68 Dart damaged instrument cluster circuit board

Thanks everyone for your kind and very helpful feedback...

I have the column dropped properly, but actually, whilst it does help quite a bit, as a newby, I found it still very fiddly to remove the cluster. A lot of the issue is not ever having seen exactly where everything is behind there, it's very hard to know what's what, and to locate what you have to etc. Most of the time I was in there on my back trying to locate, disconnect wiring etc, whereas, I believe now I know where it mostly is, you can probably almost put it all back without attempting to be Houdini in the process! - I welcome others' thoughts on this, as I am only 5ft 7in, and quite fit, and it was quite a workout for me!
On another topic, can anyone shed light on why my turn signal/indicator bulbs might be missing out of my cluster? My car is a GT model with top of Fender mounted turn signals that display back to the driver as such, would that be why they simply deleted the dash signals on this particular model? I would actually like to have dash mounted signals too, if possible!
I will replace the damaged circuit board, maybe both, and maybe the IVR, and all bulbs whilst I'm there... thanks again everyone!