Yeah unfortunately if you need to do anything more than a surface rust repair, the entire dash chassis is spot welded into the cab. The only thing you can remove without drilling or cutting is the steering column/brake booster mount (on my to do list is mod and paint this thing). The Gen 1 dash pads look sooo much better in black, don't they? I did my column cover too while it was all apart. My '85 Gen 1 didn't have the feedback system for the carb.