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Old Jun 6, 2006 | 12:45 PM
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Help With Restoring.....

..Is they any kind of book on the schematics for Interior disassembly for a TA or GTA? thx
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Old Jun 6, 2006 | 03:07 PM
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Yes. Pick yourself up a service manual. You can buy on for about 40 or 50 bucks at a swap meet.
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Old Jun 6, 2006 | 03:12 PM
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thank u
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Old Jun 6, 2006 | 04:36 PM
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If you need one quickly, most close parts stores carry the haynes and chilton manuals which also contain some decent schematics.
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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 09:36 AM
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Honestly, there's not one thing in the interior that isn't completely self-explanitory. The hardest thing to remove is the door panels, and you'll figure those out in 5 minutes.

Seats just unbolt and unplug (for GTA seats) and they're out.

Rear interior panels are all blatantly obvious.

Kick panels and door sills are obvious.

Center console is obvious if you take your time.

Headliner is obvious.

The door panels aren't obvious at first, but spend 5 minutes and you'll get it. GTA door panels are easier than the standard ones because they didn't hide anything behind any dummy-plates.

The only thing that's a bit challenging is the dash, but that's easy too if you take your time. Pull the radio & heater controls, pull the gauges, pull the dashpad off, pull & unhook all of the switches, then unbolt the dash and start pulling it. You'll have plenty of visibility to see what's behind it.

There's really nothing hard about the interior as long as you take your time and identify what's holding it together, which is usually as easy as unscrewing everything you see, then giving the piece a tug to see what else is holding it.
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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 11:33 AM
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Ya, I second what Jim85IROC said. On mine it was the first interior I completely stripped and didn't have to look at any diagrams once. Take your time to do it right if you don't have any kind of manual or book.
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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 12:31 PM
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Just take your time. Everything basically unscrews or unbolts. Except the door panels, those are clipped on.
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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 01:21 PM
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if you realy can't figure out the dash, follow the haynes/chiltons instructions for removing the heater core as the dash is part of that job. but yeah, i have pulled a few interiors out now and i never needed a manual.
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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 01:58 PM
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Thank u guys very much, just kinda scarey!!
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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 03:09 PM
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Dont need to pull the dash to do the heater core. :-)

U can do it in an hr or two all from the pass side :-) Just one bolt is a real PIA, but it saves a lot of dissasembly. Although the dashes arent that hard to pull either, just why if u dont have to.

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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by 88FBodyGTA
Thank u guys very much, just kinda scarey!!
No it isn't. Just take your time, and if necessary, as you remove parts, tape the screws right back into the holes they came out of so that you can keep track of them.
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Old Jun 12, 2006 | 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Jim85IROC
No it isn't. Just take your time, and if necessary, as you remove parts, tape the screws right back into the holes they came out of so that you can keep track of them.
I usually bag and label each seperate piece. In your case, the drivers seat screws in a ziploc bag with a label of "seat: drivers". Just a thought.
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