47-55.1 Replacing A Dash

[Dachshund]

Ok, so I have found a pretty good "low Rust" cab for my 1947 5 window. The only trouble is - someone in it's past life has put a homemade dash in it (good job - ugly dash). My question is - how hard would it be to remove the dash from my original "swiss cheese" cab, and put it in the "new" cab? I have seen the dashes for sale, but don't have the cash for one just yet. How feasible is it to remove mine, and put it in the other cab? Am I better off going with an aftermarket or should I attempt it.
I've done a search, and came up with anything from "easy", to "impossible"....

[mongocanfly]

its been done by several in the project section...got any pics of what your wanting to pull out?...

[Dachshund]

Originally Posted by mongocanfly

its been done by several in the project section...got any pics of what your wanting to pull out?...

I'm on a borrowed computer, so I couldn't do a thorough search (and I can't post photos). I have not seen the dash in person, but BIL has, and sent me a photo via Facebook. It looks like they bent a sheet of metal and installed it where the old dash was. It has a "flat face" the full width on the front (where the gauges would be). No openings for radio/gauges/etc have been cut yet.

[mr48chev]

The dash is held in with spot welds every few inches across the top lip an connected to the cab at a couple of spots on the upper kick panels.
You can either sit in the Swiss cheese cab and drill out spot welds or you could cut across the cowl , through the corners of the windshield frame just outside the ends of the dash and take it loose under the dash and take it into the work bench or saw horses and sit comfortably while you cut the spot welds out.

This shot of the inside of one of my cabs that I cut the dash out of for someone to salvage part of shows the bracket with the two bolts that hold the lower part of the dash (orange arrow). I don't think the side of the dash is fastened to the cab down that edge.