I have the translucent film and I've disassembled my gauge cluster to the point where all that's left is to remove the tach and speedo needles; however, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to remove them to get the speedo face off, and I don't want to just yank on them for fear of breaking something. is there a trick to getting the needles off safely?

 

dinner/salad fork

 

and they just pop off from the front?

 

its how they work on the xA/xB's