In case I get motivated (will probably need to warm up) to fix the speedo needle that has broken off in my 84 300D, how do I remove the face plate (i.e. the clear plastic) from the instrument cluster? Can I leave the cluster in place?

When it comes to old, brittle plastic parts, I have the opposite of the Midas touch....I always break things.

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14 E250 Bluetec 4Matic "Sinclair", Palladium Silver on Black, 159k miles
06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 179k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver on Tan, 145k mi, wastegate conversion, ALDA delete

19 Honda CR-V EX 77k mi
Fourteen other MB's owned and sold
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