So now you have everything loose and ready to come apart? Well not quite. Now you need to reach up behind the speedo and loosen the speedo cable from the back of the gauge. Once you have that off, reach further up on the gauge cluster and locate the large wire loom that is clipped into the top right side of the cluster. Grab both sides of it and push the clips in and pull out. The plug will come out and now the cluster is free! Carefully pull the cluster out of the dash.
Now that you have that big cluster out of the way, you can see the inside of the dash. Take some time and look around, clean things up and make mental notes of how the wires are routed. I noticed some interesting things on mine. Can you spot the non stock "upgrade?"
Yeh A Super Mario soda can used as a heater vent tube? Thats gotta go!
With that in the trash, you can now take off the dash pad. It is too hard to get pics of this part of the process to turn out, but here is how its done. Feel directly under the dash pad and you will see there are threaded studs that stick down from the pad into the dash. On each of these are are speed nuts. You need to undo all of these, I believe there are 7 of them. Now on the front side of the dash pad are 4 screws that go through the pad and into the dash, Take those out and now you can pull the pad off.
