Hey guys, what's going on welcome back to the channel and just when I thought the rain has stopped for a while
I started walking on the truck started moving things like the hood and the fenders and now I got to cover that up
So it doesn't get wet
But on this episode, we're not gonna be working on the nose swap because I'm still waiting for the brackets to come in from McNasty's
But we're gonna be working on the dash swap. So this episode is part one of the dash swap
Alright, so for now I had to cover the nose up because I don't have any I don't have the hood or anything
so, I mean I had the hood off of the other truck, but
In order to put that on I gotta finish the cowl
But anyway, so this is this is just easier and quicker to do. So while I'm still waiting on the McNasty
Brackets for the front. I decided to go ahead and start working on the dash swap
So those of you guys that remember I did the interior seats and carpet swap because this truck was a farm truck
The guy had a dog. So the dog was you know with him all the time
So it was pretty bad also, I'm gonna put the link
to the interior swab down in the description if you guys want to check it out if you're gonna if you guys want to see
the whole process of me removing the old
Seats carpet all that stuff. So check that out down below in description and then so now it's time to do the dash swap
So I'm gonna have to remove that stick first and then I'm gonna go ahead and remove the front seats
Anyways, just so just so I have more room to work in over here. Maybe I'll remove the column
So it'll be easier to remove the dash. So it'd be not as heavy
You can actually remove this whole dash with the steering wheel everything intact without removing any of the panels
Just remove a couple bolts here a couple on top and there's one somewhere on the bottom that connects the steering column
To the shaft that goes to the gearbox
So first I'm gonna do is I want to remove the seats and the console in the center here remove the stick shift
I'll probably just remove the column just so it'd be a little bit easier on my back
I got some little bit of back problems here
So it'd be a little bit easier for the dash to be a little bit lighter. Also down in the description
I'm gonna put a couple links of dash removal and
install from
McNasty customs and then one from King Shaka customs as well. He did a pretty good
video on
Removing these old dashes and then he also has another video for the newer dashes removal
And he shows how to remove it completely without really removing anything else. So it's gonna be it's it's an optional thing
Honestly, I mean it's a preference if you want to remove a few panels to make it a little bit lighter or to give you
a few
Points to grab a little bit easier. That's up to you. It takes a little bit longer. I'm gonna go that route
I'm gonna remove a few things that are just kind of be gonna be in the way a little bit and
Then I'm gonna go ahead and pop the dash out. I'm gonna hurry
So I'm gonna do
What kind of what kind of feels more comfortable for me and Matthew? What are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do again? Tell me we're gonna do you just sit there and look pretty
Okay, so what are we doing here Matthew
What am I? Okay. Okay. If you just gonna sit there look pretty what am I gonna do?
Really and you're gonna help me. Okay. Well, hopefully I don't squash you
Before we're gonna get the dash out
I'm actually gonna remove the kick panel and the seal
Panel right here and then there's a bolt I think this side or the driver's side maybe both sides
So this thing has to come out. There's a bolt that holds the dash
Over here, I believe and there's two here one here or I don't remember. I think there's one here. Maybe one here
But let's go ahead and start removing stuff
And get a few bolts and get this done. All right, Matthew. You ready? Let's go. Yeah
All right, so I'm bolted the dash all the bolts
There's a there's three on top
Those two are eight millimeters and this one is a seven millimeter. I don't know why Ford did that kind of weird
There's two on here ten and a ten and then I unplugged all of the plugs right here
There's a ground but four five six plugs right here
disconnected those I
disconnected the
The gas pedal I got to disconnect the e-brake really quick. And then there's another bolt that was kind of mounted right
there ten millimeter
I
Remove that with the with the short socket and then also the steering shaft bolt. I removed that
I did want to remove the steering column, but I couldn't figure out a way how to unplug this
Because this harness actually ties down
With the dash harness so I could remove this one, but this one is super tight
So I'm assuming to remove this after remove this whole clock spring
Mechanism with the steering wheel kind of weird
but I decided to go ahead and just put it back in for now and remove the dash with the
With the steering wheel and steering column and as I'm pulling things off
There's gonna be other plugs in the back that I'm gonna have to disconnect
Gradually, so I'm gonna have to kind of pull it off disconnect pull it off disconnect and then it should come out
There's one thing that I forgot to disconnect and that was the the main harness from the truck
Unless on the driver's side right here on the one the harness is right here and I have to unbolt
There's like three bolts that I have to unbolt from inside the engine bay and because I forgot to unbolt it
I kind of broke this little top bracket part, but it's not a big deal to unbolt the harness
It's that piece that big cube right there and there's three bolts that hold it in place
But to get to it, it's kind of a little bit of a challenge
All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and figure out how to unbolt those three bolts from the engine bay
Maybe underneath the truck somehow I'll get to it
It's a little bit tight, but once I get those unbolted then I'm gonna go ahead and pop the dash out
And then we'll see what we got. All right, so after removing the wheel wells
This is the the three plugs that I have to unbolt and that should disconnect the the dash harness
And also I went ahead and removed the intake and you can access the pins and
Little bolts from this side too as well. So I basically had to access the
The pins from the top as well to kind of push it in
But it can be done from bottom or the top
And now that I have it unbolted from the engine bay
I can actually go ahead and pop that out and it's good to go
And I made sure I got the e-brake disconnected
There's a couple wires in the back that I'll have to disconnect
Once I pull the dash out more and I would what I decided to do is actually put the dash back on on a couple
bolts here
Because after I got home from work at 2 in the morning
I looked at it some more and I did realize that I can go ahead and unplug
The harness from here by removing screw here and a screw here
So that's actually unplugged now this piece is like a C C bracket
I guess I thought it was actually a complete circle and that's why I thought maybe I need to remove the steering wheel
But after looking at it some more
It's basically like a C type of a bracket and that comes off and then I was able to remove this plug
Otherwise, it's kind of blocked in here and you can't remove it. But now that I got that removed. I'm gonna go ahead and
remove the steering column and
That's gonna make things a little bit easier
All right guys, so I removed a few more things that I just felt like why not?
