gauges

Get a long screw driver and place it in the dash just above the cluster as you start to rock it out. There is a metal tab/bar that hangs down under the dash that will catch the wire harness bundle. Use the long screw driver to push the harness down to clear that tab/bar and the cluster should fall out. I discovered this hang up the first time I tried to take out my cluster.

did you take out steering column also