Removing A/C evaporator - question???

I'm pulling the evaporator out of the HVAC box.
I have complete access to the evaporator as the box is out of the car and all that but the temperature probe wire is holding me up from pulling the evaporator out completely.

This wire is fixed at one end to the evaporator core and, at the other end, to an electric control switch outside the HVAC box. The wire passes thru a hold in the HVAC box so.......

........how do I get the evaporator out?

69 Barracuda, btw.