Gauge cluster removal 68 Barracuda

Easily?? A grenade. I need to pull mine, and from the last 3 or 4 times I've done it, easy ain't in the vocabulary. Pigfucker is in the vocabulary, pardon my French. I'm dreading the Cirque du Soleil contortion act that is required, which is why I haven't done it in the past year, even though I need to.