I started by drilling out the rivets on the panel:
Then it's a quick job to slide the three levers into the new faceplate and tighten everything down:
But I gotta have somewhere to PUT it. That means removing the blanking plates...
And all the foam around the blanking plates...
And the glovebox door...
Then the lower trim:
And all my knobs and doodads:
One of the knobs I needed to remove was the one you pull to open the fuel door. It's a simple knob connected to a cable. You have to unscrew one end of the cable and pull it out through the inside of the car. So, I popped open the door and started taking stuff out of the way.
Unfortunately, I didn't have a good enough grip on the little cable stop, and the freakin' cable snapped. Oh well, I'll jury-rig a quick fix in a bit. Lemme finish the dash first. More foam removed:
