Defroster vent replacement - How hard???

[scamp80602]

Before I dive in head first, how difficult is it to replace the dash defroster vents on a 75 Scamp? Looks like the right one is accessable after the glove compartment box is removed - does the instrument cluster need to be removed to get to the left one? Thanks!

 

[H22A4]

It might have to be. My passenger side vent was faded and I had the glovebox, radio and HVAC controls already out of the way so I removed the vent and spray painted it the correct color. My drivers side vent was in great shape but I thought about removing it until I noticed how difficult it was going to be to get the nuts off on the far side so left it. I was worried that getting the nut off would be a lot easier compared to getting it back on.

Post pics of your car! I'm in the process of reassembling my 75 Scamp and just installed new trunk weather stripping this morning... easy job compared to some of the other ones like putting the windows back in.

 

[scamp80602]

I just posted pics in the Gallery - hope you enjoy!

 

[H22A4]

Nice Scamp!
When was yours built? Mine was Feb '75 at Hamtramck.

 

[scamp80602]

April 75 - Hamtramck, also. I noticed yours has buckets and dual exhaust. Did you add the duals? If so, did you add converters as well? Was it the same H- pipe and hangers as a 73-74? It looks like the same headers as the 74 dart Sport 318 I had. It's nice to see what it looks like with the Rallye wheels. Looks good! I can't quite tell the original color, but it looks like Spanish Gold??

 

[H22A4]

I added the dual exhaust about 15 years ago. Mine was an export car to Canada and strange thing is that it never had a converter on the single. My grandmother never replaced/touched the original exhaust (except for the odd muffler) so it escaped the emissions police. If I bought the car used I would think the original owner removed it but having the service records and asking my grandmother about it before she passed away confirms that it didn't have it.

Also decoding the fender tag told me that the car was built on Valentines Day in 1975 which happened to fall on Friday that year. I didn't think much of it until I took the interior apart last Fall for the restoration. Odd nuts and bolts were used here and there in the interior and the best part was noticing that the two clips that hold the package tray on were never installed when I removed the tray. After I removed the carpet the next day I found the two clips in the back seat foot well area. I suspect the assembly line workers were thinking about what sort of action they would get later that night... perhaps that was why the cat was never installed?


The front seat in those pictures look like buckets but they're a bench with fold down arm rest. Here are a few pics when I cleaned them earlier this spring. My grandmother had seat covers on them for 15+ years so the cloth looks like new.

The colour is Cinnamon metallic with the same parchment/champange top you've got on yours.
Here's a thread to a few pics of it w/o the vinyl top installed yet.
http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showthread.php?t=22916