My pin was facing towards the driver.

I was able to pry the casing around the steering column enough so that I could see it (light shining up from beneath). There it was and I could depress it with a small diameter punch.

I was working on an SD and there was more crap in there than from the D that I removed the used part from.

Keep going (instrument cluster out) and you'll eventually get it.

Don

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