Jeep 1979 CJ-5 Technical & Service Manual page 798

INSTRUMENT PANELS AND COMPONENTS 3C-5
INSTRUMENT CLUSTER
Removal
(1) Disconnect battery negative cable.
(2) Disconnect speedometer cable.
(3) Cover steering column to prevent damaging
paint.
(4) Remove cluster attaching screws and tilt top of
cluster toward interior of vehicle.
(5) Mark electrical connectors and hoses, and dis-
connect electrical connectors and heater vacuum hoses.
(6) Disconnect blend air door control cable.
(7) Remove cluster.
Installation
(1) Position cluster on instrument panel.
(2) Connect blend air door control cable.
(3) Connect electrical connectors and heater vac-
uum hoses.
(4) Install cluster attaching screws.
(5) Connect speedometer cable.
(6) Connect battery negative cable.
(7) Remove covering on steering column.
(8) Check heater and gauge operation.
INSTRUMENT PANEL
Removal
(1) Disconnect battery negative cable.
(2) Remove instrument panel crash pad, as outlined
in this chapter.
(3) Remove evaporator assembly and ducts, if
equipped with air conditioning.
(4) Remove instrument cluster.
(5) Remove radio, if equipped.
(6) Remove parking brake lever assembly.
(7) Remove air vent cables.
(8) Disconnect electrical connectors and remove
courtesy lights.
(9) Disconnect defroster hoses.
(10) Remove steering column trim panel.
(11) Remove bolt from center of brace and lower
steering column.
(12) Remove instrument panel attaching screws and
remove panel.
Installation
(1) Position instrument panel and install attaching
screws.
(2) Raise steering column and install bolt in center
of brace.
(3) Install steering column trim panel.
(4) Connect defroster hoses.
(5) Connect electrical connectors and courtesy
lights.
(6) Install air vent cables.
(7) Install parking brake lever assembly.
(8) Install instrument cluster.
(9) Install radio, if removed.
(10) Install evaporator assembly and ducts, if
removed.
(11) Install instrument panel crash pad.
(12) Connect battery negative cable.
CRASH PAD
Removal
(1) Remove windshield and windshield weath-
erstrip to expose crash pad retaining screws at base of
windshield (refer to Windshield Removal—Chapter 3N).
(2) Remove instrument cluster.
(3) Remove glove box.
(4) Remove ashtray and retainer.
(5) Remove radio, if equipped.
(6) Remove crash pad-to-instrument panel attach-
ing screws and nuts.
N O T E : The nuts are accessible through the cluster, ash
receiver, and glove box openings.
Installation
(1) Position crash pad on instrument panel.
(2) Install attaching screws and nuts.
(3) Install radio, if equipped.
(4) Install ashtray and retainer.
(5) Install glove box.
(6) Install instrument cluster.
(7) Install windshield weatherstrip and windshield
(refer to Windshield Installation—Chapter 3N).
GLOVE BOX ASSEMBLY
Removal
(1) Remove glove box-to-instrument-panel attach-
ing screws.
(2) Remove striker.
(3) Remove lockout control switch, if equipped.
(4) Move glove box down and out from rear of in-
strument panel.
N O T E : On vehicles equipped with air conditioning,
compress the glove box at the crease lines and remove
box through opening.
Installation
(1) Position glove box in glove box opening.
(2) Install glove box-to-instrument panel attaching
screws.
(3) Install lockout control switch, if removed.
(4) Install and adjust striker.