All good advise, just wish I hadn't learned it by trial and error YESTERDAY
But while we are on the subject, I am trying to go a little further and want to remove the padded dash top for replacement and it has been a real pain so far. I got the middle three nuts by removing the radio and standing on my head underneath the dash. Then OMG, the nuts in the corner of each end caused a last minute run to the parts store because I could not find my swivel adapter for my socket wrench and my fingers refused to kink and bend in the direction I told them to go.
Now I have two roadblocks left.
1) I don't know how I will ever get some of the nuts started again
and
2) It may not matter because it looks like there are at least two more nuts holding the dash top on. I know about them because I pulled my gage face plate out a little (with gages still attached) and I think there are nuts inside a piece of metal channel at the very back of this area, where my dash still seems to be attached.
I have know idea what kind of socket wrench will fit inside the channel ?
Any Ideas ?