I got motivated to fix this today. Since this thread was lacking in some photos, I snapped a few.
Here's what the glove-box looks like from behind:
Here's a close-up of the plate with the "U-bar":
I used a hot chisel tip to take off the "mushroomed plastic rivet" and placed three layers of body kit attachment tape, as no Popsicles were available, between the plate and the top of the glove-box frame to shorten the distance the "U-bar" sticks out the front:
Seems
much better after a reinstall and a quick test drive. All-in-all, not hard to remove the glove-box for better access to the plate - 8 T-25 screws I think. Also, don't forget to remove the lower molding piece above the passenger's floorboard first (it screws into the bottom of the glove-box frame) and unplug the two electrical connections for the glove-box and passenger floorboard lights as you remove the box from the dash.