When I was doing my oddometer I broke the two tabs at the top above the speedometer where the cluster unit clips to. Those tabs are part of the face plate you look at around the speedometer. In my case it has that dark wood grain look to it.

My question is how to get that face place off, and if the top part is separate from the bottom or is it all one piece that goes all the way down around the ash tray? It looks like there is a seam in the middle where the top part is separate from the bottom, but I can not get it to losen from the bottom piece, and I have not been able to figure out how to get the whole thing out including the part around the ash tray, radio and climate controls?

 

It is part of the entire dash assembly.

 

I was afraid of that. I got it jury rigged and working. I put a samall block of wood behind the cluster which keeps the cluster pushed into the face plate. All the holes on the face plate are messed up too. Some of them don't seem to be doing anything. This has definitely been off before because I found some black tape on one of the corners. I was pretty sure I didn't mess up the holes. I got all all my gauges set just right and working fine. Had to take it out three times. Nice having two of them with the same dash so I could look and see where the gauges sit when it's not running.