Glad to help. I made an entire new dash harness and it has been quite an adventure. On advice from Jim Lusk I put my console back in just for balancing the dash. With your windshield out you can loosen each pivot bolt, there is 1 each on pass and drive side. Leave them "snug ", then remove 5 from the top. Leave the middle one for the last. Extra hands would help but I did it on my own. Bubble wrapped a 4x4 and laid it across the console. That way when dash tips down, it doesnt tip down too far and drop out(its heavy). And it rests on bottom part of dash and NOT the bezel. You could use extra eyes at this point to watch wires, ducts, cables as you lower it down.
Like you I much prefer looking at the face of the dash as opposed to the bottom side.
Oh and once its lowered you can access a lot of stuff, BUT if you need to double chk your repairs for fitment etc, you can roll the dash back up into position and fasten with a screw or 2 to double check.
Good luck.
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