Check out the first 3 minutes of our heater core video to learn how to remove the dash pad and get to the dash cluster on a 69-70 Mercury Cougar:Heater Core Replacement
Transcript:
00:19 well it's that time of a car's life we
00:22 all dread it's time to do the heater
00:24 core on this old car no kidding it's a
00:26 tough job and a lot of you are gonna
00:28 think I'm just gonna take it to a shop
00:30 that could be a mistake because a lot of
00:32 those shops don't have the patience or
00:34 love for your car that you do so let's
00:37 dive into this together maybe you'll
00:39 learn something here and you'll be
00:41 empowered once you watch this video and
00:43 feel like you can handle it and I don't
00:47 know what else to say .... normally I'd
00:54 remove the console but since I was
00:55 working on my radio and repainting my
00:58 console, that parts already done so
01:01 another piece we'd have to take off is
01:03 the radio trim ... already done ... so next
01:06 we'll start working on the fasteners ...
01:08 here, three of them up here, then we
01:13 got the little ones underneath this trim
01:15 we got a couple here and then we got a
01:19 couple here and here so we got lots of
01:22 external screws to remove unlike the 67
01:25 or 68 this dash pad is relatively easy
01:28 to remove
02:16 it helps to have a convertible
02:29 this is a critical point right here the
02:32 speedometer cable has to be squeezed
02:34 right at the head in just the right
02:36 place you yank on it you're gonna break
02:39 the plastic clip you got to replace the
02:41 whole speedometer cable so we're gonna
02:43 reach back there and squeeze it just in
02:46 the right place... perfect
02:50 this is what we're doing
02:59 you don't want to squeeze
03:00 like this, you're doing nothing. you want
03:03 to squeeze... you want to push this down
03:05 and when you push this tab down, you're
03:09 releasing that right there. that's the
03:11 locking pin, if you will, so you push down
03:14 and pull the cluster out