and several smaller ones.
Not looking towards that project, at all.
By the way, my Dodge has a 5 speed (NV4500-HD) – in which the shifter stub gets in the way of dash removal. Auto trucks and 4x4 – the dashes are not hard. It takes me twice as long on 5-speed ones – because of the shifter stub. ’98 (or ’99) they changed it to a much easier shifter design to work on.
BudW