I want to remove the dash vents on my 88 Firebird to clean them out, but I can't figure out how to get the pass. side and driver's side vent directors out. I have done a little looking, and it appears that I will need to pull back the whole dash in order to remove these directors.

If anyone knows of another way to do this, please let me know soon because I will be trying this tomorrow hopefully.

Thanks
Tyler

 

You will need to take the whole dash out (you mean the ones on the far corners right?)
they are held in from behind with two 7mm screws each

 

That's what I was afraid of. I guess I will have to do that, or else fish something in through the directors, or else go in through the center vent. I think removing the whole dash is a lot of work for this little of a problem. I'll try my way, and if that doesn't work, I might have to do a little dash work.

Thanks for the help.

 

Have you tried blowing them out with a can of compressed air?

When my vents get dirty, I just blow them out with a can of Blow-Off and if the dust was too thick I've cleaned them out with a detailer's brush.

Hope this helps

 

Well, I think whoever had the car last didn't like taking the time to actually clean things. So they sprayed in there with the armoral or something. Because it is not a dry dust. It's kind of gooy and stuck to everything in there. I don't know if compressed air would work. I'd probably just use an air compressor to do it though. Has a lot more flow and dust removal abilities than a can. Anyway, thanks for the help. I figure, the air, a rag, along with a toothbrush and some WD-40 should pretty much take care of anything in there.