I just did this too, wanted to take it all apart and check everything, found a break in the wire and repaired. Unfortunately its now a bit short and knocks out one of the lamp sockets from that cheesy style they have.

Guess Ill have to redo the wire harness soon but at least its playable now.

I found easiest way to remove it (since i wanted to pull it fully apart) have the Buck all the way to the left and you can take off the 2 nuts then move it back to the right (but not all the way) and you can remove the small screw for the wire and the mech pulls right out through the top of the pf.