Instrument Cluster - Disassembly

DISASSEMBLY

WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury on vehicles equipped with airbags, disable the Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) before attempting any steering wheel, steering column, airbag, seat belt tensioner, impact sensor, or instrument panel component diagnosis or service. Disconnect and isolate the battery negative (ground) cable, then wait two minutes for the system capacitor to discharge before performing further diagnosis or service. This is the only sure way to disable the SRS. Failure to take the proper precautions could result in accidental airbag deployment.

NOTE: Some of the components for the instrument cluster used in this vehicle are serviced individually. The cluster lens and the mask unit are serviced as a one piece assembly on the Dodge version, and on the Chrysler vehicles, the lens can be serviced separately. Following is the procedure for disassembling this component from the instrument cluster.

CLUSTER LENS






1. Disconnect and isolate the battery negative cable.
2. Remove the instrument cluster from the instrument panel.Instrument Cluster - Removal.
3. Working around the perimeter of the cluster, disengage each of the integral latch features that secure the top and sides of the cluster lens to the cluster hood and mask unit and to the cluster housing.
4. Remove the lens from the face of the cluster hood and mask unit.