"Worse comes to worse a pair of cable pinch pliers applied behind the
glove box or under the heater diffuser panel near the floor should do
the trick."

I replaced mine 2 times without more than a few months of "hot-foot
relief so I put a valve on the heater hose behind and to the left of the
glove box, which works wonderfully.

Removing the dash gauge hood then the gauge cluster (4 phillips screws)
is very easy to do. The hardest part of that, in my experience, is pulling
the wire connectors off the back of the gauge panel, so you  can get to
the screws nearest the driver side of the cluster. Also, removing the
heater/fresh air control plastic plate so you can see into that part of
the controls, or to make adjustments to the cables at that end, is also
easy to do. May sound more daunting than anything, but very easy to
do. Once having done it a time or 2, it literally takes 5 minutes from
hood removal to cluster out. Be careful disconnecting the speedometer
cable as the clip can break if you're to physical with it.

bob

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