Firewall Padding Removal
Short answer: You do not need to remove the dash to replace the firewall padding. You just have to remove everything bolted through the padding into the firewall — mainly the air/heater box and the steering column.
The air/heater box is the hard part on an assembled car — the bolts under the passenger fender are nearly impossible to reach without removing the fender (doable, just slow). The parking-brake assembly is held in three places: one bolt at the bottom of the dash and two nuts on the engine side of the firewall (partly hidden between the booster and the fender on power-brake cars). Once it’s loose, the cable detaches easily.
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Content last modified: June 13, 2026 at 10:06 am
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