C3 Radio Removal Help Needed!!!!!!!

[twamd80driver]

Hello, I need some help removing my radio from my 1976. I have removed the A/C vents, removed all the screws around the trim, removed the clock knob, and removed the nuts from the radio shafts, but I cant get that trim to even wiggle. My 76 Service manual fails to address radio removal. Can someone PLEASE help?!!!! Thanks!

 

[pgtr]

I can't speak for 76s (somewhere around there they changed to new console design) per se but earlier C3s had two hidden nuts down in the bottom up close to teh shifer console area that had to be accessed - a real PITA. But the top part was pretty straightforward on earlier C3s. One warning at least if it's the early type - they are real skinny at the middle and break very easy! Dont' pry on it! This info should either be in the service manual or the assembly manual or both. Also look closely w/ a flashlight - there may some black screws kinda hidden up around the AC etc...

Hope that helps

 

[lucky76]

Hello, I need some help removing my radio from my 1976. I have removed the A/C vents, removed all the screws around the trim, removed the clock knob, and removed the nuts from the radio shafts, but I cant get that trim to even wiggle. My 76 Service manual fails to address radio removal. Can someone PLEASE help?!!!! Thanks!

I didn't know you could remove the radio without removing the console first. At least that's how I do mine. This is quite a job and looked impossible to remove without removing the console first. I then had to remove the screws on each side of the instrument cluster to get the radio out. There is a bracket under the instrument cluster that supports it and attaches the front of the console to the floor. I don't see how you can remove the cluster without removing the console.
Are you installing a new radio. I was given the original 76 am/fm radio in a box with my car, it's the largest thing you've ever seen. I don't know how the factory got it in there. Mine has a Panasonic am/fm cassette installed that works pretty good. I don't see any way to install a modern cd player radio without cutting the dash.
Are you trying to install a CD player radio?..........

 

[majortom75]

I didn't know you could remove the radio without removing the console first. At least that's how I do mine. This is quite a job and looked impossible to remove without removing the console first. I then had to remove the screws on each side of the instrument cluster to get the radio out. There is a bracket under the instrument cluster that supports it and attaches the front of the console to the floor. I don't see how you can remove the cluster without removing the console.
Are you installing a new radio. I was given the original 76 am/fm radio in a box with my car, it's the largest thing you've ever seen. I don't know how the factory got it in there. Mine has a Panasonic am/fm cassette installed that works pretty good. I don't see any way to install a modern cd player radio without cutting the dash.
Are you trying to install a CD player radio?..........

I'm with lucky. I replaced the tape deck that was in mine and pretty much followed the same procedure. I installed a CD player. There is a web site where you can order a custom cut bezel with an adaptor that allows you to fit a standard CD head unit in the dash. (or you can cut the bezel yourself) I kept the old bezel in case I ever wanted to sell it and a prospective buyer wanted the original bezel. Anyway, if you do a search for "cut bezel cd player", the original thread that mentioned the web site should be listed.

 

[SR'71]

Hello, I need some help removing my radio from my 1976. I have removed the A/C vents, removed all the screws around the trim, removed the clock knob, and removed the nuts from the radio shafts, but I cant get that trim to even wiggle. My 76 Service manual fails to address radio removal. Can someone PLEASE help?!!!! Thanks!

Your goal is to remove the radio? That the bezel [center consol] must be removed to afford the removal is dead on. You should also remove the the passenger side dash[more room, easy] Not EASY 2 3/8" nuts which bolt the bezel to the shift consol. You have to remove BOTH [driver/passenger] side panels in front of the shift consol. Then reach up inside to a point about an inch inside your radio knobs,within the metal bracket lives the 3/8" m_____s. And you said yours were tight. When you get the bezel loose, up/in and the radio lays on the tranny hump. PITA!