Camaroz29

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Ok, I've posted about his once and a friend of mine did as well with no results. There is a panel under the dash on both the driver's and passengers side. 2 clips hold in the driver's side and 3 hold up the passenger side. Everyone tells me there are screws for this, but this is on 82-89 cars apparently. I have pics this time of the one that I have left, but they are too big to post. I can email them to anyone who wants to see them.

bru333

I'd like to see them.

Camaroz29

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Here is a resized pic

tom3

My car didn't have these hush panels when I got it. Been to several junk yards and have yet to see a third gen with them. Wonder what the option would be to get them on the car? Would surely have thought they'd attach with screws like most of the others I've seen. Sorry, no help, just rambling on.

Camaroz29

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I've asked many, many people for these. Everyone always responds the same. Their car has clip+screw system to hold them on. I even talked to Thomas from houseofcamaro and he said he was looking right at a 92 that didn't use these clips either. Maybe it was an option on 90-92s? I don't know.

shr00m

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The passenger side is held on with three screws and a push on lock washer. The driver's side under dash panel is held on with torx screws. The Driver's side hush panel is held on by three of those clips.

This is on my 92 TA and was the same on my 92 firebird. The passenger side can do with out the clips, you just have to install and remove the two driver side pieces as one. Take them both out and place the hush panel into the underdash panel like the clips would hold it with the tabs sticking through the dash panel. Then take long screws and screw them through the tabs close to the under dash panel. Now you can reinstall both pieces as one and the hush panel won't fall down.

Here's a pic of my passenger side. Mine has three holes where the screws go. Does yours have three tabs like the driver's?

Kevin D.

Camaroz29

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Yes, mine has three rectangular tabs.

smokefan

i had those clips on my 91 rs. i cant remember if it had screws also that held it up also.

shr00m

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Interesting. My dash doesn't even have spots where tabs could go through.. Might just be a firebird thing. Here's a thought I tried out. The screw clips that are all over the dash will work in place of those. You have to tweak the the clip a bit, but it snaps in and out just like the stock tabs. I have a dash shell I'm about to throw out if you want me to send you a handfull of these things to try out. Your tab is right, dash screw tab is left.

Here's a pic:

Kevin D.

Camaroz29

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I'll go take a pic of my panel right now.

Camaroz29

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Maybe there is a misunderstanding. When I said I had 3 tabs, I meant my panel has 3 thin little rectangular slits for these clips to go through. I'll post a pic as soon as I get the SOB resized.

shr00m

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Please do, because now I'm confused..

FWIW, the last picture is of my driver's side as my passenger side difinately screws in.

Kevin D.

Camaroz29

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Passenger side panel, with holes for clips clearly present.

shr00m

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Those are slotted holes for screws to go through. You can see in my first pic that my screw holes are slotted too. Due to slight differences in assembly, they needed to be slotted to fit everytime.

The clips have to slide on tabs and then through holes. If that panel needed the clips, you would have to have another piece that had tabs on it.

Kevin D.

Camaroz29

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Now I'm truly lost. I don't need that clip at all, I need a whole new set of screws and tabs? The previous owner of my car said this and all his other 91s used those clips to hold the panels in.

shr00m

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Actually you should just need three screws for the passenger side. Here's a crude paintshop. Red is the hush panel and how it's laid out. Rear of the car would be towards the top of the pic. Should be able to look up at the dash and see matching screw holes.

If someone else reading this happens to have a dash and panel installed in the car, please snap a pic showing the screw holes in the car..

Camaroz29

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And the driver's side is not the same? It is currently held in place with zip ties. Now I'm wondering where the **** that clip came from. What is a "hush" panel?

shr00m

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Correct. The driver's side is held in with those clips. The flimsy plastic panels are the hush panels (at least that's what I've always called them). The driver's side has a thick metal rubber wrapped panel directly under the steering wheel. That's the metal you see in my second picture. The flimsy plastic hush panel has tabs the stick up into the metal. The clips attach to the plastic tabs and hold the hush panel attached to the under wheel metal panel.

So, screws on the passenger side, clips and tabs on the drivers.

Kevin D.

Camaroz29

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Ok, so what I need is a set of 3 screws and push-on washers for the passenger side, and I need 2 more of those clips and their tabs for the driver's side. Now all I need to do is find them. These clips don't seem easy to find.

Camaroz29

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Anyone have these parts?

Camaroz29

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Where is a good place to find all these obscure little parts?

Firebreed

try your local AZ/kragen(checkers)/pep boys, if they dont got it go to the Dealer

Camaroz29

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Those were my first stops, and of course they were no help. They don't keep stuff for cars over 10 years old.

Firebreed

i got some clips for the interior piece that goes along the top of the window (not sureof its name) from gm, try Auto zone and such.

Camaroz29

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Autozone and Advance doesn't have them, and neither does NAPA. I looked when I was in NC and again when I got here. The parts guy at the local dealership is a ****ing tool too.

Firebreed

just take the clip up to az and go to their "help" section and search it out, i did the same thing when my rod to handle clip broke, much cheaper to do.

shr00m

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Email these guys:

http://www.perrypam.com/index.htm

Send the picture and give a description. They should have a bucket of them.

Kevin D.

Camaroz29

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Olive...temZ2466539600

Do these look like the right clips? If not once again I would appreciate it if someone has some of these. I need the clips for the driver's side and the screws and washer for the passenger side.

Firebreed

that would be them

Camaroz29

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I just have my doubts since that looks like it has a hole of some sort for a screw. The clip in my pic is not like that.

Firebreed

They look like my clips, and inorder to keep the hush panels up you gotta use a screw that goes into the "clip"

84 1LE

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You can snag those at the junkyard by the dozens.They look like this,at least in my 84 they do.

84 1LE

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The clip goes on the underside of the dash.The screw goes thru the slots & onto the clip.Thereby holding the panel up.

Camaroz29

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My car isn't the same as yours, if you look at the pic posted you could tell that clip is different and doesn't use screws.

Firebreed

dude, your supposed to have screws and those clip on lock nuts, take a look at where the hush panels go, i am 99.99999% sure that you have holes in the dash were screws will go in.

Camaroz29

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ok, but look at that pic there isn't any place for a screw

Firebreed

those slots are where the screws go in, that clip looks like it was bought at the AZ help section, its not the right clip, the first one you shown

Camaroz29

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I think this guy was right.

Firebreed

Ive gone through many junkyards with camaros and birds with hush panels on them( 82-92), NONE of them had those types of clips of the hush panels, they had the tyep that you use a screw

jimp2001

They are on 90-92 camaros... I dont know about Firechickens... I got the clips from the dealer in the parts bin at service, they gave them to me for free, they are a non-inventoried item.

Camaroz29

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Can you hook me up then jimp? I don't live that far.

Camaroz29

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Anyone? Whenever someone parts out a car I ask about the clips and get ignored. I would really like to have my interior looking mint again, that passenger panel flapping kinda ruins it.