Okay here are the directions I used, taken from the 80's cool site (Actually the Birfield Archives). I think the writer made the job look much harder than it was, I just about laughed when it only took me 30 minutes. The only remotely difficult part was getting the four connectors disconnected/reconnected, but there was about 5 times as much room as when I did this on my BMW (BTW, I have pretty large hands).
Cary
1) Remove the lower panel. There are 5 screws that hold it in place.
Leave the thing hanging on the floor. Just watch out not to close the door
or
it may break if it gets jammed.
Easy job.
2) Tilt the steering wheel all the way down and remove the middle panel
by pulling on it. Remove all the connectors.
Hint: There are 4 pressure clips that hold it in place. Take a close look at
them, the way they work and the pieces.
Easy job.
3) Remove the two screws that are in the black plastic panel, upper portion,
Use a small screw driver.
Easy job.
4) Look at the black plastic panel. Look at the pressure clips on the second
panel that you took out. The black panel is now held in place by two
pressure
clips which are located in the lower left hand corner and lower right hand
corner. The one on the left comes out easy, just be careful. It snaps off.
Sort of easy job, if you didn't break the thing black plastic panel.
5) Go the the kitchen and take some aspirins, pray, relax for a while.
Not easy, you should be sweating now.
6) Now try to do the same thing on the right hand side. I dare you!!!!
The F#%&!! thing is stuck!!! You can't get your fingers in there because
the air duck is in the middle, there is a fold in the panel on top which
prevents you from removing it and the worst part, is that the metal clip
is stuck at the foam of the panel above the center console!!
I was about to give up, about to email the list. But then I said, if it
breaks,
tough, I'll buy a new one and I yanked it out.
I broke off the air duck and scratched the padding on the way out.
Note: Look for the metal clip. Mine almost fell into the AC control unit.
F#%&!! F#%&!! F#%&!! and more F#%&!! job!!!
7) Remove the four screws that hold the instrument cluster.
Easy job.
8) Relax a little bit. Look at your hands. Now look at the tires of your truck.
Which are bigger? You are about to experience that your hands are
bigger than those wheels!!!
Start sweating!!
9) Pull the cluster forward enough so you can remove all 5 connectors
in the back. It will not go forward much and you'll wonder how in
the world they got those connectors in!!
Hint: Each connector has a clip that you have to press to remove them.
 
O NOT pull from the wires.
Use your imagination with the tip of your fingers.
Try to shrink your hands or have somebody with small hands
to remove them.
F#%&!! and more double F#%&!! job!!!
10) Go for a long walk. Relax. Watch TV. Have a couple of beers.
Not easy. You're about to have a heart attack.
11) If you can figure out how to pull that F#%&!! and more F#%&!!ing
cluster out of there with out scraping it, or ruining the panel, etc.,
please let me know!!!!
The lower right hand corner hits the central console cluster, the right
hits the air duck, the top hits the padding, the bottom hits the steering
wheel plastic cover, the trip odometer reset hits the steering wheel.
Hint: You're on your own, man!!!!
You came this far, now finish it or you'll be taking the bus.
Contact bone yards for used ones, you'll need one after hitting it
with a hammer that you're so pissed off.
12) Putting it back is the reverse.
