Bug in Dash!

Don't know how it got in there, not sure if it's worth taking the dash apart either...

 

You're pic shows the entry point. Trip meter shaft .

You could get lucky with a shop vac and a reducer that would fit snugly in that area

 

Carefully pull the rubber grommet from around the trip meter reset shaft. Slide a straw connected/taped to a vaccum end and suck that guy out of there. Might want to wait until it dies so that he is on the "floor" of the dash cluster display. I did this with a dead fly. It works.

 

Wait it out, it will crawl off or fall off eventually.
I wouldn’t pull the cluster apart.

You could, use some compressed air to “blast” in at the trip button.
That beats sticking stuff in there that could potentially get stuck in there with the bug.

I’m still with, waiting it out.

 

Part out. Only reasonable option.

 

Wait till there is about 20 dead bugs to make it an adventure.

 

Pffft. This guy has been in my '98 Tacoma since 1999 and 200,000 miles ago