Especially the glove box. I think you would make more sense to remove it because you can reach a couple of plugs
From inside the glove box, so you don't have to struggle
To getting them from behind the glove box from you know from behind the dash trying to reach in here and disconnect that one
And this main plug
Also went ahead and pulled off this panel right here fairly easy, there's no screws no bolts
No, nothing just gonna pry it and it'll pop out of these little
square holes in here and then they remove the cluster just you know, so we have more room here to grab if I need to and
then I went and grabbed my
Harnesses that were underneath the wiring and I just kind of shove them to the front
And this is the one that plugged in where I had the three bolts on the firewall
So I pulled that through so nothing is gonna get caught on the bottom here you don't have to do all this
Especially if you have somebody that's helping you
It's kind of awkward and heavy
But because I'm gonna pull off the dashboard myself, I figured might not why not just you know
Make it a little bit easier and one more thing is the radio
antenna cable
That's another thing that's plugged in to the harness. Well, it's not really plugged in but it's
It's gonna give you trouble if you're gonna be pulling on the dash
Push that in there. There you go. And there's two more plugs that if you have for example a clutch
Truck and there's a cable that goes right here to the clutch pedal
That needs to be
Unplugged right there
So we got that one
Right there the plugs to the to the pedal the clutch pedal and two more right there
If you guys can see that
Those right there and that goes to the firewall harness here. You can see that it goes to the firewall
So there's two plugs right here last harness that's kind of behind here at the bottom here that goes to the what is that?
I think it's a SRS
module airbag module
That's the last one to get to which you can probably get from the bottom
Underneath the dash
Glove box you can get those they're pretty much everything you can unplug from the front
With accepts with the exception of removing the glove box. All right, and finally the dash is removed and that's what we got
So just to recap the most important three plugs in the back
this one
this wire and
To this module right here. This one can be reached in from
Inside the glove box after the glove box is popped out
This one can maybe be reached from kind of underneath here, but that's a little bit tight
So maybe this one is the only one that can be reached from behind. I haven't tried it obviously because the dash I
Didn't know about it until I actually start removing the dash. These can be reached also from underneath
Where the steering column is that's pretty much it
And then don't forget to remove the ebrake cable and then the main harness
Plug some trucks are different
Mine in my case
There were three bolts and then it unplugs snaps out on some trucks
Like I think the newer ones you have to actually fish them down and there's plugs inside the engine compartment
But on this year, that's how it goes and it's a little bit easier
So you don't have to fish things through the firewall. Other than that, it's just a heavy piece and it's kind of awkward
Trying to grab it. That's why I decided to go ahead and start moving a few panels here and there
So it'd be easier to grab on to things and here's the old dash
next to the
To the new dash. It's gonna look a not a lot nicer
Now I got to start prepping the new dash now in order to install the new dash into the 7.3
The vent system has to be kind of redesigned a little bit. So
Waiting on that kit from swap swap helper comm
Once that comes in I'm gonna go ahead and install the vent system right here
So that's gonna be in the part 2 episode of the dash swap series
So once that comes in we'll get that done. And by the way, I put this dash on a scale and
I put everything on like the glove box
steering column the cluster and the panel with the radio and
The the scale showed me that this dash is 115 pounds
So, I mean that's a heavy little piece awkward and it's big
So if you're gonna be doing it by yourself
Just know that it's a little bit heavy if you got help then this shouldn't be that big of a deal
Alright guys, so I hope you enjoyed this episode
part 1 of the dash swap is
Finished so we'll see you on part 2 either dash swap or part 2 no swap
Depending which kits come in first and then we'll get them done as they come in
All right guys. Thanks for watching. If you're new, please subscribe and we'll see you in the next one
