dash/carpet removal

im removing the carpet for floor rust repair and i cant get the friggin rug out. do you have to remove the dash first?
what is this in my way???

the interior

help!

i took the carpet out of my parts truck and didn take the dash out. you have to remember that a 15 year old truck has alot of miles on the carpet and some could be melted underneath thus holding you to the floor. good luck

just cut the carpet right there as far back as you can with a razor, when building a car the carpet is one of the first interior panels so eerything surrounds it.

ok well then how do i get the dash out? i have all of the bolts out but i think the gauge cluster is holding it in, but i dont know how to get it out.

gauge cluster is lame be careful cuz you could brake youre speedo

there a post somewhere on here detailed pictures and everything hocbj will know where it is

im pretty sure that its your heater core holding the carpet in place, as stated jsut cut around it, thats what i did, you will never notice it up there especially once the radio housing is back in

yeah dont do that, that happened to me back in high school with my 91

you ought to bodydrop it while it's out.

u got this carpet out yet