I just thought this might help some else out.

First you have to unhook all the cables under the driver side floor board, then what I did was use a pair of needle nose pliers and a slid them over the cable where it comes though the floor brace and hit it with a rubber hammer to get the cable back through. Sorry no pics of that part.

Then I went under the dash and removed the return spring from the pin.
Then I removed the little cotter pin from the same pin that you had removed the spring...