Oh, it's not that bad. I started after work on Friday evening and it probably took about two hours to get everything disassembled. You see, I am kind of attacking two projects simultaneously. This whole thing started with a desire to replace my Bose amp and speakers once and for all. I have placed some MB Quart components in the doors and I am going to utilize the space where the subwoofer was to mount my amp. In fact, as of right now, the amp is in.
When I placed the new speakers in the doors, I noticed that the factory had four wires routed into each door that pertained to the stereo. Two were power and ground (a nice 14-gauge wire) and the other pair were pre-amp in wires which were about an 18-20 gauge. Since I was removing the in-door Bose amps, I elected to utilize the power/ground pair as my new speaker wire. The advantage was that I didn't have to route new wires into the doors (a major PITA), but I did have to get to the connector in each kick panel so that I could substitute my speaker-level in wires for the aforementioned power/ground wires. Per the FSM, it is required that you remove the dash to get at these connectors. BTW, even with the dash removed, the driver's side connector is a PITA to get at and work with. Thankfully, that is behind me now.
Anyway, the only way I rationalized to remove the dash (instead of just routing new speaker wires in) was so that I could replace the darn cracked trim panel.
I have some commitments today with the kids (going to Magic Mountain!) but hopefully I have a couple of hours this evening to start buttoning things up.